timkeen08 Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 2 minutes ago, Kieran00001 said: When Americans pronounce as 'learnt' but spell as 'learned,' do you see a touch or irony in what you claim as is it not the Americans in this case who are adding to the disparity between pronunciations and spellings which makes English a difficult language for many to learn and prevents it becoming a more widely accepted international language? NO. And NO. Try proofreading. Sorry if I got you all riled up. End of post as far as I am concerned. Fire away, no reply from me. I have got more important things to do than trying to prove who is right. It reakly doesn't matter to me. Have a good night, I will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timkeen08 Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 2 minutes ago, Kieran00001 said: I was actually just providing some laughs considering what you said about that particular spelling and who you claimed used it in the US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieran00001 Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 4 minutes ago, timkeen08 said: NO. And NO. Try proofreading. Sorry if I got you all riled up. End of post as far as I am concerned. Fire away, no reply from me. I have got more important things to do than trying to prove who is right. It reakly doesn't matter to me. Have a good night, I will. There is only one question and the sentence is good, try reading again before calling out on proof reading next time. As for me bring riled up, try reading your little outburst back to yourself. I called your claim ironic which to you equalled me being riled up and so you responded by telling me essentially the same thing four times, clearly riled up and pretty hilarious! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieran00001 Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 7 minutes ago, timkeen08 said: Is this the silent treatment, from the one who is keeping his cool? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhys Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 ...World Englishes.. buds... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumbastheycome Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 3 hours ago, Jonah Tenner said: I learned Oxford English in school more than fifty years ago, starting when I was 12, I never got around to learning English grammar, because when I was 14 I was dumped into a class in a local English language school in Petaling Jaya - learn, swim or sink. 18 months of this and I was yanked out of that school, shipped to my home country, dumped in school with my old classmates, who had had another curriculum than me (girls for one, english grammar for another), failed at everything in school. Three months of this and I was moved to Colombo and told: You have to read on your own for one year... In terms of communicative language seems to have been to an advantage ! ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumbastheycome Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 Ok. I am going to stick my oar in. English as a language has evolved to be what it is from composite origins . The Grammar of it is contrary . But its origins are from England as based /derived from Germanic/Anglo Saxon etc . "American" English is derivation of that. Formulated by semi educated immigrant escapees from Europe due to various reasons including famine. Perhaps to some credit superfluous vowels became omitted from words such as honour, colour and others. But rather than deliberately as a consequence of reduced educational conventions of English spelling. Not dissimilar to the the reduction of the Imperial "gallon" in volume to the now accepted US gallon which could be accorded to best guess in setting the standard rather than a deliberate and blatant deception. ? That any American could/can/does attempt to argue some superiority in defence of Ameriglish could be seen as a demonstration of the basic inferiority complex so many have. Why not accept the concept of " International" English ? It just might add to some advantageous communication rather than arguementation. lol Ok. Nucular Me ! . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catoni Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 On 6/16/2018 at 7:18 AM, KiwiKiwi said: Mandarin, but my opinion is mere hearsay, I think I know because that's what I was told by someone who I should have learned not to trust. Agree your point about rote learning. I have no probnlem with 13*12=156. because when I was a lad I had to repeat the times tables ad nauseam. But I do remember them and that puts me streets ahead of a Thai, with or without a calculator. I'm the same way..... learned lots of things by "rote" learning in school in the 1950's and 1960's. The "Times Tables" being one... repetition after repetition... drilled into our heads...I'm still good with the "Times Table" today because of it. Knowing the "Times Table" is also a great aid to doing fast division in your head. If we lose our smart phone or iPod Touch or calculator we aren't lost if we need to work out some basic math in our heads quickly. I find that to be a great benefit. Really comes in handy quite often. Same with spelling and grammar and important dates in history. History is still one of my great interests all my life... I love having that knowledge.. I'm not saying that other ways of learning are no good. I'm sure they are good. BUT ! ! Rote learning works really well... no doubt about that. