[terran_emperor]

proabably because IMHO...Silent and unnecessary letters should be banned.

Queue should be just Q
Cue should be q
Queen spellt Qween
Rescue spelt resq...

And all those uneccessary Ks like in "know"..."Knight" etc 

[Snail]

And I guess spelled should be spelt?

[Jeff Vader]

Queen spellt Qween

Qwiin

[Mobius]

proabably because IMHO...Silent and unnecessary letters should be banned.

Then study Italian. There are no silent/unnecessary letters.

[Snail]

Yeah but it comes from Latin. And anything that spawns from that infernal language is bound to be evil.

[Mobius]

Complicated grammar is good. Prevents misunderstandings.

[Snail]

Complicated grammar is good. Prevents misunderstandings.

Yeah but appropinquationistibus is rather unnecessary.

[Mobius]

I prefer that to:

"You're stupid(singular)" being the same as "you're stupid(plural)"

[Snail]

Six straight years.

[Mobius]

Eh? What do you mean? Six years of English for you?

[Snail]

It doesn't matter.

Only an idiot would get that joke anyway...

[Mobius]

You moved to the UK six years ago, right?

[Admiral Edivad]

Then study Italian. There are no silent/unnecessary letters.

like in german... everything esay to write and pronounce...




Durchschnittlich

[Snail]

You moved to the UK six years ago, right?

7 this year.

[Mobius]

So? What's the connection with the subject of the discussion?

[zonination]

proabably because IMHO...Silent and unnecessary letters should be banned.

Then study Italian. There are no silent/unnecessary letters.

O RLY?
Capice Italiano?

che --> "kay"
buongiorno --> "bohn-jorno"
gnocchi --> "nyo-kee"

A lot of languages do this.

Yeah but it comes from Latin. And anything that spawns from that infernal language is bound to be evil.

And no, English is actually a Germane language.
Of course, German is derived from Latin, so you're partly correct there.
It's more like the grandson of Latin, not the direct spawn.

[Herra Tohtori]

<Enkripted mesidgs>

Juu aar not tolking öbaut gramar, juu'r tolking öbaut speling.

If ai rote Inglish hau ai pronauns it, juu vud häv sirius trabul riiding it.

Thas, it's betör to juus comon, estäblishd speling forms thän start äplaing juur oun öpinions öbaut hau diferent wörds äär spelt.

<Mesidgs ends>

<Deciphered message>
<You are not talking about grammar, you're talking about spelling.

If I wrote English how I pronounce it, you would have serious trouble reading it.

Thus, it's better to use common, established spellign forms than start applying your own opinions about how different words are spelt.
<Message ends>


On other news, the European Union has revealed plans for a groundbreaking English Spelling Reform. While English will continue to be one of the official langauges in Brussels, certain changes are being considered in order to help non-English speakers comprehend the complicated and often illogical English spelling rules.

"Euro-English", as it will be called, is expected to find international accetance, as it is logical, simple and abolishes the confusion between British and American English. Schoolchildren, parents and teachers especially will be delighted. Some resistance is expected with established writers, which will no doubt be overcome as older writers are replaced by younger, forward-thinking ones.

In order to ease the transition, a five-year plan is envisioned, over which the changes will be gradually introduced.

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with the "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should disapar.

By the 4th yer peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza.
Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Sometimes, it seems to me that Internet is already using this tongue instead of English being the Lingua Franca...

[chief1983]

German is not derived from latin I don't think, I thought only the Romance languages were derived from latin.  German came mostly from the invaders who were constantly coming in from the north and settled mostly in germany.  Britain exchanged hands so many times that its native language became sort of a hodge podge of languages, both Germanic and Romantic.  This is at least, how I've come to understand, and I may  have misunderstood a thing or two, but I'm fairly sure I'm right about English being a mix of the two, and German not being based on latin.  Might I point you to the language tree as an example.  As it shows, English is primarily Germanic, but the German branch has been separate since before Latin existed.  English merely shares a great deal of its vocabulary with the Latin languages.

[Wobble73]

I think you'll find there is some Celtic and Gaelic influences in English also.

[CP5670]

Moved to GD, as this has nothing to do with Freespace.

On other news, the European Union has revealed plans for a groundbreaking English Spelling Reform. While English will continue to be one of the official langauges in Brussels, certain changes are being considered in order to help non-English speakers comprehend the complicated and often illogical English spelling rules.

It actually makes some sense until the fourth point.