English is a stupid language

Janin

Evidence:

• We can redden things; we can blacken things; why can't we bluen things?
• Why do Capitonyms, Heteroynms, or Homophones even exist?
• Why is the polite non-gendered singular third-person pronoun "they"? Too bad I can't go around saying "somebody sent me an e-mail, but it hasn't replied yet".
• Who thought creating a word like "accessible" was in any way a good idea? Or "associative". Pick a letter, pick a pronunciation, stick with it! Playing "guess the sound" sucks.
• For that matter, why does "c" even exist? "k" and "s" do perfectly well. Ditto for "q" and "x".
• Why do people say irregardless do they just not have any functional brain cells gragle gragle gragle

AHH!

my balls got bluened

Homeless

I speak english

I like it okay

It's pretty expressive and you have a lot of words to choose from.

Rankenphile

drive on a parkway

park on a driveway

Meissnerd

We have C because otherwise cookie would be kookie and kookie is already kookie.

Garlic Bread

apparently English is a smart language and you're just too stupid to understand it

Sars_Boy

lol evry1 shud speak japanse cos it is so cool liek in animes

me and scarlet and ran r so awseome!

Janin

Meissnerd wrote: »

We have C because otherwise cookie would be kookie and kookie is already kookie.

cookie should be something like kukie anyway, because nobody pronounces it koo-key.

EDIT: Which brings up the whole goose/food/blood thing

Also, Sars, don't you go summoning K_A into my thread

Taramoor

We like english because it's fuckin' specific.

Janin

Taramoor wrote: »

We like english because it's fuckin' specific.

How do you change a broken light bulb?

First figure out what to change it into, then find a bulb that emits broken light.

Sars_Boy

jmillikin wrote: »

Meissnerd wrote: »

We have C because otherwise cookie would be kookie and kookie is already kookie.

cookie should be something like kukie anyway, because nobody pronounces it koo-key.

EDIT: Which brings up the whole goose/food/blood thing

Also, Sars, don't you go summoning K_A into my thread

katechm ash is so cool man

u r lame cos u dont liek animes

<3

English language is getting pretty weak.

Pb

jmillikin wrote: »

• Why do people say irregardless do they just not have any functional brain cells gragle gragle gragle

This might be giving them too much credit, but they're probably mixing up irrespective and regardless.

Janin

Pb wrote: »

jmillikin wrote: »

• Why do people say irregardless do they just not have any functional brain cells gragle gragle gragle

This might be giving them too much credit, but they're probably mixing up irrespective and regardless.

It's not a momentary slip-of-the-tongue thing - I've heard it spoken, seen it written, even abbreviated to irrgdls in text messages. I'm thinking they just mimic sounds smarter people make, as if they were halfway retarded parakeets.

Sars_Boy, you are small time

Air

ひらがな

CrossBuster

jmillikin wrote: »

Taramoor wrote: »

We like english because it's fuckin' specific.

How do you change a broken light bulb?

First figure out what to change it into, then find a bulb that emits broken light.

I actually laughed at that.

Quetzi

Has anyone here ever heard of some band called the Plasmatics?

Janin

Air wrote: »

ひらがな

Using Hira/katakana isn't such a good idea, considering how many more sounds English has than Japanese. The 104 English characters are bad enough already, it would be hell if every one had to be a consonant/vowel combination.

Sars_Boy

wait what

Homeless

wtf r u talking about

Barcardi

I am... concerned. This MTV talk is annoying, this New York crap is annoying, this whole LA lingo is annoying.

But on the other end Shakespeare is fucking annoying as well.

So torn.

Janin

Sars_Boy wrote: »

wait what

26 lower case, 26 upper case, plus cursive versions. (26 + 26) * 2 = 104

Homeless

yeah

and

uhh

what

Filler Inc.

your face is a stupid language.

Green

Greenen

Sars_Boy

jmillikin wrote: »

Sars_Boy wrote: »

wait what

26 lower case, 26 upper case, plus cursive versions. (26 + 26) * 2 = 104

ah

Evil Multifarious

jmillikin wrote: »

Evidence:

• We can redden things; we can blacken things; why can't we bluen things?
• Why do Capitonyms, Heteroynms, or Homophones even exist?
• Why is the polite non-gendered singular third-person pronoun "they"? Too bad I can't go around saying "somebody sent me an e-mail, but it hasn't replied yet".
• Who thought creating a word like "accessible" was in any way a good idea? Or "associative". Pick a letter, pick a pronunciation, stick with it! Playing "guess the sound" sucks.
• For that matter, why does "c" even exist? "k" and "s" do perfectly well. Ditto for "q" and "x".
• Why do people say irregardless do they just not have any functional brain cells gragle gragle gragle

"They," "them," and "their" as third person singular are not grammatically correct. It's just a common error like "irregardless" but even more prevalent.

