You're born, you take poo. You get out in the world, you take more poo. You climb a little higher, you take less poo. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what poo even looks like
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« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2011, 01:11:46 PM »
The English language is absolutely awful and is so complex and convoluted it is untrue. It's almost like some really PITA person made it up as they went along (like me) just to annoy people and purposely trip them up\make them look stupid\sneer at them etc...
but why "sleep" and "speak"? why not "sleap" and "speek"??
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You're born, you take poo. You get out in the world, you take more poo. You climb a little higher, you take less poo. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what poo even looks like
The English language is absolutely awful and is so complex and convoluted it is untrue. It's almost like some really PITA person made it up as they went along (like me) just to annoy people and purposely trip them up\make them look stupid\sneer at them etc...
Strange how many people around the world manage to cope with it.. Doesn't say much for the British education system that many come through it with only a basic grasp of it. Err, like innit, kno wot i meen. yer kno.
But if you think English complex, try German, Chinese ain't too easy either.
Strange how many people around the world manage to cope with it.. Doesn't say much for the British education system that many come through it with only a basic grasp of it. Err, like innit, kno wot i meen. yer kno.
I would 100% not employ anyone under the age of about 30ish, mainly due to the fact none of them have the first idea about the basics of English that most grown ups learnt when they were 5.
I would 100% not employ anyone under the age of about 30ish, mainly due to the fact none of them have the first idea about the basics of English that most grown ups learnt when they were 5.
I find German easier, it looks more complicated but it is more logical.
It's the grammar that's a bit of a kicker with German.
It's the grammar that's a bit of a kicker with German.
I never really noticed, just sort of picked it up from the start. I started German when I was 10\11 if that and have forgotten most of it as I don;t use it enough. After speaking to quite a few German people recently though who have explained some of the nuances of German grammar I wish I'd have continued on with it as it seems I was actually pretty good with it!
Its the Edwardians and Victorians that made the written English language so difficult, there have been many proposals to change the written language to be written the same as it sounds, as yet none have been sucsessful. Mind you back in the Tudor (I think) times we some of our s's were replaced with f's Kings lived in Caftles instead of Castles
Its the Edwardians and Victorians that made the written English language so difficult, there have been many proposals to change the written language to be written the same as it sounds, as yet none have been sucsessful. Mind you back in the Tudor (I think) times we some of our s's were replaced with f's Kings lived in Caftles instead of Castles
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« Reply #12 on: May 14, 2011, 04:11:48 PM »
i studied german in past as well. some years back i was able to communicate in german. then two yrs later i still understood but i had to reply in engrish. two years more and i didn't understand it anymore. last autumn i found the words again and was able to do most of the communication in german.
it is just the exemptions in exemptions that cooked me. there is ALWAYS an abnormality which you don't remember of. super kühle. LMAO
(just in case you don't know that before 1809 coldshire was eastern part of sweden) in 16th century the written language was a mess of german/swedish/coldshirish/russian/engrish. still you can find locals on the shore that speak this bullshit. and it is still nearly impossible to communicate from the shore to inland due to language, eventhough we "all" (natives) speakcoldshirish.
though i was on a training course in Slough (had to ask how to pronounce it) and there was two welsh mates there as well. coordinator was canadian. when the welsh asked him i thought they were speaking french. then i realised it is not french either. took half an hour to get my ear tuned for welsh. i guess they did their best as well in speaking. LOL
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« Reply #14 on: May 14, 2011, 04:23:33 PM »
IIRC Latin had no "TH" so we used Ye as The. Several other instances are the same for a lot of the older spelling. Cannot find the link , but looked at this to assist one of my sons in some homework.
Ahh found one bit, http://kappi.altervista.org/ITA/scuola/english/old-english-pronuntiation.pdf
Always fancied doing German, they gave me Latin and French instead! Never used the Latin. can get about a bit with French but only because I had to do a few demos to French residents, so picked it up for what I needed. Also used to translate user manuals, nowdays you can get multi lingual anyway.
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