Re: the english language
crab bait,<br /><br /> For those who may not understand our comments, please refer to the topic "spam patrol". <br /><br /> I agree with you on both points.<br /><br /> <br /> Firstly, moderator1 must have got ticked because we strayed from his original topic so he closed the thread. Took his proveribal ball and went home
. Can't say as I understand the motives since none of our comments were in bad taste nor pejorative. Only comment I would make to moderator1 is "Well done for patrolling and controlling the spam".<br /><br /> Secondly, I also agree with your phonetic spelling of Univeristy (YOU NA VER CITY). I can't type phonetically on my pc as the special characters are not available. Closest I can come to Websters is Yóó-ne-vur-si-te. Note that both Websters and your phonetic spelling begins with the consonant sound of "Y" which is why we say "a" university rather than "an" university.<br /><br />Now... on the lighter side of the crazy English Language:<br /><br /> <br />Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?<br />Did you know that "verb" is a noun?<br />How can you look up words in a dictionary if you can't spell them?<br />If a word is misspelled in a dictionary, how would we ever know?<br />If two mouses are mice and two louses are lice, why aren't two houses hice?<br />If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?<br />If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue?<br />If you've read a book, you can reread it. But wouldn't this also mean that you would have to "member" somebody in order to remember them?<br />In Chinese, why are the words for crisis and opportunity the same?<br />Is it a coincidence that the only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable?<br />Is there another word for a synonym?<br />Shouldn't there be a shorter word for "monosyllabic"?<br />What is another word for "thesaurus"?<br />Where do swear words come from?<br />Why can't you make another word using all the letters in "anagram"?<br />Why do fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing?<br />Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?<br />Why do people use the word "irregardless"?<br />Why do some people type "cool" as "kewl?"<br />Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?<br />Why do we say something's out of order when its broken but we never say in of order when it works?<br />Why does "cleave" mean both split apart and stick together?<br />Why does "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing?<br />Why does flammable and inflammable mean the same thing?<br />Why does the Chinese ideogram for trouble symbolize two women living under one roof?<br />Why does X stand for a kiss and O stand for a hug?<br />Why doesn't "onomatopoeia" sound like what it is?<br />Why don't we say "why" instead of "how come"?<br />Why is "crazy man" an insult, while to insert a comma and say "Crazy, man!" is a compliment?<br />Why are a wise man and wise guy opposites?<br />Why is abbreviation such a long word?<br />Why is dyslexic so hard to spell?<br />Why is it so hard to remember how to spell MNEMONIC?<br />Why is it that no word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple?<br />Why is it that the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary?<br />Why is it that we recite at a play and play at a recital?<br />Why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?<br />Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?<br />Why is the plural of goose-geese, and not the plural of moose-meese?<br />Why isn't "palindrome" spelled the same way backwards?
