Please don't tell me that you pronounce the 'T' in "often"... Or, do you?

[GammaGlobulin]

Dear Folks,

 

What is happening to this world of Social Media, not to mention the perversion of the English language, that.....

 

These days:

 

There is an increasing number of illiterate speakers of English who pronounce the T in the simple word OFTEN....???

 

What is going on here?

 

If you have been alive for the past few decades, then you might know.

 

For example, even today, Google Translate does NOT pronounce the T.

 

But, then why is this happening, today with humans?

 

....meaning.....

 

Are there just too many non-native English speakers who are diluting, warping, and perverting the English language, mostly via....

Social Media?

 

Every time I hear some weirdo from the "Global South" trying to utter simple words, like OFTEN, and mispronouncing it....I ....

Just want to die.

 

I mean: The guys from the Global South say.....

 

ofTen

ofTen

ofTen.....!!!!!!!!!

 

How many more times do we need to listen to these people before we retreat to a cave, somewhere.....???

 

Because, for sure....

 

The number of these culturally illiterate guys invading our language, warping it, and perverting it.....

Is rapidly increasing.

 

We are losing our entire culture, just through having our English language watered down...all over the world....and

Especially in Singapore, where they speak, mostly, Singlish.

 

What can be done?

 

We need a plan.

 

Best regards,

Gamma

 

 

[DrJack54]

Vehicle 

[save the frogs]

I wish I could say it ain't so, Joe

but sometimes I do.

 

 

[simon43]

The problem GG is that YOU are not a native speaker of English.  In England, (note the name - it is where English is spoken), educated people pronounce the letter T in the word 'often'.  I was brought up by my academic parents (language professors) to pronounce the letter T...

 

Those without a decent education will not pronounce the letter T.  That's how it is...

 

GG, you are speaking American, not English.  American is a bastardised form of the original language.....  🙂

[GammaGlobulin]

9 minutes ago, simon43 said:

The problem GG is that YOU are not a native speaker of English.

 

I knew that.

 

[Gsxrnz]

GG - translate this.  Air hair lair. 

[GammaGlobulin]

6 minutes ago, Gsxrnz said:

GG - translate this.  Air hair lair. 

 

Well, if you know so much about English...

 

Then, do tell me....

 

What color is:

 

a. A nut-brown bowl

b. Nut-brown hair

 

What color is this in proper English, anyway?

 

We often hear about Nut-Brown this, or that.

But, what, exactly is the color Nut-Brown, anyway, as applied to a bowl or a woman's hair....?

 

We never say Nut-Brown in America.

I guess you know.

 

I think it must be the Irish who say this, most.

 

 

[bkk6060]

6 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

We never say Nut-Brown in America.

No.  But they will say peanut butter brown.  

[Rampant Rabbit]

I dont pronounce the w in anker

[Gsxrnz]

9 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Well, if you know so much about English...

 

Then, do tell me....

 

What color is:

 

a. A nut-brown bowl

b. Nut-brown hair

 

What color is this in proper English, anyway?

 

We often hear about Nut-Brown this, or that.

But, what, exactly is the color Nut-Brown, anyway, as applied to a bowl or a woman's hair....?

 

We never say Nut-Brown in America.

I guess you know.

 

I think it must be the Irish who say this, most.

 

 

 

Approximately 88,52,33. 

[faraday]

20 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

I knew that.

 

 

So, why did you create the thread if you knew the difference between English, as it is correctly spoken, and the American version?

 

 

[NE1]

What pi55ses me off is the amount of people saying Aks instead of Ask.

And hearing an American news reader saying " Unalived him " instead of "  killing him ".

[Rampant Rabbit]

14 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Then, do tell me....

 

What color is:

its a missing ewe

[novacova]

2 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Google Translate does NOT pronounce the T.

Google Translate is stupid.

[Rampant Rabbit]

3 minutes ago, NE1 said:

What pi55ses me off is the amount of people saying Aks instead of Ask.

