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  • MattCameronKicksButt
    MattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    chadwick wrote:
    that's true even for those of us who were born
    into an english speaking country.

    college level english taught by a gammar nazi (they refer to themselves as such)
    is so out of control it is unreal how difficult it can be

    professors like that are brilliant, dry, rigid, and pretty fuckin boring

    That's true! It's proven on here. Myself included.

    Although it was more of a question. That's just what I've been told. :)
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    Drop The Leash 10 wrote:
    if we didnt have silent letters than the world world be nuts.
    ...and German. :)
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  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    ya when did colonel = kernal ?
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  • prism
    prism Posts: 2,440
    i kNOw what you mean :);)
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    english is a complex language made up of words from other languages as well as its own. it morphs with the times as it absorbs these foreign words. we take it for granted cause weve lived with it since weve been in the womb.
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  • vedder_soup
    vedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    catefrances wrote:
    english is a complex language made up of words from other languages as well as its own. it morphs with the times as it absorbs these foreign words. we take it for granted cause weve lived with it since weve been in the womb.
    yes im a nerd and yes i love the english language. :D

    There their... we will not hold that against you :rolleyes:
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    vedder_soup wrote:
    There their... we will not hold that against you :rolleyes:

    :p
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    dunkman wrote:
    silent letters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    knife???

    pneumatic?

    gnome?

    numb?



    totally pointless!!!



    are you discriminating against the silent? bigot!!
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    cutback wrote:
    are you discriminating against the silent? bigot!!



    phuck the silent!!!


    Fins would know this shit... but he's in Ireland... performing lobotomies no doubt.
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • illegal pants
    illegal pants Posts: 13,471
    stupid English language!!!

    my Greek family still struggles with it (after how many years in Australia?) says it really is fucked..

    hehehe
    wah
  • Collin
    Collin Posts: 4,931
    MattCameronKicksButt wrote:
    English is apparently one of the most difficult languages to learn?

    Everyone says that about their native language.

    It's all relative.
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  • pjfan31
    pjfan31 Posts: 7,335
    I tried to convince my year 5 teacher that pneumonia did not start with a P. I lost that argument.
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  • Jennytree
    Jennytree Posts: 5,340
    Well, if the English didn't feel the need to take over the whole world years ago then we wouldn't have this problem, now would we?!
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  • jrd
    jrd Posts: 3,060
    Jennytree wrote:
    Well, if the English didn't feel the need to take over the whole world years ago then we wouldn't have this problem, now would we?!

    everyone tried to take over the world... ;)

    well, OK, the English, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese did...
    and...anyone else ? suppose you could say the Danes (lumping together Denmark, Sweden, Norway 'cause i don't know any better, sorry :o) ) tried before that, so for some reason the English were at the right place at the right time...

    so 'English' is currently the most spoken/learnt language, or is it ? should we all be learning Spanish ? Chinese/Mandarin ? ... Esperanto ?

    feck the Gaelic... :D
    Oh yeah? Well, I've had about enough of morons and halfwits, dolts, dunces, dullards and dumbbells - and you chowderhead yokel, you blithering hayseed, you - you've had enough of me?
  • Jennytree
    Jennytree Posts: 5,340
    jrd wrote:
    everyone tried to take over the world... ;)

    well, OK, the English, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese did...
    and...anyone else ? suppose you could say the Danes (lumping together Denmark, Sweden, Norway 'cause i don't know any better, sorry :o) ) tried before that, so for some reason the English were at the right place at the right time...

    so 'English' is currently the most spoken/learnt language, or is it ? should we all be learning Spanish ? Chinese/Mandarin ? ... Esperanto ?

    feck the Gaelic... :D
    Well chinese mandarin is the most commonly spoken language in the world, and they didn't have to take it over to do so :p They just got it oooon... see, English people... less war, more love :D
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  • failedpersephone
    failedpersephone Posts: 3,424
    I say we pronounce all silent letters...that'll show the bastids!
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  • Snake
    Snake Posts: 2,605
    failedpersephone wrote:
    I say we pronounce all silent letters...that'll show the bastids!
    We'll start a revolution!

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  • petrocs
    petrocs Posts: 4,342
    I say ban em...we dont need em...like pennies!
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Silent letters enrich our language Duncan.
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  • Jennytree
    Jennytree Posts: 5,340
    why are most of the silent letters before the letter 'n'?
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