SAD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWN9rTc08GU
Makes sense... 

Aceshigh said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWN9rTc08GU
Makes sense...

Ah man, I haven't seen that in forever. It mildly upsets me that all anyone ever thinks of him as is a watermelon smashin' buffoon. 

Really English orthography is pretty screwy. That's what we get for being the bastard child of at least 4 languages that we know of with borrowings from dozens more. A patchy history can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_English_language 

"If a dictionary lists 'enough' as 'enuf,' the spelling bee goes by the dictionary, therefore all the spelling words are easier to spell, so the spelling bee is gone," Evans said.

Oh noes, you can't waste your time practicing for a pointless competition! You have to socialize with people! 

if there was ever an acronym on the internet that fit something so well ... it would be...

GTFO 

MoeHimself said:

Ah man, I haven't seen that in forever. It mildly upsets me that all anyone ever thinks of him as is a watermelon smashin' buffoon.

Gallagher is the only person who is bald with long hair and still cool.

Also, you fucking protesters.
/shakes fist 

sounds like 40% of the population needs to have their right to vote taken away... jus sayin'. 

sounds like 40% of the population needs to have their right to vote taken away... jus sayin'. 

I look forward to the day when my mates and I speak a different language than the people around us. 

I see your Gallagher, and raise you Twain:

"For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.

Generally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeiniing voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x"— bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez —tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivili.

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld." 

chapel said:

I see your Gallagher, and raise you Twain:

"For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.

Generally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeiniing voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x"— bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez —tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivili.

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld."

Twain was a LOLCat? 

im al for it. speling shudnt b so dam konfyuzing. 

Dude, guys, English is hard. 

Some words ARE really hard to spell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2nTbqbtGug 

so we should change our entire language to lolcats? this is the kinda thing that makes me embarrassed to be american... 

MeatPopsicle said:

Oh noes, you can't waste your time practicing for a pointless competition! You have to socialize with people!

I appreciate a kid taking arms against an idiotic adult, but I didn't care much for his point. 

I keep finding more and more ways to be impressed with Twain. That guy was awesome. 

Silly bunts 

chapel said:

I see your Gallagher, and raise you Twain:

Sadly, that wasn't Twain. 

The screwiness of English is precisely why it is so great! Coded in each inconsistency is wonderful, wonderful HISTORY (for anyone willing to look). That's worth making it hard for some people to learn imho. 

ju66l3r said:

Sadly, that wasn't Twain.

awww 

Roberta Mahoney, 81, a former Fairfax County, Va. elementary school principal, said the current language obstructs 40 percent of the population from learning how to read, write and spell

Don't know about you lot, but this side of the pond her name is often correctly pronounced "Marney". A delicious irony.

Oh, and BTW,

Oh noes, you can't waste your time practising for a pointless competition! You have to socialise with people!

Fixed. 

Me fail English? That's unpossible! 

o mi god wee shood toe-tullee dum down the inglish langwej. the dum kidz cant reed good.

russxl said:

The screwiness of English is precisely why it is so great! Coded in each inconsistency is wonderful, wonderful HISTORY (for anyone willing to look). That's worth making it hard for some people to learn imho.

In 100 years, I'm sure the proper spelling of the word "enough" will be "enuf" but for right now, I like our archaic language. 

Man, I facepalmed the shit out of this article 

Giblets said:

Gallagher is the only person who is bald with long hair and still cool.

Dead wrong. Bill Bailey is way cooler.

He plays the keyboard! He plays guitar! He smokes a pipe! 

Captain Spod said:

Don't know about you lot, but this side of the pond her name is often correctly pronounced "Marney". A delicious irony.

Oh, and BTW,

Fixed.

They're interchangeable you aspie. 

Blue Wolf 63 said:

Dead wrong. Bill Bailey is way cooler.

He plays the keyboard! He plays guitar! He smokes a pipe!

That's all well and good, but who the hell is he? 

I know Korean is a very phonetic language with a very straight forward alphabet and way of spelling, just wondering if anybody knows about how it affects literacy/education there? I don't know a word of Korean, but I was able to learn the alphabet and be able to write any given word in a matter of about 3 hours... 

mediaphile said:

That's all well and good, but who the hell is he?

