Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCT May 3-7, 2010 (1656-1660)
Carl-E:
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--- Quote from: Carl-E on 06 May 2010, 17:45 ---Other than foreign, they DO follow the "sounding like A" part of the rule. In fact, neighbor and weigh are in the little rhyme...
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Here are a few other exceptions to the rule: either, eider, ageing, protein, and absenteeism. I'm sure there are a lot more!
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Absenteeism and ageing don't count, they're root words ending in E that have a suffix beginning with I added on.
But the others, yeah - interesting...
So now's when we throw our hands up in the air and agree that English is a fucked up language, right?
Right?
Dliessmgg:
Only the details are fucked up. There's worse, like German or French.
Binary:
Worse still, Russian. Three genders, masculine, feminine and neuter (what possible logic is there to 'passport', 'document' and 'bread' being masculine, 'newspaper' and 'Russia' being feminine, and 'building', 'radio' and 'letter' being neuter?)
Oh, but it gets better. Six, count 'em, six 'cases' for nouns - nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, prepositional and instrumental. The case of a noun indicates the role that it plays in a sentence. In English this is done using word order, in Russian by altering the ending of the noun. So you don't just learn a noun, you have to learn all the possible additional endings it can take (and of course these also depend on the gender or whether it's plural). There are four types of regular declension, but also a whole set of irregular exceptions.
God, I hated Russian. Barely scraped a pass at school, never used it again.
Penquin47:
German has the same three genders. While I only got as far as four cases of nouns, that doesn't mean the other two don't exist in German.
Latin has three genders and six cases of nouns.
Greek has three genders. Dunno about cases, haven't got that far in Rosetta Stone yet.
Why I study languages: because it's FUN! (This is not sarcasm. I studied German, French, and Spanish in school, and am studying Greek and Latin on my own and thinking about either picking Spanish back up because it's useful or starting Irish this summer.)
Binary:
Irish is easy. Memorise the simple phrase below and you'll be able to cope in a surprising number of situations.
WHALE OIL BEEF HOOKED
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