Saturday, November 14, 2020

Fun and Frustration with The English Language


The English language has some confusing peculiarities to it that result in English struggles, but heck, most languages have some phonetic and semantic weirdness winding through them. And English isn't the only strange language. Here's a post defending the English language and how it's not the only weird language out there.

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Text - Text - aaronsmithtumbler Older forms of English kept Latin's gender-specific suffixes -tor and -trix3; tor is for men and trix is for women. So a male pilot is an aviator, a female pilot is an aviatrix. A male fighter is a gladiator, a female fighter is a gladiatrix. This contrasts with the modern system, where tor is for both men and women, and trix are for kids. val-ritz YOU COME INTO MY HOUSE Source: aaronsmithtumbler

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Text - Text - little-john1994 fester-and-cousin-it June 25th 2015, 6:08:53 pm - 2 minutes ago thelifeofatubaplayer: thelastmellophone: espurr-roba: consultingmoosecaptain: dalekitsune: the phrase "curiosity killed the cat" is actually not the full phrase it actually is "curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back" so don't let anyone tell you not to be a curious little baby okay go and be interested in the world uwu See also: Biood is thieker than water The blood of the covenant is

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Text - French: ..Sixty-seven, sixty-eight, sixty-nine, sixty-ten... Other languages: **stares* French: **stares back** French: ...sixty-eleven, sixty-twelve sixty-thirteen... French: ..sixty-sixteen, sixty-ten- seven... Other languages: "shutting eyes* French: ...sixty-ten-eight, sixty-ten- nine... Other languages: *hands over face* French: ..four twenties! :) Four twenties one...

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Text - Text - Tal Waterhouse @iiTalW People who can't distinguish be- tween etymology and entomology bug me in ways I cannot put into words. 10:01 PM 02 May 18

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Text - Why is baked pronounced baked but naked isnt pronounced naked? Gugulethu Mhlungu @GugsM Because, as someone said, English is not a language, it's three languages wearing a trench coat pretending to be one. O Like Comment Share O=0 3.4K Jordyn Wintyrz and 18.4K others shared this Most Relevant v Charlie Short pretty bold of you to say that since you got named after the sound a plunger makes 4h Like Reply 0 183

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Text - beesmygod: "chuffed doesnt mean what you think it means" chuffed 4) [chuhft] 2 Show IPA adjective British Informal. delighted; pleased; satisfied. Origin: 1855-60; see chuff, -ed? chuffed? 4) [chuhft] ? Show IPA adjective British Informal. annoyed; displeased; disgruntled. it means exactly what i think it means its just some stupid word that literally has two definitions that mean the opposite thing what the hell This makes me really chuffed This post is quite egregious e gre gious i'grēj

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Text - ace-nyctophyle any noun can become a verb if you don't care enough * yupokaysuremhm This point is invalid unless you use an example in your sentence ace-nyctophyle I CAN SENTENCE HOW I WANT THANK A yupokaysuremhm BEAUTIFUL mysterytinyfox you see thats why i love english ailithnight I like to velociraptor around my house at 2 in the morning. ace-nyctophyle GOOD not-to-be-a-tea-but-brit My headache makes me want to clothesline into a wall enquires-state-building why do these make some sembl

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Text - itsagifnotagif S pheelluminati Follow hxasinthus i wish it was 1600 so i cood spelle words howe everr my harte desyred holisticfansstuff Source: hxasinthus #thou canst spelle wyrds howevere thou liekest alraedye if thou isntst a couweurde Tags via @aziraphalesbian fluorescentjellyfish Please no this is how French happened Source: hxasinthus 110,640 notes

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Text - Text - Junie Dyana @DyanaTweets Do French people smoke weed or oui'd Sherman_Beardman 1.3k points 2 years ago The fact that Kansas and Arkansas are pronounced differently bothers me way more than it should. madamplease 13.7k points 1 year ago Pronouncing words that end in 'ough'. Cough, bough, rough, dough, through, though... Vaxtin 47k points 4 years ago Is the "S" or "C" in scent silent? AdventurousMan 4.6k points 4 years ago Why does fridge have a "D" in it, but refrigerator doesn't? D

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Text - Matthew Anderson @MattAndersonBBC Things native English speakers know, but don't know we know: Traducir del inglés adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion- size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you'll sound like a maniac. It's an odd thing that English speaker uses that list, but almost none of us could write it

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Text - kidouyuuto: how did they learn to translate languages into other languages how did they know which words meant what HOW DID TH English Person: *Points at an apple* Apple French Person: Non c'est une fucking pomme *800 years of war*

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Text - languagebender why divide people by unrational things when you COULD divide them by whether their word for cotton candy is valid or not ? languagebender examples: american english: cotton candy good british english: fairy floss X not valid spanish, german: sugar cotton good french: daddy's beard X NOT VALID berenswick I'm sorry the French call it what

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Text - historical-nonfiction Bugs Bunny accidentally transformed the word nimrod into a synonym for idiot because nobody got a joke where he sarcastically compared Elmer Fudd to the Biblical figure Nimrod, a mighty hunter. omegajako Etymology is ridiculous and terrifying sometimes garbage-empress Bugs Bunny is more powerful than God libertarirynn He also solidified the idea of rabbits loving carrots when carrots actually carry very little nutritional value for rabbits. The funniest part of that

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