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Hynad on 26 July 2011

The one that annoys me the most from your list is "definitely".

Because most people write it "defiantly" which certainly doesn't have the same meaning at all.  Definitely seems like they defiantly use it to cause confusion.

Defiantly: Adv.
1. defiantly - in a rebellious manner; "he rejected her words rebelliously"

Definitely: Adv
1. in a definite manner
2. (sentence modifier) certainly he said he was coming, definitely
sentence substitute
unquestionably: used to confirm an assumption by a questioner



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osamanobama on 26 July 2011
mchaza said:
i go against your statement that the English language is the easiest to learn because i say the English language is the Hardest to learn with even native English speakers have troubles with it and the Whole range of screwed up things like silent letters to words with multiple meanings and to top it off the Americans fought it would be awesome to screw up everything and make their own version of English with different spelling.

But thats what you get when you mix German, french, old celtic,latin and many many more, and add a Arabic letter system.

Japanese is much easier, tho i had to give it up and stick to learning my own language before moving onto others.

well technically the English change words, meanings and spellings too.

try reaading beowulf in old english, its basically a different language, even old King James version of the Bible, is difficult, and Shakespeare (God do i hate his stuff)

i dont see how the American version of English is any less correct than the English version



Mistershine on 26 July 2011

Color! The word has a u in it people! Colour! Flavour! And any more words that I'm to irate to think of!



osamanobama on 26 July 2011
Mistershine said:
Color! The word has a u in it people! Colour! Flavour! And any more words that I'm to irate to think of!

flashlight>>>>>> torch



Troll_Whisperer on 26 July 2011
Mistershine said:
Color! The word has a u in it people! Colour! Flavour! And any more words that I'm to irate to think of!


Well, that's just the American spelling. They change many words, like centre/center, colour/color, etc. So in theory it's correct as long as an American writes it.



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TruckOSaurus on 26 July 2011
Mistershine said:
Color! The word has a u in it people! Colour! Flavour! And any more words that I'm to irate to think of!

That's actually not an error. It's the American spelling for those words.



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Mistershine on 26 July 2011
osamanobama said:
Mistershine said:
Color! The word has a u in it people! Colour! Flavour! And any more words that I'm to irate to think of!

flashlight>>>>>> torch


Fleshlight>>>>>>>>>>>Flashlight

Torches are cooler than flashlights. You can't have an angry mob with flaming flashlights!

Also this thread is about the english language, not american.  :)



Barozi on 26 July 2011

excellent thread Rol



brendude13 on 26 July 2011
osamanobama said:
mchaza said:
i go against your statement that the English language is the easiest to learn because i say the English language is the Hardest to learn with even native English speakers have troubles with it and the Whole range of screwed up things like silent letters to words with multiple meanings and to top it off the Americans fought it would be awesome to screw up everything and make their own version of English with different spelling.

But thats what you get when you mix German, french, old celtic,latin and many many more, and add a Arabic letter system.

Japanese is much easier, tho i had to give it up and stick to learning my own language before moving onto others.

well technically the English change words, meanings and spellings too.

try reaading beowulf in old english, its basically a different language, even old King James version of the Bible, is difficult, and Shakespeare (God do i hate his stuff)

i dont see how the American version of English is any less correct than the English version

You just answered your own question.



Final-Fan on 26 July 2011
brendude13 said:
osamanobama said:

well technically the English change words, meanings and spellings too.

try reaading beowulf in old english, its basically a different language, even old King James version of the Bible, is difficult, and Shakespeare (God do i hate his stuff)

i dont see how the American version of English is any less correct than the English version

You just answered your own question.

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