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Macdeo Lurjtux: Jul 5, 2011; BRRREADSTOOORRM!

kiimo posted:

To be fair the Giants lack of a fast paste offense really left fans chomping at the bit

They committed too many fowls to expect to win that agme.

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Dillbag: Mar 4, 2007; Click here to join Lem Lee in the Hell Of Being Cut To Pieces; Nap Ghost

Ba weep gra na weep ninny bong

# ? Jul 18, 2021 20:01

By popular demand: Jul 17, 2007; IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!

What did you just call my wife?!

# ? Jul 18, 2021 20:02

Cartoon Man: Jan 31, 2004

Philippe posted:

Bah-weep-graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong!

# ? Jul 18, 2021 20:04

Grendels Dad: Mar 5, 2011; Popular culture has passed you by.

Dillbag posted:

Ba weep gra na weep ninny bong

My nam is Kid
Kid
Rock

# ? Jul 18, 2021 20:08

The Anime Liker: Aug 8, 2009; by VideoGames

Grendels Dad posted:

My nam is Kid
Kid
Rock

lmao

# ? Jul 18, 2021 20:09

Mister Speaker: May 8, 2007; WE WILL CONTROL
ALL THAT YOU SEE
AND HEAR

The Bloop posted:

Yakka foob mog grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork chumble spuzz

The alien dialogue in Spaceman Spiff strips cracked me right up as a kid.

Also, "YEAH? Well, YOU go like THIS: 'gakka-wakka-wakka'!"

# ? Jul 18, 2021 20:14

Seth Pecksniff: May 27, 2004; can't believe shrek is fucking dead. rip to a real one.

Teddy Roosevelt wanted to simplify the English language and got roundly mocked for it

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/news/theodore-roosevelt-spelling-controversy

# ? Jul 18, 2021 20:44

flavor.flv: Apr 18, 2008; I got a letter from the government the other day
opened it, read it
it said they was bitches

Then why do you still spell colour wrong?

# ? Jul 18, 2021 20:47

kiimo: Jul 24, 2003

It's the English who spell it wrong because they spell it like the French. You aren't the French, are you?

# ? Jul 18, 2021 20:57

boofhead: Feb 18, 2021

the americans are the french of the americas. yes i am willing to die on this hill, why do you ask

# ? Jul 18, 2021 20:59

Data Graham: Dec 28, 2009; 📈📊🍪😋

my favorite is aluminum/aluminium because both are corrections to Davy's original "alumium"

Depends which "correction" you think is better

e: do you follow the pattern of "platinum" or the pattern of "rubidium"

# ? Jul 18, 2021 20:59

Paladinus: Jan 11, 2014; heyHEYYYY!!!

kiimo posted:

It's the English who spell it wrong because they spell it like the French. You aren't the French, are you?

The French spell it couleur.

# ? Jul 18, 2021 21:01

Der Kyhe: Jun 25, 2008

low key sex master posted:

Teddy Roosevelt wanted to simplify the English language and got roundly mocked for it

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/news/theodore-roosevelt-spelling-controversy

They also went with the Simple English on propaganda efforts against the commies in South America, and there is even a large Wikipedia written in it so the effort or idea was not a complete waste of time.

Also, in here the stuff the Worcestershire, and all the other shires are not exactly a high merit. Maybe drop the silent letters at some point? I am also looking at you, French language.

# ? Jul 18, 2021 21:02

Paladinus: Jan 11, 2014; heyHEYYYY!!!

Der Kyhe posted:

They also went with the Simple English on propaganda efforts against the commies in South America, and there is even a large Wikipedia written in it so the effort or idea was not a complete waste of time.

Also, in here the stuff the Worcestershire, and all the other shires are not exactly a high merit. Maybe drop the silent letters at some point? I am also looking at you, French language.

Nough.

# ? Jul 18, 2021 21:03

voiceless anal fricative: May 6, 2007

Paladinus posted:

Nough.

Bhuet hwhaiey noughght?

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Carthag Tuek: Oct 15, 2005; Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
sl�gt skal f�lge sl�gters gang

low key sex master posted:

Teddy Roosevelt wanted to simplify the English language and got roundly mocked for it

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/news/theodore-roosevelt-spelling-controversy

lol at the ghost of Chaucer in the cartoon as if English was still spelled as he did.

# ? Jul 18, 2021 21:16

Paladinus: Jan 11, 2014; heyHEYYYY!!!

bike tory posted:

Bhuet hwhaiey noughght?

U wot m8?

# ? Jul 18, 2021 21:19

dialhforhero: Apr 3, 2008; Am I 🧑‍🏫 out of touch🤔? No🧐, it's the children👶 who are wrong🤷🏼‍♂️

Roosevelt wasn�t the only American trying to simplify or standardize American English spelling.

