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[izy]

The English language is tough

The Two Ronnies - Four Candles - YouTube

We are lucky to have google translate )

 

[zlobby]

We are lucky to have google translate )

Actually, for once Bing translator is ahead this time.

 

[QuietBob]

English pronunciation can be fun!

 

[Why_Me]

The English language is tough

The Two Ronnies - Four Candles - YouTube

The Brits are a trip. The further north you travel the tougher it is to understand them. Then you have the Aussies and New Zealanders who beat the h3ll out of every vowel like fingernails across a chalkboard. Then you have the Americans in New England who never got taught the letter 'R' in the alphabet not to mention American southerners who have their own dialect that's damn near impossible to understand.

 

[laszlo]

use free online proofreading ; costs nothing and at least we can joke/laugh if are mistakes

 

[hristohh]

You'd think English was difficult and it should be according to that link but if it was so complicated how does the rest of the world manage to master English so easily. I have a theory on that. If you look at the central and eastern European languages such as the Slavic languages and the Turkic languages (Hungarian, Estonian and Finnish) ... those languages are harder than h3ll to learn. So I'm thinking English is nothing to them after they've mastered their own native language. On the western European side ... Old English is a Germanic language that derives from Old Frisian hence the reason the likes of the Germans and Dutch master English so quickly.

Neither Hungarian, nor Finnish, nor Estonian are Turkic languages. They are all Uralic. This is a whole different family of languages than the Indo-European group all other major languages spoken in Europe belong to.
As a non-native speaker of English I think the "easy" part of the language comes from the almost total lack of gendered words, the very few forms of verbs (3rd person single and everything else is the same) and the very few remnants of grammatical cases. For example almost all slavic languages bar Bulgarian have all of these things. Bulgarian has only remnants of cases but has two different plurals for many words - one for when you count and another when you say there are many without specifying the number.

 

[zlobby]

Edit: damn embedding...

I am a grammar nazi. Well.. maybe not that extreme. I correct anyone who uses poor or incorrect grammar under my roof much to the annoyance of everyone. It’s a bad habit. The same goes for spelling. I usually won the class spelling bee.. a girl beat me once. She was pretty smart though, maybe even smarter than me.. but shh. There is always going to someone smarter than you anyways right?

I actually wanted to be an English teacher when I was younger.. I should have followed through with it, but nearly half of a lifetime of poor choices awaited me instead lol.. yay..




An editor.

For instance lol..

I am not trying to single you out, it’s just an example

Reminds me of:

Also, meanwhile me:

 

[VSG]

Careful now

 

[TheLostSwede]

Careful now

What? That's perfectly fine, none rude British English.

 

[QuietBob]

Edit: damn embedding...


Reminds me of:

Also, meanwhile me:

Season 3 episode 12. The way some words are spelled/spelt in English can be surprising indeed

 

[zlobby]

Season 3 episode 12. The way some words are spelled/spelt in English can be surprising indeed

Kroxldyphivc comes to mind.

Careful now

I speak of this:

And this:

Neither Hungarian, nor Finnish, nor Estonian are Turkic languages. They are all Uralic. This is a whole different family of languages than the Indo-European group all other major languages spoken in Europe belong to.
As a non-native speaker of English I think the "easy" part of the language comes from the almost total lack of gendered words, the very few forms of verbs (3rd person single and everything else is the same) and the very few remnants of grammatical cases. For example almost all slavic languages bar Bulgarian have all of these things. Bulgarian has only remnants of cases but has two different plurals for many words - one for when you count and another when you say there are many without specifying the number.

Thanks, beat me to it!

 

[lexluthermiester]

nuqnaq

maja'chuqtaHvIS, bIqaSchugh. ghu' qaS Hoch. yIDo'!

 

[zlobby]

The Brits are a trip. The further north you travel the tougher it is to understand them. Then you have the Aussies and New Zealanders who beat the h3ll out of every vowel like fingernails across a chalkboard. Then you have the Americans in New England who never got taught the letter 'R' in the alphabet not to mention American southerners who have their own dialect that's damn near impossible to understand.

Southerners really loved me as I could easily understand them even though it was pretty obvious I was not one of them.

maja'chuqtaHvIS, bIqaSchugh. ghu' qaS Hoch. yIDo'!

Meh, Sardukar anyone? Especially the throat chants.

 

[maxfly]

The British were easy for me to understand (London) for the day I was there but I made the mistake of stopping into a Edinburg pub once... once, after a 14or16hr flight. I couldn't understand a friggin word the barkeep said. He got so frustrated with me he gave me the wtf, are you retarded angry frown? So I just told him to give me whatever light ALE was on tap (I'm not a drinker). It was really good Made the mistake of saying whatevers on tap without the ale part before. Yeah. Got some brown, thick, foamy, nasty mess for my trouble. That barkeep laughed himself to the john watching my first gag drink.

Back on topic, sorry.
Proofreader. Very boring work but equally honorable and extremely important.
I take great pride in my grammar but the older I get the more I find myself relying on spell check! Hahaha

 

[caroline!]

Same basic thing about "Football" in that some across the pond from here call it "Hand Egg" and that's reasonable.
You have Soccer, Rugby and Hand Egg, all of which are different inspite of the name.
BTW I'm looking foward to watching some Hand Egg later...

Americans call their sport football despite the fact they're obviously using their hands and the thing they throw at each other isn't even NEARLY orbicular.

 

[StefanM]

Did you already ask Adriano Celentano?

"He can actually sing in Doctor’s Handwriting."

 

[Assimilator]

Applied.

 

[laszlo]

Applied.

Borg's are not allowed!

 

[Deleted member 24505]

The Brits are a trip. The further north you travel the tougher it is to understand them. Then you have the Aussies and New Zealanders who beat the h3ll out of every vowel like fingernails across a chalkboard. Then you have the Americans in New England who never got taught the letter 'R' in the alphabet not to mention American southerners who have their own dialect that's damn near impossible to understand.

You would probably find it hard with my thick northern English accent. Went to Swindon once and even they had a hard time

Americans call their sport football despite the fact they're obviously using their hands and the thing they throw at each other isn't even NEARLY orbicular.

It's more Rugby but they wear pansy padding.

 

[R0H1T]

Well you still have cricket though & until a certain Don was playing timeless tests as well

The game that didn't end

At Kingsmead in 1939, with war looming over Europe, England and South Africa kept playing and playing and playing

www.espncricinfo.com

 

[ir_cow]

The Irish become easier to understand the more drunk they get. British on the other hand, sometimes I wonder if its even English.

 

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[noel_fs]

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