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| From | Barry Punchard <barry.punchard@btinternet.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.acorn.misc |
| Subject | Re: RamDisc0 |
| Date | 2011-11-17 20:19 +0200 |
| Organization | Home |
| Message-ID | <feb9ac3352.barry.punchard@barry.btinternet.com> (permalink) |
| References | (2 earlier) <52311afdc9dave@triffid.co.uk> <d17b9c3152.news@mistymornings.net> <5231a9f2c1ajg@argonet.co.uk> <3cfe3b3352.news@mistymornings.net> <4ec53ec2$0$2500$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr> |
On 17 Nov heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> On 16/11/2011 22:47, workstuff@mail.com wrote:
>
> > I realised recently that I have been mis-spelling "pronounciation"
> > and "hononyms" all my life.
>
> The first one is understandable given how you make pronOUncements and
> pronOUnce things, yet this is your pronUncitation?!?
>
> I believe that every language has a certain "bull" factor. In French, we
> could say it is the gender issue which doesn't seem to serve any actual
> purpose.
Oh, I think you'll find it does. Being a little older, I know these
things. ;-)
>
> English, on the other hand, is a fairly simple easy to learn language.
Yes, I found I could learn it at the age of 1 or younger. But then again my
parents spoke it.
> Until you get to the specifics. Like how to look at a word with "ough"
> in it and know how to say it correctly. Why is "Woking" not said like an
> Asian utensil, but is "whoa-king"?
You must be joking!
> If the "in" suffix negates something (incoherent, inconsistent), then why the
> hell does flammable and INflammable mean the same thing? One could argue that
> correct proper English is a very difficult language due to all this "bull".
>
The words about 30 years ago were inflammable and non-inflammable. There was no
such thing as flammable. Then along came people who couldn't speak English and
started burning themselves because they thought they were non-inflammable, when
actually they were inflammable. They suggested we call it 'flammable' instead
and the linguists amongt us became inflamed and flamed the ignorant ones, but to
no avail.
That is the problem these days. Over the past thousand years or more we have
borrowed from the Greek, but with the current Greek debt crisis, they have
started to borrow from us.
You know it makes sense!
> Best wishes,
>
> Rick.
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