"Good grammar is a tool of the bourgeoisie"

Post by **Tau** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 9:49 am

--Some jerkass on NationStates (source in the sig)

This is now a linguistics thread.

What features would you like to add to the English language (or any language in general)?

Saravanth · Post by **Saravanth** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 11:54 am

¿How about upside-down question marks?

Archduke Daynel, PhD · Post by **Archduke Daynel, PhD** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 2:31 pm

Saravanth wrote:¿How about upside-down question marks?

How about no?

Shadowcatbot · Post by **Shadowcatbot** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 2:47 pm

What feature would I like to add? I'd like to change the tag on the end to "Sole language of humanity".
We might be able to finally get some shit done if everyone speaks English. Then to just have the American government get off its ass and convert to metric finally.

Archduke Daynel, PhD · Post by **Archduke Daynel, PhD** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 3:12 pm

Should also like review the English language. Remove those hidden sounds.
Srsly like half the language isn't pronounced.

Vinyl · Post by **Vinyl** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 3:36 pm

Jew're welcome.

Shadowcatbot · Post by **Shadowcatbot** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 3:59 pm

Daynel wrote:Should also like review the English language. Remove those hidden sounds.
Srsly like half the language isn't pronounced.

You can blame the french for most of that, A lot of words like that came from when some French guy took over England.

Then there's words spelled different but pronounced the same, then words that have special pronunciations. Bleh.

Archduke Daynel, PhD · Post by **Archduke Daynel, PhD** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 4:02 pm

Shadowcat wrote:
Daynel wrote:Should also like review the English language. Remove those hidden sounds.
Srsly like half the language isn't pronounced.
You can blame the french for most of that, A lot of words like that came from when some French guy took over England.

Then there's words spelled different but pronounced the same, then words that have special pronunciations. Bleh.

Yeah, I know.
Also they wanted the language to look more like latin and greek.

Post by **Tau** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 7:32 pm

France's official language authority refuses to recognize 'e-mail' as a valid word, instead forcing all governmental institutions to say 'courier electronique'. Same with a lot of other 'slang' words, including their 'twerk' equivalent (don't remember off the top of my head).

And their spelling is bizarre.

I hate French.

ACH0225 · Post by **ACH0225** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 7:41 pm

I'd like to see the letter thorn(Þ, þ) returned to the English language. The sound it makes is th, like the or there.

Archduke Daynel, PhD · Post by **Archduke Daynel, PhD** » Sat Oct 11, 2014 1:04 am

Tau wrote:France's official language authority refuses to recognize 'e-mail' as a valid word, instead forcing all governmental institutions to say 'courier electronique'. Same with a lot of other 'slang' words, including their 'twerk' equivalent (don't remember off the top of my head).

And their spelling is bizarre.

I hate French.

At least it sounds nice, but other than that it's as useless as the rest of the country.

Professor Fenway · Post by **Professor Fenway** » Sat Oct 11, 2014 12:45 pm

English has the highest information rate of any language so far, so English therefore needs to be the primary language. Which means Mandarin has got to go.

Shadowcatbot · Post by **Shadowcatbot** » Sat Oct 11, 2014 2:28 pm

Professor Fenway wrote:English has the highest information rate of any language so far, so English therefore needs to be the primary language. Which means Mandarin has got to go.

Oh god don't get me started on the clusterfuck that is Chinese writing.

Saravanth · Post by **Saravanth** » Sat Oct 11, 2014 2:53 pm

On the other hand, Ascii pictures are much more diverse with mandarin, so it's 1:1 for now.

Archduke Daynel, PhD · Post by **Archduke Daynel, PhD** » Sat Oct 11, 2014 3:53 pm

Professor Fenway wrote:English has the highest information rate of any language so far, so English therefore needs to be the primary language. Which means Mandarin has got to go.

Oh but it's such a tasty fruit.

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