Lillefix
I'm serious. You can.
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Your spelling? YOUR spelling?
You've only borrowed it from the British. I doubt you people even asked for permision.
What is your Native Language?
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Your spelling? YOUR spelling?
You've only borrowed it from the British. I doubt you people even asked for permision.
Godwynn
March to the Sea
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Your spelling? YOUR spelling?
You've only borrowed it from the British. I doubt you people even asked for permision.
Yes, our spelling.
If you don't like it you can invade the U.S.
Invade the U.S. with your army.
Oh wait, you can't invade us with your army. In that case I'd be quiet. That's what I'd do if I couldn't invade someone, I'd be quiet. Be QUI-ET!
You may speak 4 languages, but you're gonna need them when your in Times Square selling fake hats. I know gucci when I see it Lillefix, playa I'm rich!
Godwynn
March to the Sea
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I know you're not, I think you're from Scandinavia?
MagisterCultuum
Great Sage
Spelling was standardized in America before it was in Britain, so Godwynn's claim was fine.
Godwynn
March to the Sea
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True, Norway. But I have to support my European brethren you know.
In that case, change army to "longboat."
Lillefix, like I'm going to take orders from a Norwegian. I've got a coalition of the willing, READY TO ROLL SON.
scherbchen
well that can´t be good
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them took ur jabs!
Try reforming your spelling so that you don't have six different ways to spell /i/ and spelling /b/ and the other voiced consonants as something other than the godawful [mp] cluster, then we'll talk.
Er, there are many, many compound words within English; a lot has just been displaced by terms considered more prestigious (anglo-norman, greek, latin) - there's nothing that stopped English from having derivational words; there are still basic compound words derived from Old English like kingdom, etc.Varwnos said:
And that's certainly not true. English has a huge vocabulary which allows for an excellent amount of precision when necessary. In addition, English has quite a rich derivational morphology- words like "antidisestablishmentarianism" are a testament to this. The fact that various suffixes have been borrowed from other languages is irrelevant.
gugalpm
Veteran of psychic wars
My native language is Portuguese, Latium's last flower, wild and beautiful. I'm also studying French, one level short of advanced studies.
1. If you're not a native English speaker:
a. Language school;
b. Advanced/fluent/I speak English better than many native speakers, and I know that from experience;
c. Well, I've been in contact with English since I was about 7-8 years old, but I studied formally from 13 to 16, taking some advanced grammar courses.
d. English is the lingua franca of the western world, do I need to say more?
1. If you're not a native English speaker:
a. Language school;
b. Advanced/fluent/I speak English better than many native speakers, and I know that from experience;
c. Well, I've been in contact with English since I was about 7-8 years old, but I studied formally from 13 to 16, taking some advanced grammar courses.
d. English is the lingua franca of the western world, do I need to say more?
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
I find English to be a bit limited in some respects - but Polish and German in others.
When I use Polish to describe a situation I am able to get certain nuances across that English is incapable of handling - but the same is true the other way around. It's like a different way of looking at the world.
When I use Polish to describe a situation I am able to get certain nuances across that English is incapable of handling - but the same is true the other way around. It's like a different way of looking at the world.
Harvin87
The Youth
exactly as warpus said... it's like a different way to look at the world.
azzaman333
meh
Klingon.
(someone else has probably already said this)
(someone else has probably already said this)
sophie
Break My Heart
Easier than French, imo. At least with English you can at least guess the spelling correctly if you know the root. With French, a lot of those double consonants come out of nowhere!
scherbchen
well that can´t be good
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dunno, the bit you quoted was a jibe towards the post made just prior to it by, I guess, an American.
mechaerik
Tuturuu!
What constitutes a native language? I learned both Spanish (which is the only language my parents speak) and English at roughly the same time. I'm quite fluent in English, and I have a pretty good understanding of Spanish.
Ansar
Détente avec l'été
1. If you are a not a native English speaker:
a. how/where did you learn English?
International school, then living in the US.
b. what level do you consider yourself?
Fluent. My English has become better than my Spanish.
c. how long did it take you to reach the level you are at?
Years of living here.
d. why did you learn English?
My parents said it was necessary for the future, when we would be living in the US.
extra questions
a2. what other language(s) do you speak?
Spanish and French.
b2. what level do you consider yourself?
Spanish, fluent.
French, okay ... I'm improving, though.
c2. how long did it take you to reach the level you are at?
Not much for French. It's pretty quick to learn a language if you want to learn it and if it's not impossible like Chinese or Japanese (with their hundreds of symbols that you literally draw...)
d2. why did you learn another language?
French just seems like a useful (and cool-sounding) language.
e. What other languages do you want to learn?
Korean.
a. how/where did you learn English?
International school, then living in the US.
b. what level do you consider yourself?
Fluent. My English has become better than my Spanish.
c. how long did it take you to reach the level you are at?
Years of living here.
d. why did you learn English?
My parents said it was necessary for the future, when we would be living in the US.
extra questions
a2. what other language(s) do you speak?
Spanish and French.
b2. what level do you consider yourself?
Spanish, fluent.
French, okay ... I'm improving, though.
c2. how long did it take you to reach the level you are at?
Not much for French. It's pretty quick to learn a language if you want to learn it and if it's not impossible like Chinese or Japanese (with their hundreds of symbols that you literally draw...)
d2. why did you learn another language?
French just seems like a useful (and cool-sounding) language.
e. What other languages do you want to learn?
Korean.
Mirc
Not mIRC!!!
No, English spelling is quite a lot more difficult than French. English is choke-full of random double letters too. Why the difference between "full" and "beautiful"? On that note, why "beautiful" and not "beautyful"... in fact, why not "beautyfull", to be 100% consequent? And actually, looking at your post, why is it "correctly" and not "corectly", what difference would it make? Why do you need the double R in there? And still only looking at your post, why "guess" and not "gues", what does the double S do in there?
That's just a number of random examples.