And hearing an American news reader saying " Unalived him " instead of "  killing him ".

and " haitch" and worse of all skedule instead of shedule its  all a load of skit

[Gsxrnz]

Just now, novacova said:

Google Translate is stupid.

 

...and Amurcan. 

[faraday]

17 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

We never say Nut-Brown in America.

Incorrect, according to Pantone:

 

Nut Brown Color | #86695e

[Rampant Rabbit]

4 minutes ago, NE1 said:

What pi55ses me off is the amount of people saying Aks instead of Ask.

And hearing an American news reader saying " Unalived him " instead of "  killing him ".

what pisses me of "like" is the amount of young kids who "like" cant string a few words together " like" without mentioning "like"

[faraday]

2 minutes ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

its a missing ewe

Leave the sheep's alone...😁

[Rampant Rabbit]

Just now, faraday said:

Incorrect, according to Pantone:

 

Nut Brown Color | #86695e

one of my customers used to call it n igger brown she was 98yrs old back in 1990 now the stupid censors here will probably remove this cuz someone is going to take offence bwah ha ha

[Rampant Rabbit]

1 minute ago, faraday said:

Leave the sheep's alone...😁

part Welsh its in the genes

[faraday]

1 minute ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

part Welsh its in the genes

 

No doubt he'll admonish you & tell you that's the incorrect shpellin' of Jean's

 

 

[Rampant Rabbit]

Just now, faraday said:

 

No doubt he'll admonish you & tell you that's the incorrect shpellin' of Jean's

 

 

its ok i can fall back on  my silent "a" above

[bubblegum]

27 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Well, if you know so much about English...

 

Then, do tell me....

 

What color is:

 

a. A nut-brown bowl

b. Nut-brown hair

 

What color is this in proper English, anyway?

 

We often hear about Nut-Brown this, or that.

But, what, exactly is the color Nut-Brown, anyway, as applied to a bowl or a woman's hair....?

 

We never say Nut-Brown in America.

I guess you know.

 

I think it must be the Irish who say this, most.

 

 

It's colour !

[Gottfrid]

53 minutes ago, simon43 said:

The problem GG is that YOU are not a native speaker of English.  In England, (note the name - it is where English is spoken), educated people pronounce the letter T in the word 'often'.  I was brought up by my academic parents (language professors) to pronounce the letter T...

 

Those without a decent education will not pronounce the letter T.  That's how it is...

 

GG, you are speaking American, not English.  American is a bastardised form of the original language.....  🙂

You seem to be very proud of telling that the UK English is far superior and the right one again. Please consider the information below, and you will find that your real English did not even originate in your precious country:

English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands. The Anglo-Saxons settled in the British Isles from the mid-5th century and came to dominate the bulk of southern Great Britain. Their language originated as a group of Ingvaeonic languages which were spoken by the settlers in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages, displacing the Celtic languages, and, possibly, British Latin, that had previously been dominant.

[dinsdale]

Of-fen/Off-ten. Both forms are acceptable.

[gamb00ler]

2 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

How many more times do we need to listen to these people before we retreat to a cave, somewhere.....???

We're all waiting for you to lead us..... Happy Trails!  We hope your write offen.

[KannikaP]

45 minutes ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

and " haitch" and worse of all skedule instead of shedule its  all a load of skit

And what about VYNIL instead of VINYL?

[KannikaP]

30 minutes ago, Gottfrid said:

You seem to be very proud of telling that the UK English is far superior and the right one again. Please consider the information below, and you will find that your real English did not even originate in your precious country:

English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands. The Anglo-Saxons settled in the British Isles from the mid-5th century and came to dominate the bulk of southern Great Britain. Their language originated as a group of Ingvaeonic languages which were spoken by the settlers in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages, displacing the Celtic languages, and, possibly, British Latin, that had previously been dominant.

It also has quite a bit of Norman French/Latin included.

[emptypockets]

Shirley,prolly, offen do.