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Governor Swill wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 09:03:28 +0200, Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de>
> wrote:
> 
> >Am Freitag000013, 13.06.2025 um 19:14 schrieb The Starmaker:
> >> Thomas Heger wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Am Dienstag000010, 10.06.2025 um 12:56 schrieb Governor Swill:
> >>>> On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 07:04:30 +0200, Thomas Heger wrote:
> >>>>> Am Freitag000006, 06.06.2025 um 08:03 schrieb Gronk:
> >>>>>> Governor Swill wrote:> On Sat, 31 May 2025 08:41:43 +0200, Thomas Heger
> >>>> <snip>
> >>>>>>    > Prussian disappeared in the 17th century - before globalization.
> >>>>>>    > Conquest, military and non military can wipe out small languages.
> >>>>>>    > Cultures can be absorbed by larger ones leading to loss of a language.
> >>>>>>    > Russian is as common as Ukrainian in Ukraine. There are a few common
> >>>>>>    > second languages today.  English, French, Japanese, Spanish, Italian
> >>>>>>    > and lately Chinese.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> German was actually a 'lingua franca', too.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Chinese on the other hand is no language you like to learn for fun.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Especially writing in Chinese is REALLY difficult.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The language itself has also disadvantages.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This can be seen in many translations from Chinese in what they like to
> >>>>> call 'manuals'.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> These little papers reveal a lack of something called 'grammar', hence
> >>>>> the language has a lack of possibility to express certain subtle ideas.
> >>>>
> >>>> English is quite common in Asia.  In photos of cities English signs
> >>>> can often be seen and not all are 'brand names'.
> >>>
> >>> Sure.
> >>>
> >>> But that 'English' isn't the language of the British Islands.
> >>>
> >>> The problem is, that the iternal logic of Chinese makes Chinese speakers
> >>> almost certainly bad speakers of English.
> >>>
> >>> This is why many 'English manuals' of products from China are more funny
> >>> than useful.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> English has disadvantages, too, but which are quite irrelevant for most
> >>>>> speakers of English as a second language:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> English has an insane amout of diffent words (~one million)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> English has also a number of totally illogic rules and special cases.
> >>>>
> >>>> This is largely because English comes from the same Indo European
> >>>> branch as German but is heavily modified by the Romance languagues,
> >>>> especially French.   Owing to the Conquest, a huge number of Old
> >>>> French words entered common usage in England, often delineating class.
> >>>> For example, Britons ate pigs, but the French conquerors served it
> >>>> with fine wine and called it pork.
> >>>
> >>> English had a HUGE number of ancestors, who had left their marks in the
> >>> English language.
> >>>
> >>> Keltic languages
> >>> Latin
> >>> Danish
> >>> French
> >>> German
> >>> Dutch
> >>> Hindi
> >>> Kisuaheli
> >>> ...
> >>>
> >>> TH
> >>
> >> That is whay Daniel Webster invented the "Webster Dictionary"...to get
> >> rid of
> >> all these foreign influences.
> >>
> >> In Mexicao they say "tele"
> >> In Britian they say "tele"...
> >>
> >> in the United States we say...Television!
> No, we don't.  We say "TV".

At your house they all speak in abbreviations cause Television has too
many sylabbles.


How about idiot box? or is 3 sylabbles still to much???


how about boob tube?


Don't get you panties in a knot trying to say Television!


tveeeeeeee








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