There was this effort and I think Benjamin Franklin made an attempt, too (to no one�s surprise) in an effort to make literacy easier to accomplish and overcome difference in dialects and assist in 2nd language acquisition for immigrants.

They all failed.

# ? Jul 18, 2021 21:22

Zopotantor: Feb 24, 2013; ...und ist er drin dann lassen wir ihn niemals wieder raus...

Gerard Nolst Trenit� posted:

Dearest creature in creation
Studying English pronunciation,
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.

I will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy;
Tear in eye, your dress you'll tear;
Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.

Pray, console your loving poet,
Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!
Just compare heart, hear and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word.

Sword and sward, retain and Britain
(Mind the latter how it's written).
Made has not the sound of bade,
Say-said, pay-paid, laid but plaid.

Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as vague and ague,
But be careful how you speak,
Say: gush, bush, steak, streak, break, bleak ,

Previous, precious, fuchsia, via
Recipe, pipe, studding-sail, choir;
Woven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, shoe, poem, toe.

Say, expecting fraud and trickery:
Daughter, laughter and Terpsichore,
Branch, ranch, measles, topsails, aisles,
Missiles, similes, reviles.

Wholly, holly, signal, signing,
Same, examining, but mining,
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far.

From "desire": desirable-admirable from "admire",
Lumber, plumber, bier, but brier,
Topsham, brougham, renown, but known,
Knowledge, done, lone, gone, none, tone,

One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel.
Gertrude, German, wind and wind,
Beau, kind, kindred, queue, mankind,

Tortoise, turquoise, chamois-leather,
Reading, Reading, heathen, heather.
This phonetic labyrinth
Gives moss, gross, brook, brooch, ninth, plinth.

Have you ever yet endeavoured
To pronounce revered and severed,
Demon, lemon, ghoul, foul, soul,
Peter, petrol and patrol?

Billet does not end like ballet;
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.

Banquet is not nearly parquet,
Which exactly rhymes with khaki.
Discount, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward,

Ricocheted and crocheting, croquet?
Right! Your pronunciation's OK.
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.

Is your r correct in higher?
Keats asserts it rhymes Thalia.
Hugh, but hug, and hood, but hoot,
Buoyant, minute, but minute.

Say abscission with precision,
Now: position and transition;
Would it tally with my rhyme
If I mentioned paradigm?

Twopence, threepence, tease are easy,
But cease, crease, grease and greasy?
Cornice, nice, valise, revise,
Rabies, but lullabies.

Of such puzzling words as nauseous,
Rhyming well with cautious, tortious,
You'll envelop lists, I hope,
In a linen envelope.

Would you like some more? You'll have it!
Affidavit, David, davit.
To abjure, to perjure. Sheik
Does not sound like Czech but ache.

Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, loch, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed but vowed.

Mark the difference, moreover,
Between mover, plover, Dover.
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice,

Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, penal, and canal,
Wait, surmise, plait, promise, pal,

Suit, suite, ruin. Circuit, conduit
Rhyme with "shirk it" and "beyond it",
But it is not hard to tell
Why it's pall, mall, but Pall Mall.

Muscle, muscular, gaol, iron,
Timber, climber, bullion, lion,
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor,

Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
Has the a of drachm and hammer.
Pussy, hussy and possess,
Desert, but desert, address.

Golf, wolf, countenance, lieutenants
Hoist in lieu of flags left pennants.
Courier, courtier, tomb, bomb, comb,
Cow, but Cowper, some and home.

"Solder, soldier! Blood is thicker",
Quoth he, "than liqueur or liquor",
Making, it is sad but true,
In bravado, much ado.

Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Pilot, pivot, gaunt, but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand and grant.

Arsenic, specific, scenic,
Relic, rhetoric, hygienic.
Gooseberry, goose, and close, but close,
Paradise, rise, rose, and dose.

Say inveigh, neigh, but inveigle,
Make the latter rhyme with eagle.
Mind! Meandering but mean,
Valentine and magazine.

And I bet you, dear, a penny,
You say mani-(fold) like many,
Which is wrong. Say rapier, pier,
Tier (one who ties), but tier.

Arch, archangel; pray, does erring
Rhyme with herring or with stirring?
Prison, bison, treasure trove,
Treason, hover, cover, cove,

Perseverance, severance. Ribald
Rhymes (but piebald doesn't) with nibbled.
Phaeton, paean, gnat, ghat, gnaw,
Lien, psychic, shone, bone, pshaw.

Don't be down, my own, but rough it,
And distinguish buffet, buffet;
Brood, stood, roof, rook, school, wool, boon,
Worcester, Boleyn, to impugn.