Janin

Evil Multifarious wrote: »

"They," "them," and "their" as third person singular are not grammatically correct. It's just a common error like "irregardless" but even more prevalent.

they /ðeɪ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[they] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation,
–plural pronoun, possessive their or theirs, objective them.
1. nominative plural of he, she, and it.
2. people in general: They say he's rich.
3. (used with an indefinite singular antecedent in place of the definite masculine he or the definite feminine she): Whoever is of voting age, whether they are interested in politics or not, should vote.

Evil Multifarious

jmillikin wrote: »

Evil Multifarious wrote: »

"They," "them," and "their" as third person singular are not grammatically correct. It's just a common error like "irregardless" but even more prevalent.

they /ðeɪ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[they] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation,
–plural pronoun, possessive their or theirs, objective them.
1. nominative plural of he, she, and it.
2. people in general: They say he's rich.
3. (used with an indefinite singular antecedent in place of the definite masculine he or the definite feminine she): Whoever is of voting age, whether they are interested in politics or not, should vote.

Dictionary definitions include common usage. Irregardless is in the dictionary.

Janin

Does anybody have a good "Nerd Fight!!!" image macro? I seem to have lost mine.

Evil Multifarious wrote: »

Dictionary definitions include common usage. Irregardless is in the dictionary.

But are typically marked with a note about being nonstandard.

irregardless wrote:

Usage note: Irregardless is considered nonstandard because of the two negative elements ir- and -less. It was probably formed on the analogy of such words as irrespective, irrelevant, and irreparable. Those who use it, including on occasion educated speakers, may do so from a desire to add emphasis. Irregardless first appeared in the early 20th century and was perhaps popularized by its use in a comic radio program of the 1930s.

Contrast to the note for they:

they wrote:

Usage note: Long before the use of generic he was condemned as sexist, the pronouns they, their, and them were used in educated speech and in all but the most formal writing to refer to indefinite pronouns and to singular nouns of general personal reference, probably because such nouns are often not felt to be exclusively singular: If anyone calls, tell them I'll be back at six. Everyone began looking for their books at once. Such use is not a recent development, nor is it a mark of ignorance. Shakespeare, Swift, Shelley, Scott, and Dickens, as well as many other English and American writers, have used they and its forms to refer to singular antecedents. Already widespread in the language (though still rejected as ungrammatical by some), this use of they, their, and them is increasing in all but the most conservatively edited American English. This increased use is at least partly impelled by the desire to avoid the sexist implications of he as a pronoun of general reference.

Thaox

In italian we don't even use the letter x.

Or K.

Or y....

Janin

Thaox wrote: »

In italian we don't even use the letter x.

Or K.

Or y....

Italy is totally a rocking place. Three cheers for gelato.

Thaox

jmillikin wrote: »

Thaox wrote: »

In italian we don't even use the letter x.

Or K.

Or y....

Italy is totally a rocking place. Three cheers for gelato.

Don't forget the wine!

wombat

I think english is pretty okay


it gets me by

jimninja

beigen
tealen
maroonen
pucen

Just Like That

Yes, the English language is retarded. Mouse --> Mice, House --> Houses, etc. I guess it sounds pretty balanced though... aurally, I mean. I would hate to have to learn it as a second language.

Shurakai

Modern english is pretty much every language mashed together, historically at least. I'm glad I was born into it and didn't have to learn it later in life.

Ronjon

in english "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo" is a completely grammarical sentence.

as in buffalo (the city) buffalo (the animal) buffalo (Verb, to puzzle) buffalo (the animal again)

IpseDixit

Brownen
Burgandyen
Ticklemepinken

Shurakai

Grammatical.

Abracadaniel

Rankenphile wrote: »

drive on a parkway

park on a driveway

damnit rank!

Also, onomonopoetic is one of my favoritest words.