english?

Discussion in 'The Whiners' started by NikkiLou6387, Aug 10, 2005.

  1. lover/young_peace

    lover/young_peace Senior Member

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    Wow... that's a lot of words to know. :D
     
  2. I know english, I know well, I speak it as I choose, it is language, it has rules that are meant to be flexible, creoles happen, dialects happen, lingual evolution happens....
     
  3. JanaXGIRL

    JanaXGIRL Senior Member

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    hahhaha, what?! :D I don't know, I have never thought so about my language, czech, which is more difficult, I think.. :D
     
  4. complete works of shakespeare, 30,000 different words


    complete works of byron 6,000 different words




    you don't need to know a lot of words in each language to get your point across, just enough



    though I wouldn't count on being the best german playwright of all time w\ 6000 words.....
     
  5. JanaXGIRL

    JanaXGIRL Senior Member

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    hmm... I don't know how many words czech has.. but EVERYONE, who learns czech, I mean from foreigners, says, it's the most difficult language.. I don't know :D
     
  6. I'd say english from mandarin..... or vice versa


    mostly because in mandarin you use totally different mouth muscles and some people end up having surgery so they can learn the other

    also mandarin is tonal and english is whatever you call a language that isn't tonal

    mandarin has strict rules, in english every rule, I mean every rule has an example of breakage


    chech does have some nasty glottal shit, but it is still in the mode of a lot of other languages

    I mean from a default it could average out hardest

    but I'd still say that in that individual situation, english\mandarin, that's just nasty shit.....
     
  7. spooner

    spooner is done.

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    don't look at me. i'm a lit major.
     
  8. come on, you should be "all up in" philology......



    I have a creeping suspiscion I spelled that wrong..... it looks right, sounds right, but I never spell it right



    I'll check it later and edit it accordingly if I remember.....
     
  9. *Ewan*

    *Ewan* Member

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    Im doing french, id would have liked to learn ukranian as my grnadparents are ukranian.
     
  10. sundust

    sundust Member

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    Languages always change overtime.
     
  11. gulfwinds

    gulfwinds girasoles para los amigos

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    why did this sound to me like the purist theories of language experts who put all their media effort in trying to conserve the language as it is? Oh and you might want to avoid 'lol' dearest, it's not standard english
     
  12. buxillafion

    buxillafion secretary of pizza

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    ooh same here! :D

    french I this semester, and in Jan. french II
    :D:D
    i'm so excitedddd
     
  13. aphrodite_pretty

    aphrodite_pretty Member

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    lol That's funny, I like that!

    Bright Blessings!
    Aphrodite Pretty
     
  14. fruit bat

    fruit bat All dumplings are real.

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    I freakin love Newfies. I dont think they're as dumb as people say they are. They just lead simpler lives, I suppose, and that's how it should be. :D
     
  15. NikkiLou6387

    NikkiLou6387 ~peace~

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    there is no such language as hawiian. there's tahitian and polynesian and im sure niether of those are spelled correctly
     
  16. NikkiLou6387

    NikkiLou6387 ~peace~

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    wtf are leet and ebonics?
     
  17. vynylwash

    vynylwash Member

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    i like English because it's the only language I know how to speak.

    that and gibberish but nobody knows what I'm talking about.

    i'm speaking gibberish right now!
     
  18. NikkiLou6387

    NikkiLou6387 ~peace~

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    are you talking about double-g? i know how to speak that.



    and to all the others... i know i'm ignorant, that's why i started this thread! yet, not one of you has explained what "teh" "pwn u hos" or "newfies" means.
     
  19. vynylwash

    vynylwash Member

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    oh that's the internet language that's already kick-started the apocalypse.
     
  20. Lodui

    Lodui One Man Orgy

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    If I we're in charge there would only be four languages, English, Spanish, Mandarin, and Hindi, and if you don't know one, you can either pick up some books, or form your little half monkey society in France.

    Maybe I'm going a little far, but does Sweden really need its own language? [​IMG]
     
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