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Title: English is a very stupid language
Post by: Waziri on January 22, 2004, 03:01:25 PM
:DEnglish is a very stupid language it is not rule-oriented. IF NOT then,

The verbs Break and Preach have virtually every thing in common between phonology and morphology.

E.g. in a simple present tense:

His hand breaks oftentimes
The Imam preaches everyday
                
As a participle

In a present perfect tense:

               He has broken his hand.
               The Imam has preached.

Should have been:

          The Imam has Prochen (sic)

ENGLISH is a very, very stupid language.
:D ;D ;D
Title: Re: English is a very stupid language
Post by: IBB on December 19, 2009, 12:25:38 AM
Agreed.

More examples

Right
Rite
Write
Wright
Title: Re: English is a very stupid language
Post by: thegood on December 20, 2009, 03:07:10 PM
A part from being stupid, it is open to corruption.....just like in the word God, can corrupted as god or gods....
Title: Re: English is a very stupid language
Post by: dankano on January 01, 2010, 06:50:15 PM
Dont blame the language blame the teacher or the learner

Everyday is an adjective used to describe an average
while every day is an expression that means each day.

So in the sentence the "The imam preaches everyday."
everyday is describing the average of days he preaches.
While in the sentence "The imam preaches every day."
means that the imam actually preaches each and every day.
Its simple

Title: Re: English is a very stupid language
Post by: bakangizo on January 04, 2010, 05:57:14 PM
Good ppoint, dankano. The english language has some peculiarities, some funny and some seemingly ridiculous, but isn't that true of all languages?
Title: Re: English is a very stupid language
Post by: bakangizo on February 19, 2010, 04:56:18 PM
Okay, waziri, this might solve the problem ;D



Euro English Unification
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The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).

In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20 persent shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by "v".

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.

Ze drem vil finali kum tru!

Title: Re: English is a very stupid language
Post by: IBB on February 19, 2010, 05:41:02 PM
Agre wiz every zin yu said exsept for ze svitch of "W" viz "V" also "C" vould stil be required for "CH" sound. If I kan ad I wil sugest ze svitch of "E" viz "I" e.g. Be to Bi
Title: Re: English is a very stupid language
Post by: bakangizo on February 23, 2010, 03:36:02 PM
Vat yu say is tru. I also tink ze 'psy' is a vast of spase. Zerefor peopl vuld bi saikologikali mor komfortabl in spelin soch diffikult vords.
Title: Re: English is a very stupid language
Post by: IBB on February 23, 2010, 08:45:27 PM
I agre viz yu Oga BGZ. However I want to draw yor atention to ze "tink" you wrot abov, I zink it shuld be zink, given "TH" wuld be chang to "Z".

Zank yu
Title: Re: English is a very stupid language
Post by: bakangizo on February 24, 2010, 04:20:09 PM
Zank yu for ze korektion. But I also zink zat ze kombination of 'tion' for ze 'shin' sound should bi removd. Zis vay, peopl kan zen spel such vords vithout hawin to pay extra atenshin!
Title: Re: English is a very stupid language
Post by: IBB on February 25, 2010, 03:35:12 AM
Dont menshin yu ar always welkom
Title: Re: English is a very stupid language
Post by: Ibro2g on May 17, 2010, 10:45:55 AM
you guys are just hilarious lol
Title: Re: English is a very stupid language
Post by: Bayya on June 09, 2010, 12:20:53 PM
 

   Guys these examples are simply not enough to condemn a language.
Title: Re: English is a very stupid language
Post by: bakangizo on June 09, 2010, 06:00:15 PM
It wasn't condemned.
Title: Re: English is a very stupid language
Post by: ummutameem on June 09, 2010, 11:15:02 PM
yo haji b, u dey this world so? ya ne???????

@ bkgz my humble advice is dont go into d whole english thing wit bayya, hes a freaky english guy!

and bayya really, nobody condemned ur language, i agree d caption is a bit..... iffy (if dats a word), but hey, lets poke at good ol language of d queen.
Title: Re: English is a very stupid language
Post by: bakangizo on June 10, 2010, 06:54:05 PM
Quote from: ummutameem on June 09, 2010, 11:15:02 PM
@ bkgz my humble advice is dont go into d whole english thing wit bayya, hes a freaky english guy!

I see. And I thot he'd be more into hindu considering his name  ;D
Title: Re: English is a very stupid language
Post by: ummutameem on June 11, 2010, 11:31:11 AM
oh d name is hindu but dats where it stops.

bayya i think u shld seize dis opportunity to clear d air, sort of like wat prof. did on hausa music(though i have no idea wat dat was all about)