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Posted by: Kschreck
Actually English is the third most spoken language. For those who don't believe me, Google It!!!


Than what is the first, Elvish?

  • 08.08.2004 7:16 PM PDT
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Posted by: Ericimo
Posted by: Kschreck
Actually English is the third most spoken language. For those who don't believe me, Google It!!!


Than what is the first, Elvish?


he knows sh.it

english is number 2, only behind that Chinese crap called Mandarin because like 25% of people on this earth are nippers anyways

  • 08.08.2004 7:21 PM PDT
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Y, were u gonna write somethin original or just post other people's work without siting it.

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Posted by: teebo
Y, were u gonna write somethin original or just post other people's work without siting it.


no, i cited it

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Posted by: Gpappy
maybe some of these homos will relize halo is not everything, and there is life outside of bungie.

i fuc king hate all these people


U Need To Chill

  • 08.08.2004 7:42 PM PDT
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no

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U didn't cite anything.

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yes

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Hokay everyone lets chill. I can speak a few languages and for every person foreign to Australia or western culture I've spoken to, they find it very difficult to learn the english language. I've heard it once before that by the year 2050 or something that the english language will be the official world language.

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Posted by: Egyptian Jackal
davester do you like men?


only in the morning


HAHAHA! Hey, that really made me laugh :P

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Posted by: Egyptian Jackal
davester do you like men?


only in the morning


HAHAHA! Hey, that really made me laugh :P


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actually i think chineese is the most spoken language. think about it their are 2-1/2 billion chineese people that means that like 1/4 of all humans are chineese. and japan has like 2 alphabets so how can we have the most words in our one alphabet then their 2?

  • 08.09.2004 7:00 AM PDT

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Posted by: Y
English is the most widely used language in the history of our planet. One in every 7 humans can speak it. More than half of the world's books and 3 quarters of international mail is in English. Of all the languages,it has the largest vocabulary - perhaps as many as 2 MILLION words. Nonetheless, let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb thru annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preacher praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue?

Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?

Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who ARE spring chickens or who would ACTUALLY hurt a fly?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm clock goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it.



are u crazy

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This is by far the most well thought out post ever. Thank you for showing the otheres that school is important, not just Halo 2. but i bet a mod will be knocking any moment now.

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those of you who said english is easy, yes it is as a PRIMARY language, but if you try to learn it as a secondary language, it is hard. oh and btw there is no way you mastered english when you were 5

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Umm... I hate to nitpick, but the plural of index IS indices, or indexes. (Merriam-Webster Online).

And English IS one of the hardest languages to learn as a SECOND language. For those of us for whom it is a Primary language, no, it isn't hard to learn because we haven't learned the much more structured gramatical forms of other languages first. English is my first language, and I can speak French moderately fluently. I know that it was much easier for me to learn French than it was for some people I know who knew French first to learn English.

(Edit: Damn PCKL300 beat me to it)

[Edited on 8/9/2004 8:19:21 AM]

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