Does American screw you up?

[TheEarl]

Next, you'll be telling me that "Bee" should be "Bed"....

You English are full of shit.

So is F pronounced Fee? Or H prounounced Hee? Is J pronounced Jee?

Try stopping the American alphabet at Z. You can't - it's so much more natural to keep going. Whereas the English alphabet:

Double-u, Eh eh ex, y and zed. Full stop. No need for superfluous trailer sentences like "Now I've learned my abc, won't you come and play with me."

The Earl

 

[Couture]

I imagine you English are the root of the problem with ef and double u too, but you can't expect us Americans to fix everything, can you?

Now, if only I can figure a way to remember how many pounds are in a ton.

 

[Couture]

No need for superfluous trailer sentences like "Now I've learned my abc, won't you come and play with me."

The Earl

BTW, we don't need to end it that way. We can end it with Zee, just as easy. The reason for the ending is that we don't allow our children to play until they've learned their abc's.

 

[TheEarl]

I imagine you English are the root of the problem with ef and double u too, but you can't expect us Americans to fix everything, can you?

Now, if only I can figure a way to remember how many pounds are in a ton.

Fix is a pejorative word when it comes to language. As I said, the only 'fixed' language I know of is Esperanto. And that's a sterile, dead language.

That's why color and check leave me so cold.

The Earl

 

[Songcatcher]

Fix is a pejorative word when it comes to language. As I said, the only 'fixed' language I know of is Esperanto. And that's a sterile, dead language.

That's why color and check leave me so cold.

The Earl

Do you fancy a pint in London this Saturdee?

 

[hotchkiss]

Esperanto! the only person in the known universe that speaks that is Arnold J Rimmer and he's a hologram!

As for pounds in a ton does he not realise the U. K. went metric years ago!

Every one knows the English language is well screwed up and complicated. It was made much SIMPLER by the Americans so they could understand it.

 

[Lisa Denton]

Call it snobbery; I just cannot even think about writing another way. Even if I moved to America, I'd write my cheques with a que.

The Earl

Snob.

Cash or credit card, no cheques accepted.

Hahahahahahahahahaahhahahahhahhahahahhahahah!!!!!!

 

[smartnsassy]

I thought this was another anti-american pinko commie rant thread.




Dang!

 

[TheEarl]

Snob.

Cash or credit card, no cheques accepted.

Hahahahahahahahahaahhahahahhahhahahahhahahah!!!!!!

<slips Lisa a tenner>

The Earl

 

[Liar]

Next, you'll be telling me that "Bee" should be "Bed"....

You English are full of shit.

Full of shite, you mean?

Question: Isn't Zee pronouned the same way as Cee? At least they are in my ears easily confused. Doesn't that add incertainty when trying to spell out stuff?

And btw, since "check" is already a verb, isn't it kind of practical to spell "cheque" instead?

 

[Lisa Denton]

<slips Lisa a tenner>

The Earl

WTF is a tenner?

Hey bucko, I am not for sale, that was a example of how businesses have signs sayin no checks. Ten hundreds don't even get you a kiss with me........... but if you try for free ..............

 

[~photoguy~]

i didnt realize it until now ... the Canadian spelling for cheque is the same as the British ...

and we Canucks also add "u" to a bunch of words like "colour"

the SI International (metric) way of writing a date is to start from the largest unit on the left and work to the smallest:

2005-01-26 11:15.22 the year is largest ... and you can progress all the way down to the tiniest measure of time moving from left to right ... seems totally logical ... I can NEVER figger out how the Americans can decrypt the date, if the date is less than 12... I'm lost

so endeth the lesson

 

[cantdog]

Poussin, French has no advantage. Septante and nonante-- these sensible ideas get only derision. And French has its "southern" accents, too. African Francophone vowels! And the French they speak in Canada is nearly as odd as lowland Scots.

I find the whole thing quite delicious, but then I delight in the niggling distinctions of arcana.

 

[English Lady]

Full of shite, you mean?

Question: Isn't Zee pronouned the same way as Cee? At least they are in my ears easily confused. Doesn't that add incertainty when trying to spell out stuff?

And btw, since "check" is already a verb, isn't it kind of practical to spell "cheque" instead?

*grins* I like the way you think Liar!


www.bruce...well doing the date thing from year to day I can get. How the americans got it that way though I dunno *L*

 

[Poussin]

.....

 

[NoJo]

Esperanto! the only person in the known universe that speaks that is Arnold J Rimmer and he's a hologram!

As for pounds in a ton does he not realise the U. K. went metric years ago!

Every one knows the English language is well screwed up and complicated. It was made much SIMPLER by the Americans so they could understand it.

I actually sat next to a very strange looking guy on the Underground last week who was reading printouts of his emails which I recognized were in Esperanto. (It looks a bit like Latin, but it uses 'K's instead of 'C's and 'KW' instead of 'QU').

And I have to agree about Americanized spelling. Definitely a (minor) improvement in simplicity.

My spelling is ok, but I make lots of typos, so I rely on my MS Word spellchecker a lot. For my last story, which is very British in style, I switched from my US to my UK spellchecker.

 

[sweetnpetite]

A BED SAID DEAD ED EFF JED AECH EYE JAY KAY EL EM EN OH PED KYU ARE ESS TED YOU VED DOUBLE-YOU EX WHY ZED

 

[Boxlicker101]

Oh and "Aloominum" is a sensible way to prounounce things?

Al-u-min-i-um. There's two i's in it.

The Earl

"Aluminum is pronounced just the way it's spelled, with a long U and one I. Most words in American English are spelled the way they're pronounced, unlike "Worcester".

OU is a dipthong and is pronounced like "our" You say "color" not "colowr" don't you? If you are speaking of a sixty minute period, you donlt call it an "er" do you?

 

[TheEarl]

Boxlicker: I hate to say this, but you do not spell it Aluminum. It's spelt Aluminium. It has the same ending as Sodium or Cadmium.

It's not about the simple 'it should be prounced the way it's spelt.' If it was, you should really be speaking Bislama (language based on English, but with uniform spelling and no irregulars. Used in the Pacific Islands).

No, you're speaking American. Which still makes absolutely no sense and has confusing rules and lots of exceptions. The difference between English and American is that we allowed ours to flow naturally. You tried to constrain yours.

The Earl

 

[Boxlicker101]

Boxlicker: I hate to say this, but you do not spell it Aluminum. It's spelt Aluminium. It has the same ending as Sodium or Cadmium.

It's not about the simple 'it should be prounced the way it's spelt.' If it was, you should really be speaking Bislama (language based on English, but with uniform spelling and no irregulars. Used in the Pacific Islands).

No, you're speaking American. Which still makes absolutely no sense and has confusing rules and lots of exceptions. The difference between English and American is that we allowed ours to flow naturally. You tried to constrain yours.

The Earl

Actually, either spelling of Al is correct, depending on the context. Why is it that "schedujle" is pronounced with a soft CH but no other word is, except those that have been incorporated from German or Yiddish? Actually, English, either the American version or the Quen's style, is confusing because it has been cobbled together from so many other languages, including the idiocyncracies of those others, and this is still going on. "Tsunami", from Japanese, seems to have replaced "tidal wave". At least the verbs are fairly regular, compared to other languages.