That Isn't a Word!
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@scottalanmiller said:
As the largest lexicon in spoken history, knowing all words in English is effectively impossible.
Which is why (as I understand it anyway) English is the hardest language to learn as there are so many words, and different words for the same thing, and 'same words' for different things.
Hmm... that there is a run on sentence..
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@g.jacobse said:
@scottalanmiller said:
As the largest lexicon in spoken history, knowing all words in English is effectively impossible.
Which is why (as I understand it anyway) English is the hardest language to learn as there are so many words, and different words for the same thing, and 'same words' for different things.
Hmm... that there is a run on sentence..
I remember when I was younger wondering how people had such a hard time with English. I was ignorant at the time. It wasn't until I took Spanish in school that I learned how structured even the other Latin-based languages are. You compare those to English and English is a cluster...
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@ajstringham said:
People here told me how people in APAC use that all the time,
Well, don't believe them. As an APAC resident, I'd like it to go on record that I don't use it all the time. In fact, I've never used it.
I may have heard it used once before but that was more than likely a sales rep whose native language was not English. -
@ajstringham said:
English is a cluster...
Fuster Cluck?
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@nadnerB said:
@ajstringham said:
People here told me how people in APAC use that all the time,
Well, don't believe them. As an APAC resident, I'd like it to go on record that I don't use it all the time. In fact, I've never used it.
I may have heard it used once before but that was more than likely a sales rep whose native language was not English.It's possible. The guy had a crazy thick accent.
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@ajstringham said:
I remember when I was younger wondering how people had such a hard time with English. I was ignorant at the time. It wasn't until I took Spanish in school that I learned how structured even the other Latin-based languages are. You compare those to English and English is a cluster...
English is a Germanic language, it is not Latin based at all. The Latin based family (called Romantic languages) are primarily French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Romansh. English is closest to German, Dutch, Swedish, Icelandic, Danish and Norse.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Icelandic
Well, that explains a lot
Icelandic is regarded as one of the most difficult languages in the world to learn -
@nadnerB said:
Icelandic is regarded as one of the most difficult languages in the world to learn
Right after English itself probably
Icelandic is actually nearly identical to Old English. Old English is so different from modern English that it looks like a foreign language. But take Beowulf to Iceland and while it is odd and bizarre, they can nearly read it. Icelandic is the closest to the English root language that lives today and basically remained as it is today for a thousand years or more. Really interesting.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@nadnerB said:
Icelandic is regarded as one of the most difficult languages in the world to learn
Right after English itself probably
Icelandic is actually nearly identical to Old English. Old English is so different from modern English that it looks like a foreign language. But take Beowulf to Iceland and while it is odd and bizarre, they can nearly read it. Icelandic is the closest to the English root language that lives today and basically remained as it is today for a thousand years or more. Really interesting.
Ah Beowulf...
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If you like that, you should read Gilgamesh!
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Upgradation. I need to start using this now. I have to admit, I have not heard it before. Does anyone have examples of how it is correctly used?
I am performing an upgradation of the network this weekend, so be prepared for brief outages.
Is that correct?
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@StrongBad said:
Upgradation. I need to start using this now. I have to admit, I have not heard it before. Does anyone have examples of how it is correctly used?
I am performing an upgradation of the network this weekend, so be prepared for brief outages.
Is that correct?
That is technically correct. It's not a common word that I'd ever heard before I was here.
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Upgradation is a perfectly cromulent word!
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@Nic said:
Upgradation is a perfectly cromulent word!
Cromulent is nearly two decades old now. Nearly Shakespearean at this point.
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@garak0410 Moot point, not mute point.
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@Huw3481 said:
@garak0410 Moot point, not mute point.
You missed the joke. "irregardless"... "mute"... showing how people butcher the English language
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@art_of_shred I didn't think you lot did subtle humour...
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@Huw3481 Apparently I don't.
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@Huw3481 said:
@art_of_shred I didn't think you lot did subtle humour...
We find that it is often too subtle and those across the pond tend to miss it.