Say in sounds correct and sterling
Hearse, hear, hearken, year and yearling.
Evil, devil, mezzotint,
Mind the z! (A gentle hint.)

Now you need not pay attention
To such sounds as I don't mention,
Sounds like pores, pause, pours and paws,
Rhyming with the pronoun yours;

Nor are proper names included,
Though I often heard, as you did,
Funny rhymes to unicorn,
Yes, you know them, Vaughan and Strachan.

No, my maiden, coy and comely,
I don't want to speak of Cholmondeley.
No. Yet Froude compared with proud
Is no better than McLeod.

But mind trivial and vial,
Tripod, menial, denial,
Troll and trolley, realm and ream,
Schedule, mischief, schism, and scheme.

Argil, gill, Argyll, gill. Surely
May be made to rhyme with Raleigh,
But you're not supposed to say
Piquet rhymes with sobriquet.

Had this invalid invalid
Worthless documents? How pallid,
How uncouth he, couchant, looked,
When for Portsmouth I had booked!

Zeus, Thebes, Thales, Aphrodite,
Paramour, enamoured, flighty,
Episodes, antipodes,
Acquiesce, and obsequies.

Please don't monkey with the geyser,
Don't peel 'taters with my razor,
Rather say in accents pure:
Nature, stature and mature.

Pious, impious, limb, climb, glumly,
Worsted, worsted, crumbly, dumbly,
Conquer, conquest, vase, phase, fan,
Wan, sedan and artisan.

The th will surely trouble you
More than r, ch or w.
Say then these phonetic gems:
Thomas, thyme, Theresa, Thames.

Thompson, Chatham, Waltham, Streatham,
There are more but I forget 'em-
Wait! I've got it: Anthony,
Lighten your anxiety.

The archaic word albeit
Does not rhyme with eight-you see it;
With and forthwith, one has voice,
One has not, you make your choice.

Shoes, goes, does *. Now first say: finger;
Then say: singer, ginger, linger.
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, age,

Hero, heron, query, very,
Parry, tarry fury, bury,
Dost, lost, post, and doth, cloth, loth,
Job, Job, blossom, bosom, oath.

Faugh, oppugnant, keen oppugners,
Bowing, bowing, banjo-tuners
Holm you know, but noes, canoes,
Puisne, truism, use, to use?

Though the difference seems little,
We say actual, but victual,
Seat, sweat, chaste, caste, Leigh, eight, height,
Put, nut, granite, and unite.

Reefer does not rhyme with deafer,
Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Dull, bull, Geoffrey, George, ate, late,
Hint, pint, senate, but sedate.

Gaelic, Arabic, pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific;
Tour, but our, dour, succour, four,
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.

Say manoeuvre, yacht and vomit,
Next omit, which differs from it
Bona fide, alibi
Gyrate, dowry and awry.

Sea, idea, guinea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean,
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion with battalion,
Rally with ally; yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, key, quay!

Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, receiver.
Never guess-it is not safe,
We say calves, valves, half, but Ralf.

Starry, granary, canary,
Crevice, but device, and eyrie,
Face, but preface, then grimace,
Phlegm, phlegmatic, rear end, glass, bass.

Bass, large, target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, oust, joust, and scour, but scourging;
Ear, but earn; and ere and tear
Do not rhyme with here but heir.

Mind the o of off and often
Which may be pronounced as orphan,
With the sound of saw and sauce;
Also soft, lost, cloth and cross.

Pudding, puddle, putting. Putting?
Yes: at golf it rhymes with shutting.
Respite, spite, consent, resent.
Liable, but Parliament.

Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew, Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, clerk and jerk,
Asp, grasp, wasp, demesne, cork, work.

A of valour, vapid vapour,
S of news (compare newspaper),
G of gibbet, gibbon, gist,
I of antichrist and grist,

Differ like diverse and divers,
Rivers, strivers, shivers, fivers.
Once, but nonce, toll, doll, but roll,
Polish, Polish, poll and poll.

Pronunciation-think of Psyche!-
Is a paling, stout and spiky.
Won't it make you lose your wits
Writing groats and saying "grits"?

It's a dark abyss or tunnel
Strewn with stones like rowlock, gunwale,
Islington, and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.

Don't you think so, reader, rather,
Saying lather, bather, father?
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, bough, cough, hough, sough, tough??

Hiccough has the sound of sup...
My advice is: GIVE IT UP!

# ? Jul 18, 2021 21:24

Yoshi Wins: Jul 14, 2013

If it was going to happen, it had to happen earlier. Like around the time the King James Bible was being published. It's just way too late now. But as a former ESL teacher, gently caress English spelling.

