January 26th, 2010, 08:32 PM | #21 |
Kurt Cobain 1967- 1994
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: @Home
Posts: 2,043
Thanks: 34,651
Thanked 78,263 Times in 2,044 Posts
|
Not always easy for me..!!!
For an Italian member who grew up in the Netherlands,
it's not always easy to read and reply in English After all, i have to make sense with what i write, ... This one is for our Dutch members... ik hoop voor alle Nederlandse leden dat ze een goed woordje Engels kunnen lezen en schijven. Dat zul je namelijk nodig hebben op dit forum. Tenzij je natuurlijk alleen maar naar plaatjes kijkt.. Let me translate,.. For all the Dutch members on this forum, it's important to understand the English language. But not for those who read the pics.. .
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. . |
The Following 9 Users Say Thank You to nevermind For This Useful Post: |
January 28th, 2010, 01:07 AM | #22 | |
Vintage Member
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 3,651
Thanks: 80,415
Thanked 32,734 Times in 3,527 Posts
|
Quote:
__________________
<-- That's Emer Kenny and I want to be stuck in her front bottom. Quote from electrofreak : I'd rather have questions that can't be answered, than answers that can't be questioned. |
|
The Following 9 Users Say Thank You to seany65 For This Useful Post: |
January 28th, 2010, 01:21 AM | #23 |
Veteran Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Aust
Posts: 4,195
Thanks: 209,876
Thanked 71,442 Times in 4,151 Posts
|
We don't deplane. Some idiot, at some stage, thought he could reinvent the language and in one country it seemed to catch on for some reason.
Dr. Nick Riviera from The Simpsons: "Inflammable means flammable?!?" |
The Following 11 Users Say Thank You to Tmee2020 For This Useful Post: |
February 10th, 2010, 01:45 PM | #24 |
Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 70
Thanks: 1,407
Thanked 501 Times in 63 Posts
|
|
The Following 6 Users Say Thank You to vierenweg For This Useful Post: |
February 10th, 2010, 01:50 PM | #25 |
Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 70
Thanks: 1,407
Thanked 501 Times in 63 Posts
|
Old joke.
Chinese language-student commits suicide after reading English newspaper headline, "Snow spells disaster." |
The Following 8 Users Say Thank You to vierenweg For This Useful Post: |
February 11th, 2010, 09:14 PM | #26 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: NW Indiana
Posts: 238
Thanks: 1,676
Thanked 2,536 Times in 228 Posts
|
An English Poem for you
When the English tongue we speak.
Why is break not rhymed with freak? Will you tell me why it's true We say sew but likewise few? And the maker of the verse, Cannot rhyme his horse with worse? Beard is not the same as heard Cord is different from word. Cow is cow but low is low Shoe is never rhymed with foe. Think of hose, dose,and lose And think of goose and yet with choose Think of comb, tomb and bomb, Doll and roll or home and some. Since pay is rhymed with say Why not paid with said I pray? Think of blood, food and good. Mould is not pronounced like could. Wherefore done, but gone and lone - Is there any reason known? To sum up all, it seems to me Sound and letters don't agree. Lord Cromer, 1902 |
The Following 12 Users Say Thank You to iufrenchman For This Useful Post: |
February 13th, 2010, 05:34 AM | #27 |
Veteran Member
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Frozen North
Posts: 1,537
Thanks: 18,772
Thanked 57,913 Times in 1,618 Posts
|
I believe English is the largest language (most words). Probably because the British Empire got everywhere, it is the second language in a huge number of countries and absorbs local words wherever it goes.
Unlike French there is no Government Department to keep the language "pure" hence it is ever growing. Ok now a question why is a condom called a French Letter in England but in France it is a capote anglaise?
__________________
VEF, Every day I discover a new favorite....... Tell me if you recognise someone in my posts. Last edited by mjefferys1; February 13th, 2010 at 06:00 AM.. |
The Following 9 Users Say Thank You to mjefferys1 For This Useful Post: |
February 13th, 2010, 07:30 AM | #28 |
Vintage Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 1,736
Thanks: 144
Thanked 14,338 Times in 1,702 Posts
|
When my Dad was in France in 1944 he saw a notice on a cafe window "Le five o'clock a quatre heures" ....... *tea at four o'clock"
|
The Following 10 Users Say Thank You to knobby109 For This Useful Post: |
February 20th, 2010, 01:13 PM | #29 |
Moderator (Retired)
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Cheam AKA the land of Cheese and Canals
Posts: 6,352
Thanks: 156,898
Thanked 140,021 Times in 6,511 Posts
|
Gerard Nolst Trenité - The Chaos (1922)
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, ass, 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! |
The Following 12 Users Say Thank You to Jeff Vader For This Useful Post: |
February 20th, 2010, 01:21 PM | #30 | |
Moderator (Retired)
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Cheam AKA the land of Cheese and Canals
Posts: 6,352
Thanks: 156,898
Thanked 140,021 Times in 6,511 Posts
|
Quote:
In Greek they tend to pronounce every letter and sometimes the syllables can be different, I have Greek friends who pronounce Hello as hay-lo instead of Hell-o. I'm going to guess that the original root or language of the word will tend to determine the pronunciation ? For example, words derived from Latin might be pronounced one way, whereas words from Arabic will have different syllabic sounds ? Yes/no ? |
|
The Following 11 Users Say Thank You to Jeff Vader For This Useful Post: |
|
|