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumbastheycome Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 15 minutes ago, Catoni said: I'm the same way..... learned lots of things by "rote" learning in school in the 1950's and 1960's. The "Times Tables" being one... repetition after repetition... drilled into our heads...I'm still good with the "Times Table" today because of it. Knowing the "Times Table" is also a great aid to doing fast division in your head. If we lose our smart phone or iPod Touch or calculator we aren't lost if we need to work out some basic math in our heads quickly. I find that to be a great benefit. Really comes in handy quite often. Same with spelling and grammar and important dates in history. History is still one of my great interests all my life... I love having that knowledge.. I'm not saying that other ways of learning are no good. I'm sure they are good. BUT ! ! Rote learning works really well... no doubt about that. For sure rote learning the Times Table and the letters of the alphabet are instances where it has some advantage. Maybe in individual instance also. However I can not understand how mimic or parroting a language provides any real comprehension. To learn to sing a song or say a poem in an unknown language simply by memorising it does not require any understanding of the words. I can happily sing along to a kareoke song in Thai but little comprehension of what I am singing. lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newatthis Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 12 hours ago, Dumbastheycome said: Ok. I am going to stick my oar in. English as a language has evolved to be what it is from composite origins . The Grammar of it is contrary . But its origins are from England as based /derived from Germanic/Anglo Saxon etc . "American" English is derivation of that. Formulated by semi educated immigrant escapees from Europe due to various reasons including famine. Perhaps to some credit superfluous vowels became omitted from words such as honour, colour and others. But rather than deliberately as a consequence of reduced educational conventions of English spelling. Not dissimilar to the the reduction of the Imperial "gallon" in volume to the now accepted US gallon which could be accorded to best guess in setting the standard rather than a deliberate and blatant deception. ? That any American could/can/does attempt to argue some superiority in defence of Ameriglish could be seen as a demonstration of the basic inferiority complex so many have. Why not accept the concept of " International" English ? It just might add to some advantageous communication rather than arguementation. lol Ok. Nucular Me ! . This is the way to go {many thanks to David Brown}: The European Commission The European Commission has announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU, rather than German, which was the other contender. Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had room for improvement and has therefore accepted a five-year phasing in of "Euro-English". In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make sivil servants jump for joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k", Which should klear up some konfusion and allow one key less on keyboards. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f", making words like "fotograf" 20% shorter. In the third 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 horible mes of the silent "e" is disgrasful. By the fourth 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 similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and everivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. ZE DREM VIL FINALI COM TRU! Herr Schmidt 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayboy Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 13 hours ago, Dumbastheycome said: Ok. I am going to stick my oar in. English as a language has evolved to be what it is from composite origins . The Grammar of it is contrary . But its origins are from England as based /derived from Germanic/Anglo Saxon etc . "American" English is derivation of that. Formulated by semi educated immigrant escapees from Europe due to various reasons including famine. Perhaps to some credit superfluous vowels became omitted from words such as honour, colour and others. But rather than deliberately as a consequence of reduced educational conventions of English spelling. Not dissimilar to the the reduction of the Imperial "gallon" in volume to the now accepted US gallon which could be accorded to best guess in setting the standard rather than a deliberate and blatant deception. ? That any American could/can/does attempt to argue some superiority in defence of Ameriglish could be seen as a demonstration of the basic inferiority complex so many have. Why not accept the concept of " International" English ? It just might add to some advantageous communication rather than arguementation. lol Ok. Nucular Me ! . You forget that in the early days of colonial and independent America (say 1650 - 1800) immigrants were motivated as much by the wish for religious freedom as anything else and were not escaping from extreme poverty.That came later in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.It's misleading to stress the "semi educated" aspect of the earlier settlers.If you study the social history of America at this time it's very clear this was a well educated and intellectually vibrant society.The founding fathers of the Revolution were astonishing accomplished men with Thomas Jefferson for example - but not uniquely - a near genius.What is sometimes characterized as debased American English is in many cases the vocabulary and accent of their English ancestors.Language moved on in England as it does everywhere but with the interesting consequence that in many cases current American colloquial English is in fact close to the language of their seventeenth century English ancestors. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Somchai Logic Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 Wait!!! What??? Didn't Gen. Cha Cha Cha say that Thai was going to be the new English??? This kid better pull his head in 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timkeen08 Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 17 hours ago, Kieran00001 said: Is this the silent treatment, from the one who is keeping his cool? It is the next day and I have a few minutes. Did you not read my last comments "End of post as far as I am concerned." Or "Fire away, no reply from me." or "Have a good night, I will." or just not understand them. You kept commenting with some foolish silent treatment remark. 