I've already proven my point. Also, have you heard of google? 

Yeah, I was actually just kidding. 

I'm sorry, I missed the Gallagher love-in.

The man could have been the equal to George Carlin or Bill Hicks, if he simply had not pandered to the dumbasses that wanted to see watermelons blowed up. 

Dead wrong. Bill Bailey is way cooler.

Now I miss Black Books. 

Steven Wright is a long haired baldy and is cooler than both the others mentioned... 

A few unusual Engrish words that bother me:

Know (and any variation of the word)
Cough
Enough
Sew
Bomb
Tomb
Comb
Gnat
Gnarly
Lamb
Taught
Caught
Right
Tight
Ghost
Afghan
School
Cholera
Archaic
Chinch
Choir

These words make no sense. But I wouldn't change them for a billion-trillion clams. 

Lots of English words are just bastardizations of words from other languages. Kinda silly. That's why as a member of the Grammar SS, I struggle to preserve today's words for tomorrow. 

To be honest I do love our language. I try my hardest to make sure I use it correctly. I can see the difficulty to learn it as a second language especially coming from an Asian country. Even in text messages I try to make sure I use apostrophes and correct punctuation. It may take a bit longer but it makes me feel better. 

mediaphile said:

Lots of English words are just bastardizations of words from other languages. Kinda silly. That's why as a member of the Grammar SS, I struggle to preserve today's words for tomorrow.

Have you seen Kyle? 

This protest is pointless. Anybody that can't grasp at least the basics of the English language (I would consider the word "enough" to be pretty basic) is either dyslexic, in which case there is plenty of support, or an idiot, in which case it's like a little test to weed them out.

I don't think a simplification of the English language is really necessary. All languages are codes, ours is just marginally more complex than a lot of others. If you make it simpler you don't necessarily make it easier. There are still lots of difficult aspects of our language to learn and most of the complexities do have a purpose. It's easy enough to simplify words but meaning then gets more complex. Take a word like "roam". It could, and perhaps should, be rome. Do you go roming? Or romeing? Or rome-ing? Or "coming". Should it be cumin? Cuming? Come-in?

You can't really simplify the English language. You can make it a bit easier but you'll throw up just as many questions as you solve. Besides, it's not really that difficult, is it? 

Slorgasm said:

A few unusual Engrish words that bother me:

Know (and any variation of the word)
Cough
Enough
Sew
Bomb
Tomb
Comb
Gnat
Gnarly
Lamb
Taught
Caught
Right
Tight
Ghost
Afghan
School
Cholera
Archaic
Chinch
Choir

These words make no sense. But I wouldn't change them for a billion-trillion clams.

You seem to take issue with G's and H's. Sounds like a personal problem to me. 

It was all I could think of at the time. They don't really bother me, it just bothers me when they are misspelled. 

Receipt, debt, and pique anger me to no end. Not because of being misspelled or anything, but because they inappropriately touched me when I was 7.

YOU CAN'T CONTROL ME ANY LONGER! /runs off crying 

It's okay, psychology and weird raped me when I was 12.

/rubs IG88's back

You wanna talk about it? 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti 

mattrmcg said:

Man, I facepalmed the shit out of this article

This.

These people are retards, protesting on how words are spelled...wtf? Go do something productive. If they want to spell "fruit", "froot", but I want to spell it "frewt", then where does it end?

And are they going to do anything else other than stand out in front with their signs trying to make someone else make a change? Nope. Maybe it's the beer talking but these people need hot skallding coughee thrown rite n there faces. 

Wow. Reducing everything to the lowest common denominator- the idiot- is just plain stupid. If you can't learn to spell, then maybe you are just one of the 50% of the population that isn't above average. That's ok, as the world still needs unskilled labor. 

Maybe it's the beer talking but these people need hot skallding coughee thrown rite n there faces.

Ma-bee its thu crak-co-kan toking 

Aceshigh said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWN9rTc08GU
Makes sense...

too bad he didn't include the word 'manslaughter' in that vid 

Moist...funny word 

OMGWTFM8