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

Here's one I'm not sure if people write on purpose or not: Edumacation instead of education.



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Final-Fan on 26 July 2011

Deliberate lack of reply implies grudging concession?



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adriane23 on 26 July 2011

In addition to the OP list, I hate when people misuse woman and women.



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Kirameo on 26 July 2011

I've come across many women that confuse kitchen with office.



 

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haxxiy on 26 July 2011

Piontles is the worst misspelling I've ever read.



 

 

 

 

 

thetonestarr on 26 July 2011

"Alot" is a piss-poor inclusion. How do you think words like "awhile" and "another" came to be? Exact same process, except they did it earlier on.

Besides that, "alot" is a word; it's just not currently considered a "standard" usage as of yet. As you said before, go open a dictionary, you uneducated swine.



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thetonestarr on 26 July 2011
RolStoppable 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.

I've read posts of yours, so I believe you that English is hard to learn for you. You don't even get the use of "a" and "an" right, so yeah...

But really, English is easy to learn. Verbs barely change (if at all) when using different pronouns and tenses. Plural is similarly easy and there's only "the, a, an" to put in front of nouns, because nouns have no gender in English. Sure, there are some screwed up words and the same vowels or vowel combinations can be pronounced differently, but getting a basic grasp of the language in both writing and reading is simple.

Have you ever even studied foreign languages, outside of simple Spanish, German, or French? Most languages from outsde the European circle of languages English developed from are so drastically different, it's unreal.

Statistically, English is absolutely the hardest language to learn, because (1) we have so many nonstandard spellings, (2) we claim to go by phonics but an incredibly vast amount of the language goes against phonetic rules, (3) how the heck does "was", "were", and "am" develop from "is"?, (4) we're a hodgepodge of quite literally a dozen different languages (though most of our vocabulary originates in five languages, but that's still ridiculous!), (5) we have an incredible number of colloquial wordings, phrases, and sayings, and (6) sentence order is so relaxed. You'd think that would make it easier, but most of the world's languages have strict rules for how they work, so to switch to something that isn't as strict really confuses non-native speakers.

 

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WiseOwl on 26 July 2011

Sometimes I will put effort into my post. But I don't want to feel like I am in school, this is for fun.



Troll_Whisperer on 26 July 2011
thetonestarr said:
RolStoppable 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.

I've read posts of yours, so I believe you that English is hard to learn for you. You don't even get the use of "a" and "an" right, so yeah...

But really, English is easy to learn. Verbs barely change (if at all) when using different pronouns and tenses. Plural is similarly easy and there's only "the, a, an" to put in front of nouns, because nouns have no gender in English. Sure, there are some screwed up words and the same vowels or vowel combinations can be pronounced differently, but getting a basic grasp of the language in both writing and reading is simple.

Have you ever even studied foreign languages, outside of simple Spanish, German, or French? Most languages from outsde the European circle of languages English developed from are so drastically different, it's unreal.

Statistically, English is absolutely the hardest language to learn, because (1) we have so many nonstandard spellings, (2) we claim to go by phonics but an incredibly vast amount of the language goes against phonetic rules, (3) how the heck does "was", "were", and "am" develop from "is"?, (4) we're a hodgepodge of quite literally a dozen different languages (though most of our vocabulary originates in five languages, but that's still ridiculous!), (5) we have an incredible number of colloquial wordings, phrases, and sayings, and (6) sentence order is so relaxed. You'd think that would make it easier, but most of the world's languages have strict rules for how they work, so to switch to something that isn't as strict really confuses non-native speakers.

 

Source: I'm a professional linguist.

When it comes to learning languages, most peope agree English is one of the simplest. The grammar is really easy compared to any other European language. You may be a linguist, but you will find but most people learning languages would agree on this, and that's what counts.



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