allhailIndia
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I totally wholly agree with thee that thy assumption concerning the word"forum" cannot be truer
Why English is the hardest language to learn
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I totally wholly agree with thee that thy assumption concerning the word"forum" cannot be truer
duke o' york
It don't mean a thing....
It is correct, but I'm still undecided as to which is the best for use here, and we must accept the decision of TF because it's his site. You could make the Gamecatcher Fora champions of correct English though! I'd visit, but you'd have a hell of a job editing all the typos. Especially if Lefty still visits . You shouldn't be so picky about one word when practically all the posts here feature at last one spelling mistake, often more.
How about sterna, stadia, ba.....? (think about it
)
. You shouldn't be so picky about one word when practically all the posts here feature at last one spelling mistake, often more.How about sterna, stadia, ba.....? (think about it
)
And people wonder why English is hard to learn!
The 'standard' way of forming plurals in English is to add 's' at the end. But then we have so many 'irregular' words: man -> men, child -> children, deer -> deer, etc.
BTW, the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary states that the plural of 'forum' is 'forums', but that in Latin it was 'fora'.
My take is that the upsurge in the use of the term 'fora' started because some people wanted to appear 'educated'. (No fingers pointed here. This was started before most of us were born.) So actually, the use of the term 'fora' is what has been introduced to the language. The 'correct' plural, in English, is 'forums'. 
Use whichever you want, you won't be wrong.
The 'standard' way of forming plurals in English is to add 's' at the end. But then we have so many 'irregular' words: man -> men, child -> children, deer -> deer, etc.
BTW, the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary states that the plural of 'forum' is 'forums', but that in Latin it was 'fora'.
My take is that the upsurge in the use of the term 'fora' started because some people wanted to appear 'educated'. (No fingers pointed here. This was started before most of us were born.) So actually, the use of the term 'fora' is what has been introduced to the language. The 'correct' plural, in English, is 'forums'. Use whichever you want, you won't be wrong.
Black Fluffy Lion
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Originally posted by Padma
And people wonder why English is hard to learn!
The 'standard' way of forming plurals in English is to add 's' at the end. But then we have so many 'irregular' words: man -> men, child -> children, deer -> deer, etc.
BTW, the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary states that the plural of 'forum' is 'forums', but that in Latin it was 'fora'.
Use whichever you want, you won't be wrong.
yes, as the usual way in English is to add an 's' on to the end, forums has become the generally accepted correct word. But I will stay technically correct! fora is the word!
Switch625
I don't care.
Originally posted by Padma
And people wonder why English is hard to learn!
The 'standard' way of forming plurals in English is to add 's' at the end. But then we have so many 'irregular' words: man -> men, child -> children, deer -> deer, etc.
What's even better, is that some of the inconsitencies are oddly consistent. Example: mouse -> mice, louse -> lice. But don't think you've found a pattern, because: house -> houses!
Switch625
I don't care.
English gets picked on because it's the language of diplomacy and commerce. It is the lingua franca (a term I find to be amusingly ironic). The target with the highest profile is the easiest target to hit.
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How is 'houses' an irregular?
house
houses
seem to me you just add s
house
houses
seem to me you just add s
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When you think about, this all came about becuase we tried to mix Latin, French and German. History repeats itself indeed.
Switch625
I don't care.
No, that isn't what I meant. I was simply illustrating another oddity of the language. If anything, I'd rather "mouse" and "louse" conform to the "add an 's'" rule of plurals.
Switch625
I don't care.
I have to admit, having "extra rules that do not always work" can really drive me to distraction with English. I have given much idle thought to how I'd revise the English language to make it more aesthetically pleasing. The alphabet alone could use a major overhaul. (I might have a bit too much time on my hands)
Maybe when I'm not awake when I should be asleep (it's 3:45 AM right now where I live) I'll go a little more into it. Or maybe not. Who knows?
Lord_Vetinari
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A joke I found in a book on English:
The EU commision has accepted English as the union's official language, but to make it simpler a spelling reform will take place the next five years:
Year 1: When the letter c is pronounced soft it will be replaced with an s "Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy" and the hard c will be replaced with a k: "this should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan now have one less letter"
Year 2: The troublesome ph will always be replaced with f. This immediately reduces the word fotografer with 20%
Year 3: Publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. The Government will enkourage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent e's in the language is disgrasful and they should eliminat them
Year 4: Peopl wil be reseptiv to lingwistik korektions such as replasing th with z and w with v (saving mor keyboard spas)
During ze fifz year, ze unesesary o kan be dropd from vords kontaining ou and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz year, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer.
ZE DREM VIL FINALY KUM TRU!
The EU commision has accepted English as the union's official language, but to make it simpler a spelling reform will take place the next five years:
Year 1: When the letter c is pronounced soft it will be replaced with an s "Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy" and the hard c will be replaced with a k: "this should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan now have one less letter"
Year 2: The troublesome ph will always be replaced with f. This immediately reduces the word fotografer with 20%
Year 3: Publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. The Government will enkourage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent e's in the language is disgrasful and they should eliminat them
Year 4: Peopl wil be reseptiv to lingwistik korektions such as replasing th with z and w with v (saving mor keyboard spas)
During ze fifz year, ze unesesary o kan be dropd from vords kontaining ou and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz year, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer.
ZE DREM VIL FINALY KUM TRU!
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Sounds like some sort of eastern european came up with that. Will all be talking with accents by 2007.
Sixchan
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aktuly, zat kind of speling wud mak mukh mor sense zan kurent ways of using English, and speling, gramer and komprehenshiun wud dramatikly improve. Khildren all over ze world wud embrase ze nyo speling as mukh ese-ar to yus, and ze world wud bekom mukh mor korekt.
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