the english language is so weird

why does tony rhyme with bologna?

 

no...YOU'RE weird...

 

well duh! please try to stay on topic though.

 

YES!

and Level spelled backwards spells ?

 

palindrome ? do i win?

 

rendezvous

 

beats me.. but I love my language

 

*sigh* i'm gonna go read a book or something.

 

bologna is an Italian word.

hence the spelling

the pronunciation is a marketing simplification, and because of the phonology of english (which is actually complex, and harsh)



the most unusual word in this thread actually is "weird" as it's VERY old, and from a version of english, that didn't have the same spelling conventions, it also described a coven, a maiden (virgin) a mother, and a crone (post menopausal shriveled old bitch) but it has transformed meaning into describing something that is strange.


bologna at least describes emulsified meat that descended from a style of meat that was originally made in Bologna


rendezvous describes a concept that doesn't exist cleanly in the english language, so we borrowed a word from the french (like
L'esprit de l'escalier

which describes that sensation you have when you come up with a clever thing to say just a moment late to actually say it.

 

Tony tallian too. Perhaps that's why they rhyme.

 

it's a latin name, anthony, antonius, it was once popular (and may still be) amongst italian immigrants, but, that does not demonstrate specific origin.

Jesus was a Hebrew name, but it's very popular amongst certain hispanic peoples

 

the only reason a lot of italians are named tony is because their mothers wrote "TO N.Y." on their shirts before leaving italy.

 

Where does Latin originate?

 

it is classed as an italic language because it spread from rome, that however does not strictly speak to it's origins, it is based strongly on Etruscan, and other Indo-European languages, and so it's origination is not as monolithic as that.

no language has a monolithic origination point

many of the conventions that stand in Latin stem from the Greek Pæloponnese (yes, I'm using æ, it's appropriate, and dipthong vowels just belong in some places) and others are borrowed from Mesopotamia.

it could just as easily (linguistically) be classed as a Pæloponnesian language as an italic one, but for historical reasons (and not lingual or social ones) it is classed as an italic language (you might notice that there is still roman architecture in Washington DC, this worship of the roman empire, and belief in the Romulus and Remus story, even though it is not actual, does taint scholarly affairs, Rome wasn't built in a day, but many historians like to pretend it was hindering other scholarly pursuits in the act)


So, to answer your question, there isn't one.

And you're dicking with the wrong person.

 

Sean Bean

why isn't it shawn beorn or seen been?? why are two words spelled so similar so different??

oh the insanity

 

Bologna is an Italian word?

[/QUOTE]And you're dicking with the wrong person.[/QUOTE]
I was more being facetious than fucking around but I think I got the right guy.

 

And you're dicking with the wrong person.[/QUOTE]
I was more being facetious than fucking around but I think I got the right guy.[/QUOTE]
Bologna is a word, Latin is a language.
you fail.

 

I was more being facetious than fucking around but I think I got the right guy.[/QUOTE]
Bologna is a word, Latin is a language.
you fail.[/QUOTE]
Italian is a language.
Serving love love.

 

Bologna is a word, Latin is a language.
you fail.[/QUOTE]
Italian is a language.
Serving love love.[/QUOTE]
And in effect, a name older than it may not belong to it, however a name much younger than it, which saw synthesis within it, must belong to it.

you really don't understand this linguistics stuff, no wonder you chose "the dope" as your screen name.

 

It was intentionally designed that way, thousands of years ago, so that one day, this, the greatest of all internet threads, would be born.