17 hours ago, Kieran00001 said: Is this the silent treatment, from the one who is keeping his cool? When Americans pronounce as 'learnt' but spell as 'learned,' would have made a more proper partial sentence if you had instead used - What Americans pronounce as .... But as I stated, most Americans do not use learnt so your whole sentence is way out of context from what I did say anyway. Please read carefully. I am signing off on this discussion. It has become boring. Bait all you want I have stopped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overherebc Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 (edited) 21 minutes ago, timkeen08 said: It is the next day and I have a few minutes. Did you not read my last comments "End of post as far as I am concerned." Or "Fire away, no reply from me." or "Have a good night, I will." or just not understand them. You kept commenting with some foolish silent treatment remark. When Americans pronounce as 'learnt' but spell as 'learned,' would have made a more proper partial sentence if you had instead used - What Americans pronounce as .... But as I stated, most Americans do not use learnt so your whole sentence is way out of context from what I did say anyway. Please read carefully. I am signing off on this discussion. It has become boring. Bait all you want I have stopped. Just say the two words Past Passed. Two sound exactly the same but mean different things. Why can't one word have two different spellings, depending on 'side of the pond' and mean the same thing? Only asking. Edit. Smelt, a kind of small fish. ??? Edited June 18, 2018 by overherebc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieran00001 Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 1 hour ago, timkeen08 said: It is the next day and I have a few minutes. Did you not read my last comments "End of post as far as I am concerned." Or "Fire away, no reply from me." or "Have a good night, I will." or just not understand them. You kept commenting with some foolish silent treatment remark. When Americans pronounce as 'learnt' but spell as 'learned,' would have made a more proper partial sentence if you had instead used - What Americans pronounce as .... But as I stated, most Americans do not use learnt so your whole sentence is way out of context from what I did say anyway. Please read carefully. I am signing off on this discussion. It has become boring. Bait all you want I have stopped. Engage with what is being said rather than how it is being said, it make you look less of a tit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timkeen08 Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 2 minutes ago, overherebc said: Just say the two words Past Passed. Two sound exactly the same but mean different things. Why can't one word have two different spellings, depending on 'side of the pond' and mean the same thing? Only asking. I don't have to be across from any pond to explain your error. The two do not sound exactly the same, similar maybe, but I do get your drift. I say past with a definate "T" sound ending and passed with a definate "ed" sound ending like I was taught in America schools but maybe that is the British way of pronouncing these two similar sounding but actually quite different sounding words. That is yet another example of why I will stick to my American way of pronouncing words as so many in the world do. I am so glad that I have never had or heard of a British sounding English teacher in all my school years, in any subjects I attended and I changed schools every three years moving with my Dad from US Army post to army post. And, I never ran across a British sounding teacher during tech school and college even as I "passed" by people in the hallways. That is quite a few schools and teachers. Boring, and an easy answer. I am going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overherebc Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 1 minute ago, timkeen08 said: I don't have to be across from any pond to explain your error. The two do not sound exactly the same, similar maybe, but I do get your drift. I say past with a definate "T" sound ending and passed with a definate "ed" sound ending like I was taught in America schools but maybe that is the British way of pronouncing these two similar sounding but actually quite different sounding words. That is yet another example of why I will stick to my American way of pronouncing words as so many in the world do. I am so glad that I have never had or heard of a British sounding English teacher in all my school years, in any subjects I attended and I changed schools every three years moving with my Dad from US Army post to army post. And, I never ran across a British sounding teacher during tech school and college even as I "passed" by people in the hallways. That is quite a few schools and teachers. Boring, and an easy answer. I am going. So you say pass-'ed' not pass'd? Sounds odd to me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timkeen08 Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 7 minutes ago, Kieran00001 said: Engage with what is being said rather than how it is being said, it make you look less of a tit. tit for tat, bye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAKAPALITA Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 I still find Alooominum one of Yanks worst abortions of English. Are they deaf.?.