WTF english and false synonyms

[Sid]

English sucks and never makes any sense. I'm glad I learned it as a native speaker because holy crap I feel sorry for anyone trying to learn it as an adult.

Of course I will never be able to write English literature, but learning English as a second language to a reasonable degree (meaning to be able to communicate in that language) really wasn't that hard at all for me.
English is quite a logical language for the Dutch, Germans, Danes and Swedes.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Building on your earlier observation about H, I've heard both "a historic occasion" and "an historic occasion".

"H" is tricky because it can blend into a following vowel sound (hour) or it can be a distinct consent sound (historic) which is even more complicated because some English dialects drop "H" sounds from time to time. In this case, the rule is whatever floats your goat.

 

[Free]

Just remember: pie is not a type of cake, and vice versa. THEY ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Just remember: pie is not a type of cake, and vice versa. THEY ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.

Where is your God now?

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Yinz ain't even got to "youns" yet, didja? Did I miss it?

 

[WolfEyes]

Yinz ain't even got to "youns" yet, didja? Did I miss it?

I'm still waiting (12 years and counting) to hear someone in Oregon say that. Troy swears it's still used here but mostly by folks out in the sticks. Guess we aren't far enough out in the sticks yet.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

I don’t consider “Y’all” and “Yous” to be bad grammar. They are patching a problem with english and I commend that.

I had family that grew up in Chicago. One of them used Youse all the time., only in verbal form, of course, not written. It was so odd to me, to hear that despite also being in the midwest, and I don't really hear it among younger Chicagoans (She was aged,, as she was my great aunt). It may have been a function of both her time period and location. Even though a northerner, I am partial to y'all.

 

[Nadeja]

So... an young and a young person are both technically correct although only a young person sounds correct.

That happens because Y doesn't represent just a sound, but it's used arbitrarily to represent different sounds. A vocalic sound ( as in myth pronounced /mɪθ/ ), a diphthong (my /maɪ/) but also sounds that aren't really vocals Young /jʌŋ/ or Yes /jɛs/ . You could imagine those words written as: meeth, mi, joung. Thus: "a joung"... That's why "a young person" sounds correct.

 

[Lady Darnk Juniorette]

English is of suck, makeshift and stolen the words of other lands mashed up forming an abomination of sounds.

Oh and same sounding words with diff spellings and meanings are facking annoying.

 

[WolfEyes]

English is of suck, makeshift and stolen the words of other lands mashed up forming an abomination of sounds.

Oh and same sounding words with diff spellings and meanings are facking annoying.

Are those brains your avatar is eating and is she pulling them out of her ass?

Reminder: I know very little about anime. Ok. I know virtually nothing about anime. It's not my thing.

 

[Lady Darnk Juniorette]

Are those brains your avatar is eating and is she pulling them out of her ass?

Reminder: I know very little about anime. Ok. I know virtually nothing about anime. It's not my thing.

yes and not anime , it's from a video game, shantae half genie hero.

 

[Kalel]

English is of suck, makeshift and stolen the words of other lands mashed up forming an abomination of sounds.

Oh and same sounding words with diff spellings and meanings are facking annoying.

Excuse me but there is no excuse for this..
i sense you are not content with this content.
i need to read what i read again.

Data vs data
object and object
minute and minute

someone should wind up this post and throw it in the wind

 

[WolfEyes]

yes and not anime , it's from a video game, shantae half genie hero.

EW!

That's another one that the meaning has changed with time. Video games.

This is what we always called video games:

Before those there were these (Tennis for Two on a DuMont Lab oscilloscope):

 

[Lady Darnk Juniorette]

EW!

That's another one that the meaning has changed with time. Video games.

This is what we always called video games:

Before those there were these (Tennis for Two on a DuMont Lab oscilloscope):

Well what's a zombie supposed to eat??? also graphics have come a long way since donkey kong.

 

[WolfEyes]

Well what's a zombie supposed to eat??? also graphics have come a long way since donkey kong.

I wasn't ewing at the brain. I was ewing at where it came from (her ass). lol

 

[Lady Darnk Juniorette]

I wasn't ewing at the brain. I was ewing at where it came from (her ass). lol

Well I assume it's more like a cartoon "hammer from behind outta nowhere" type of thing

 

[Essence Lumin]

On the one hand, it can be annoying. On the other hand, semantic drift is how languages evolve and grow. And on the gripping hand, if the alternative is an Academie de France type situation, I can live with literally meaning figuratively.

Myficals, myficals, myficals
I want to ride my myficals, myficals
I want to ride my myficals
I want to ride my myf
I want to ride my myficals
I want to ride it where I like

 

[Essence Lumin]

All I have to say about y'all of this is moral is a mushroom and whatever that atrocity Jopsy post whiles ago was probably cut and pasted from reddit.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Note how your quote makes a slight of hand

sleight?

 

[Essence Lumin]

One problem of this sort of thread is to make sure you are speaking perfect language according to a professor or to be mocked (and not care).