[ExI] french and english are messed up, was: RE: test

[William Flynn Wallace]

(Well, others are writing 'couple days' in some of my fiction.)

French is crazy:  they think genre is one syllable.  Spelling as crazy as
ours.  Given that the French STILL  think their language ought to be the
lingua franca, (English is the lingua franca - weird) do you think they
will accept modernisms?  Of spelling?  Or words?  Ha.  I do read that
'weekend' has entered French, to the horror of the academics and
conservatives.

I took a Spanish dictionary to Costa Rica to a language academy - it was
dated around 1900.  I used words they had never heard of.  All languages
change.  But the adults never like what the kids are doing to it.  Will the
kids start speaking that way?  Instead of laughing, they'll say  'LOL  LOL
 LOL"

That reminds me of LOLS in NAD, which stands for Little Old Ladies in No
Apparent Distress - by a medical intern - ever read that?  A GOMER is "Get
Out of My Emergency Room''. GOMERS go to ground - i.e. fall off the bed.
And more.

It goes along with my thesis that everyone is pulling down the shades and
hoping the world won't change their tribe's way of life:  language, dress,
dancing, politics, eating (though the Brits though foreign invasions via
 foreign food was great).

I only studied Spanish aside from English.  It's a very logical language,
both in pronunciation and spelling.  Ditto Italiano, I think.  Hear it or
see it and you can pronounce it.  Pronounce it and you can spell it.  Also,
both are beautiful to hear, esp. Italian.

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 11:54 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> Quiet couple days, ja?
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> >…I see. You are one those who get rid of 'of'.   My mother is turning
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> >…What's so wrong or lengthy about 'couple of days'?
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> Nah is was a typo BillW.  I shoulda written “…coupla days...”
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> When writing informally, it is OK to write how you speak.  This explains
> how French got all messed up: they didn’t go along with that obvious
> expediency.  Now the French keep on spelling long after they are finished
> speaking.  Look at their crazy system.  Please any French-speakers here,
> can you kindly explain how the hell that -aux is pronounced o?  Why not
> just o?  Are not you inviting ridicule by the Brits, who intentionally
> murder the pronunciation to match the murderous spelling?  Ja, that’s what
> I thot too.  Now of course, the English scholars have witnessed with envy
> how the French messed up their language and long to do likewise.
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> But think about formality in writing.  A PhD thesis is letter-perfect but
> this stands to reason: it will be read by a dozen people henceforth and
> forever.  The writing here is informal, so we have open standards.  It will
> only be read by hundreds now, and thousands in the future, with the soft
> copy archives so that it will eventually be part of the body of “knowledge”
> used to train future AI.  You know they will want to snoop around in the
> ExI archives hoping to find the deepest roots of their family tree, that
> kinda thing, ja?  They will dig around in ExI, deciding who they want to
> thaw.
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> Hey AI, what an interesting thot-provoking chap I was, oui?
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