| Forum Home | ||||
| PC World Chat | ||||
| Thread ID: 144078 | 2017-07-03 01:26:00 | Dropping the "ing" | Roscoe (6288) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1436864 | 2017-07-23 23:31:00 | ......... with its old fashioned spelling. Sum ov hour forum frends arr stil duing that Ken :banana |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1436865 | 2017-07-23 23:39:00 | The French have the Academie Francaise whose task it is to keep the French language pure and free from foreign corruptions. but they are always fighting a losing battle. I remember the furore over all the 'Franglais' words creeping in, like 'le supermarket', and now they have 'le selfie' :) Now even the Acadamie themselves are proposing sweeping reforms like dropping the circumflex and re-writing school text books to simplify spellings. French purists have formed a campaign called #JeSuisCirconflexe to fight the Acadamie against the changes. www.theguardian.com Some years ago there was a comical article in Scientific American about pronunciations around the world and how difficult it was for some races to pronounce foreign words. An example was the French trying to pronounce the Norwegian word 'høst' meaning autumn. They can't, in French the 'h' is silent, they don't pronounce the final consonant, and the 'o' has been crossed out, so all that's left is 's' :clap |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1436866 | 2017-07-24 00:50:00 | Of course languages evolve! I mean really, what the heck do you know? I suggest don't even pretend to know about languages when you can barely speak your own. *sigh* But this is not English evolving at all - we are substituting Kiwi English for American English. The Americans have been speaking like that for about the last hundred years. We are losing our distinctive Kiwi way of speaking and are adopting the American way. That's what I am complaining about. Why do we want to speak like the Americans with their terrible way of bastardising the English language? |
Greg (193) | ||
| 1436867 | 2017-07-24 05:03:00 | But this is not English evolving at all - we are substituting Kiwi English for American English. The Americans have been speaking like that for about the last hundred years. We are losing our distinctive Kiwi way of speaking and are adopting the American way. That's what I am complaining about. Why do we want to speak like the Americans with their terrible way of bastardising the English language? Why would I wish to speak English like a Kiwi? |
mzee (3324) | ||
| 1 2 3 4 | |||||