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overherebc Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 16 minutes ago, HAKAPALITA said: I still find Alooominum one of Yanks worst abortions of English. Are they deaf.?.. Stangely enough it may have been us Brits that corrupted the name. Not sure though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAKAPALITA Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 It was easier to learn English for me years 75 ago. We only had BBC News, crisp and concise. Now its all Ekky Thump, Jordy, Cockney, all hard to understand dialects for beginners today.Just to annoy the Yanks, my Ancestors who are in Alaska speak easy clear English when sober, well the old ones do !.,the Kids talk filthy Rap Rubbish like most kids today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eligius Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 4 minutes ago, overherebc said: Stangely enough it may have been us Brits that corrupted the name. Not sure though. It seems (according to the Free Dictionary online) that the word was coined around 1812 and was an alteration of the earlier word, 'alumium'. So - it would appear that the Brits are closer to the original form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timkeen08 Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 21 minutes ago, HAKAPALITA said: I still find Alooominum one of Yanks worst abortions of English. Are they deaf.?.. There are two different recognized words for element 13. The American Chemical Society ACS designated that aluminum be used in America? The IUPAC determined that both are acceptable and the use of either word is an abomination. Two German chemists actually are credited as the first to isolate aluminum. It has nothing to do with Britain or America. They could not decide who was first. It should be called Orstedium or Wohleralum. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eligius Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 (edited) 12 minutes ago, timkeen08 said: Two German chemists actually are credited as the first to isolate aluminum. It has nothing to do with Britain or America. They could not decide who was first. Interestingly, the German word for aluminium is 'Aluminium', the Spanish word is 'aluminio', and the French word is also 'aluminium' - the same as the British version. In fact, all the major European languages have what is basically the British form. It appears that the American version is the odd-man out (not that that makes it wrong, of course). Edited June 18, 2018 by Eligius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timkeen08 Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 Just now, Eligius said: Interestingly, the German word for aluminium is 'Aluminium' - the same as the British version. Actually the Germans adopted it from the British. They were just too embarrassed about their past indecission to choose between the two German chemists. Either way the IUPAC determined that both the American/Canadian and British words are acceptable End of discussion and quit quibbling over punctuation marks and such. And who did what. It has l ready been established. Anyone else is trolling or baiting for their limited fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAKAPALITA Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 7 minutes ago, timkeen08 said: There are two different recognized words for element 13. The American Chemical Society ACS designated that aluminum be used in America? The IUPAC determined that both are acceptable and the use of either word is an abomination. Two German chemists actually are credited as the first to isolate aluminum. It has nothing to do with Britain or America. They could not decide who was first. It should be called Orstedium or Wohleralum. It was an Englander Davey who found the Salt/ Mineral, and a Danish who made the first specimen. After that Canada Alcan cornered the market, not America, they invented Chewing Gum and Coke and the word Modesty.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timkeen08 Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 3 minutes ago, HAKAPALITA said: It was an Englander Davey who found the Salt/ Mineral, and a Danish who made the first specimen. After that Canada Alcan cornered the market, not America, they invented Chewing Gum and Coke and the word Modesty.. But the Germans were the first who isolated the 13th element. If the decission was made which one did islolate 13 first then he would have been the one who named the element as is tradition. All the other names, 8 minutes ago, HAKAPALITA said: It was an Englander Davey who found the Salt/ Mineral, and a Danish who made the first specimen. After that Canada Alcan cornered the market, not America, they invented Chewing Gum and Coke and the word Modesty.. Troll or baiter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post overherebc Posted June 18, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted June 18, 2018 28 minutes ago, timkeen08 said: There are two different recognized words for element 13. The American Chemical Society ACS designated that aluminum be used in America? The IUPAC determined that both are acceptable and the use of either word is an abomination. Two German chemists actually are credited as the first to isolate aluminum. It has nothing to do with Britain or America. They could not decide who was first. It should be called Orstedium or Wohleralum. Orstedium sounds like Glaswegian for Hampden Park. ??? 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overherebc Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 Artifacts from chinese tombs dated 3rd century AD have been found consisting of 85% alumxxxxxxxxx . You finish the word. ???? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAKAPALITA Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 14 minutes ago, timkeen08 said: But the Germans were the first who isolated the 13th element. If the decission was made which one did islolate 13 first then he would have been the one who named the element as is tradition. All the other names, Troll or baiter? QED. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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