Originally posted by Lira
There's some controversy around it, actually. The Cambridge Dictionary of English does recognise it as a word equivalent to "all right". It's just a matter of time until it officially merges, and I'm not even consistent in its use: If you look it up on google, you can find quite a few "alrights" typed by me :p
I bet you didn't know you could search for your own posts on google, did you? Hah :D
The controversy stuff is exactly what showed up. Explained a lot of what surrounded it, etc.
As for knowing about searching TA using Google, yes, I did know. In fact, I use it as opposed to the TA search since it works 100x better. :p
Lira
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Originally posted by gehzumteufel
The controversy stuff is exactly what showed up. Explained a lot of what surrounded it, etc.
As for knowing about searching TA using Google, yes, I did know. In fact, I use it as opposed to the TA search since it works 100x better. :p
Meh, it's no fun being a geek among geeks :D
By the way, while we're in this thread, let's get the good stuff from Facebook to this thread...
... We need more videos of that girl behind Sen. Franken, now!!! :D
Domesticated
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Originally posted by Fledz
I don't know who this is but I just came across her on another site and in terms of looks, that's about as close to perfection for me as you can get :eyespop: :eyespop: :eyespop:
Sorry, but that is a silly thing to say and you've done it several times in this thread. How can you say that about a person who you've only seen two heavily manipulated photos of? Until you've seen a real life, non-modelling shot of a person (or a video), I refuse to believe you can give an accurate assessment of their looks.
Fledz
Is "learnt" a word? I always thought it wasn't but apparently it is.
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Originally posted by Domesticated
Sorry, but that is a silly thing to say and you've done it several times in this thread. How can you say that about a person who you've only seen two heavily manipulated photos of? Until you've seen a real life, non-modelling shot of a person (or a video), I refuse to believe you can give an accurate assessment of their looks.
Bah, do we need to go through this again?
I making a simple comment based on two photos and I do agree with you actually, but why look so deep into it?
I'm well aware of "angles" and airbrushing. I'm not that naive ;)
Domesticated
'Learnt' is correct in English, while 'learned' is correct in Americanese. The situation is the same with burnt/burned, spoilt, spoiled, et cetera. There is no difference in meanings.
Fledz
Ah interesting. Looks like I've been spelling things correctly then.
Apart from where Z replaces S. Damn Americans have bastardised(bastardized) the language and it's confusing me.
Domesticated
Just use 's' for everything. Laser, Americanise, categorise, err...upsise, pluralise.
gehzumteufel
Too many letters in the English language have the same sounds.
Fledz
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Originally posted by Domesticated
upsise
:wtf:
Lira
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Originally posted by gehzumteufel
Too many letters in the English language have the same sounds.
And there are too many sounds assigned to a few letters/digraphs. English is a living proof of how disastrous it is to ignore the evolution of a language, and even try to conform it to your view of what it should be like.
It's unbelievable that "tough", "though", "thought", and "through" don't rhyme any more, yet they keep the spelling of a time they did. I can't think of a single English dialect in which "tuff", "tho", "thot", and "thru" wouldn't fix this mess. With the exception of "thot", I've seen all these spellings being used in a way or another, though.
The words "debt" and "island" have silent letters that have never been part of the actual these words in English ("debt" was borrowed from French as "dete", and "island" had already become "igland" in Old English), and these silent letters were introduced by over-zealous grammarians that thought Latin had reached the pinnacle of human communication, and language went downhill from there.
Spelling in Portuguese also has some similar problems, and could well use a reformation... but, quite ironically, politicians (!) decided it would be better to unify the spelling of all Portuguese speaking countries to the detriment of phonetic fit. What a wonderful idea!
Fledz
Croatian spelling ftw! The only true phonetic language in the world (apart from the dirty Serbs).
Ok so our grammar sucks ass but you can't have it all.
Lira
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Originally posted by Fledz
Croatian spelling ftw! The only true phonetic language in the world (apart from the dirty Serbs).
Ok so our grammar sucks ass but you can't have it all.
:stongue:
Actually, there are other writing systems with a good phonetic fit. English just happens to be on the chaotic side of the spectrum, whereas Croatian is on the tidy one... and Portuguese is somewhere in the middle.
Edit: Anyone else, as soon as you enter this thread, automatically stares at Naoko Mori's breasts? It's incredible how I always click this thread, wait for it to load, see a pair of breasts, take a while to understand what's going on, and only then I scroll down to remember what this thread is about :p