# ? Jul 18, 2021 21:26

Data Graham: Dec 28, 2009; 📈📊🍪😋

Yoshi Wins posted:

But as a former ESL teacher,

This is just hour after hour of "I'm sorry :negative:

" right

# ? Jul 18, 2021 21:30

SerthVarnee: Mar 13, 2011; It has been ~~two~~ zero days since last incident.; Big Super Slapstick Hunk

In my experience it is more: "Its broken anyways, don't worry too much about it."

# ? Jul 18, 2021 21:32

Yoshi Wins: Jul 14, 2013

Data Graham posted:

This is just hour after hour of "I'm sorry " right

Most of my students were Koreans, who expect studying to be a painful process of rote memorization, but I still found it regrettable that they had to spend so much time and energy on something that is trivially easy in most (all??) other languages with a phonetic alphabet. What the gently caress kind of language has an alphabet that is based on sounds, and yet you can't tell how to spell something based on how it sounds?

I don't have any other major issues with English. But this one thing is just such a huge and dumb problem.

# ? Jul 18, 2021 21:37

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Dolton Edwards, "Meihem in ce Klasrum", 1946

# ? Jul 18, 2021 21:42

Johnny Aztec: Jan 30, 2005; by Hand Knit

Nah, English is an awesome melting pot of a language, and doesn't assign gender to inanimate objects.

# ? Jul 18, 2021 21:56

SerthVarnee: Mar 13, 2011; It has been ~~two~~ zero days since last incident.; Big Super Slapstick Hunk

Other than ships.

# ? Jul 18, 2021 21:57

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

ultrafilter posted:

That's a very popular stereotype, but there's really nothing to it. Very few mathematicians are anything more than eccentric.

Mailbombs Ted was an outlier who shouldn't have been counted.

# ? Jul 18, 2021 21:57

Paladinus: Jan 11, 2014; heyHEYYYY!!!

Lemniscate Blue posted:

Dolton Edwards, "Meihem in ce Klasrum", 1946

Lol, his name is Dolton.

# ? Jul 18, 2021 21:59

The Anime Liker: Aug 8, 2009; by VideoGames

Knormal posted:

Mailbombs Ted was an outlier who shouldn't have been counted.

Please do not speak ill of the righteous one.

# ? Jul 18, 2021 22:13

Stupid_Sexy_Flander: Mar 14, 2007; Is a man not entitled to the haw of his maw?; Grimey Drawer

Paladinus posted:

The French spell it couleur.

The Russians used a crayon.

# ? Jul 18, 2021 23:03

By popular demand: Jul 17, 2007; IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!

I knows you go cray on my rear end!

# ? Jul 18, 2021 23:05

ookiimarukochan: Apr 4, 2011

Yoshi Wins posted:

What the gently caress kind of language has an alphabet that is based on sounds, and yet you can't tell how to spell something based on how it sounds?

Japanese (Kanji)

Languages that have gender mean you're going to be doing a ton of rote memorisation. Languages with conjugation but a shitload of irregular verbs means you're going to be doing a ton of rote memorisation. There's nothing unique about English that way.

# ? Jul 18, 2021 23:23

Data Graham: Dec 28, 2009; 📈📊🍪😋

Yoshi Wins posted:

Most of my students were Koreans, who expect studying to be a painful process of rote memorization, but I still found it regrettable that they had to spend so much time and energy on something that is trivially easy in most (all??) other languages with a phonetic alphabet. What the gently caress kind of language has an alphabet that is based on sounds, and yet you can't tell how to spell something based on how it sounds?

I don't have any other major issues with English. But this one thing is just such a huge and dumb problem.

What I wonder about is what kind of :psyduck:

must be going through people's heads when they try to figure out colloquial constructs like the distinction between "few" and "a few".

Like I can barely even think how to explain it clearly, let alone expect anyone to get it off the bat (and few do)

# ? Jul 18, 2021 23:26

dialhforhero: Apr 3, 2008; Am I 🧑‍🏫 out of touch🤔? No🧐, it's the children👶 who are wrong🤷🏼‍♂️

Johnny Aztec posted:

Nah, English is an awesome melting pot of a language, and doesn't assign gender to inanimate objects.

Vehicles, buildings, weapons, and some tools, plus many objects that has a personal attachment to you, beg to differ.

# ? Jul 18, 2021 23:27

Barry Soteriology: Mar 1, 2020

# ? Jul 18, 2021 23:27

aphid_licker: Jan 7, 2009

Data Graham posted:

What I wonder about is what kind of must be going through people's heads when they try to figure out colloquial constructs like the distinction between "few" and "a few".

Like I can barely even think how to explain it clearly, let alone expect anyone to get it off the bat (and few do)

But a few do do

# ? Jul 18, 2021 23:29