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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Oct 8, 2011 22:43:47 GMT -5
If there's anything I find offensive, it's that people like to parrot "English is subjective" when they know damn well they're omitting that "to a certain extent" for the sake of not conceding the point. Or perhaps it's because the "to a certain extent" qualifier is so obvious that it goes without saying. Of course there are limitations on the degree of accepted variance within the language. No one has said anything to the contrary. |
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Post by malicious_bloke on Oct 9, 2011 7:04:17 GMT -5
People who think that english is subjective are usually totally racist against the letter "u" and favour an affirmative action program promoting unqualified "z"s at the expense of perfectly servicable "s"es.
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Post by malicious_bloke on Oct 9, 2011 7:05:49 GMT -5
Also how hard is it to work out that "momentarily" is the adverb form of "momentary" and not a synonym for "imminently"?
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Oct 9, 2011 7:09:38 GMT -5
Well, we favour multiculturalism here in Canada, so we kept most of the the Us, added Zs to some words, and retained the Ss in others. Then we stuck the Us and Ss on reservations.
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Post by Vene on Oct 9, 2011 8:47:15 GMT -5
I say we should do away with "c" and use "s" or "k" instead.
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Post by Jodie on Oct 9, 2011 8:52:25 GMT -5
But then how will anyone write the word "fuck" Vene?
Fuk just isn't the same!
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Oct 9, 2011 8:53:40 GMT -5
Better yet, have C represent the "ch" sound.
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Post by Vene on Oct 9, 2011 8:56:31 GMT -5
Better yet, have C represent the "ch" sound. I don't see why "kh" wouldn't work. And while we're at it, we should also replace "ph" with "f." |
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Post by malicious_bloke on Oct 9, 2011 11:45:24 GMT -5
lets just do away with letters entirely and go back to grunting and clubbing each other to death
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Post by SCarpelan on Oct 9, 2011 12:46:58 GMT -5
At least for me as someone for whom English is only a second language the vowels are more annoying than the consonants. I'm specially referring to having two vowels to represent a single sound. I've acquired a large part of my English vocabulary by reading English literature and not being certain about how some words are pronounced because of unnecessarily complicated pronunciation rules gets annoying sometimes.
The English language would lose nothing by simplifying the pronunciation practices so that there is only one way to pronounce each given combination of letters and any given sound would be presented by a single letter if possible with the current alphabet.
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on Oct 9, 2011 20:21:32 GMT -5
...not being certain about how some words are pronounced because of unnecessarily complicated pronunciation rules gets annoying sometimes. Rules? Regarding the whole u thing... Why do I want a superfluous u in my words? |
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Post by Dragon Zachski on Oct 10, 2011 5:55:21 GMT -5
...not being certain about how some words are pronounced because of unnecessarily complicated pronunciation rules gets annoying sometimes. Rules? Regarding the whole u thing... Why do I want a superfluous u in my words? Why don't you want a superfluous u in your words? After all, colour and armour look so much cooler than color and armor. And aluminium is a much better word than aluminum. My spellcheck is racist against Britain. |
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Post by Vene on Oct 10, 2011 10:16:11 GMT -5
Rules? Regarding the whole u thing... Why do I want a superfluous u in my words? Why don't you want a superfluous u in your words? After all, colour and armour look so much cooler than color and armor. And aluminium is a much better word than aluminum. My spellcheck is racist against Britain. Because superfluous, it is a waste of a character and adds nothing of concrete value (ascetics are highly subjective). Oh, and you can probably change your spellchecker's settings for British English. |
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Post by Dragon Zachski on Oct 10, 2011 10:48:00 GMT -5
I was being humorous
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on Oct 10, 2011 15:11:05 GMT -5
Rules? Regarding the whole u thing... Why do I want a superfluous u in my words? Why don't you want a superfluous u in your words? After all, colour and armour look so much cooler than color and armor. And aluminium is a much better word than aluminum. My spellcheck is racist against Britain. Having it stick "ou" in there makes it look like it should be pronounced colore. Or colur. As in double o. Like in the word doom. As I said, superfluous u. |
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