More Peculiarities of the English language. (page 2)

Anti-Christ

If you think english is hard you should try learning french!

English is a living language it also has the abilty to use other words although butchered from other languages like karokee. Typicaly pronounced ka-ree-oh-kee when it is ka-roh-kee. Godzilla is another example Gojira is his real name but, it sounds like Godzilla when said by a native speaking japanese person when speaking really fast and panicky.

Got to love it !!!

Hail to the King Baby !!!!!!

needproof

La fille que j'aimera

Sera comme bon vin

Qui se bonifiera

Un peu chaque matin

5go

I like to tease ex-marines the hate the navy so I joke and say well why did they join them. Marine is the french word for navy. That and the marines are a part of the navy. To which I still get fools saying no it ain't.

hillbilly

ka-ree-oh-kee - a pallbearer from Tulsa

~Hill

Anti-Christ

needproof. Votre français est excellent. Ce poème je le connais bien. Modern english is a mix of languages including french.

Hortensia

another pathetic attempt to add to a thread

I tried to learn Mandarin Chinese once. The grammar is quite easy, a lot like ours but with no tenses, so verbs don't change according to the time something takes place. What is hard is saying the words, after a lesson my lips would hurt! I finally gave up - wasn't going back to China again anyway what with prices going up and bird flu and SARS and so on.

compound complex

Hey Clam,

This thread is my tea's cup, er, cup of tea! The meow of the cat, and the knees of the bees! I really need to get psyched up for this because, at the moment, I'm a frayed knot. I'm currently taking a romp through the sty of P.G. Wodehouse's PIGS HAVE WINGS and delighting in the felicities of what I believe to be the emergence of the then newly-developing British slang. Eye knead to calm down and return at another thyme. These topics give me a buzz. I don't want this thread to unravel.

CoCo

ninja

can I add..I think most of you would not understand my accent at all....yet I would understand most of yours....the reason? FAMILIARITY with the accent through television....it's rare to hear a Scottish accent on telly (apart from groundsman Willy on the simpsons who doesnt really sound scottish...the same as Scotty on star trek)but we hear American and Cockney accents constantly...just a thought

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