Understanding English!
#11
09-02-2006, 07:25 AM
Originally Posted by Jackrabbit379
Originally Posted by roadhog
Texican.....awl
I also gotta get a new set of tars too. :P
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09-02-2006, 10:22 AM
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Re: Understanding English!
Originally Posted by Slimland
I would like to discuss the english language, actualy the spelling of it.
As You all know, I don't spell to good, Never could grasp the concept of Nouns, pronouns, verbs, action verbs. I learned more from "conjunction junction whats your function" than school, and still at my age, I do not get it!! Words Good and the word Food! They both have the last three letters but sound diffrent when pronouncing. so food should be fud, or good should be goed! knive's shouldn't have a K if it is silent, the letter is just sitn there! poor and pore-- Enough said on that one. Bud and bud light, don't they weigh the same? :lol: Tire and Tire, mean diffrent things on is you tire'd the other is a tire. peer, tyre-- why can't it be pyre or teer. canopea, why cant it be a can of corn. stern and learn, what about lern or stearn. ????????????????????????????
#13
09-02-2006, 12:58 PM
Well, in England they spell it tyre.
And if I rememer correctly, curb... is ... darn it... I can't quite remember. Kerb... that may be it. I don't know where my "English" dictionary is. I think about this same thing you're writing about a lot. I wonder if it's because different words come from different languages. I pronounce alot of things differently than most people ... I think that's because grandpa had a grocery store and spoke a lot of languages... so around the house, when they weren't speaking Polish, they used the words that sounded most like the language they came from. Foyer... for example. Lots of people say, foy er I learned it as ... darn it... now I can't remember how to say it... darn it. Foy A maybe. I think that's it. More like Foy E A the E A part real fast in comparison to the Foy part. Living in England was a trip. (ha) I gave a dinner party pretty soon after I got there, and I had no idea what people were talking about. Just when I'd be pretty sure I'd gotten it, they'd all laugh. And then I'd know that it wasn't what I'd thought because that wasnt' funny.
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#14
09-02-2006, 01:03 PM
Originally Posted by Jackrabbit379
Originally Posted by roadhog
Texican.....awl
I also gotta get a new set of tars too. :P
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#15
09-02-2006, 01:58 PM
Re: Understanding English!
Originally Posted by RockyMtnProDriver
Originally Posted by Slimland
I would like to discuss the english language, actualy the spelling of it.
As You all know, I don't spell to good, Never could grasp the concept of Nouns, pronouns, verbs, action verbs. I learned more from "conjunction junction whats your function" than school, and still at my age, I do not get it!! Words Good and the word Food! They both have the last three letters but sound diffrent when pronouncing. so food should be fud, or good should be goed! knive's shouldn't have a K if it is silent, the letter is just sitn there! poor and pore-- Enough said on that one. Bud and bud light, don't they weigh the same? :lol: Tire and Tire, mean diffrent things on is you tire'd the other is a tire. peer, tyre-- why can't it be pyre or teer. canopea, why cant it be a can of corn. stern and learn, what about lern or stearn. ????????????????????????????
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#16
09-03-2006, 10:43 AM
Originally Posted by golfhobo
When you've finished all that hard work, won't you be glad to have a nice cold glass of Assed Tay!! :lol:
#17
09-03-2006, 02:13 PM
Originally Posted by Jackrabbit379
Originally Posted by golfhobo
When you've finished all that hard work, won't you be glad to have a nice cold glass of Assed Tay!! :lol:
I missed this first time around, I was so curious about how an awl is used in a truck....
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#18
09-03-2006, 05:42 PM
Originally Posted by Consider
Originally Posted by Jackrabbit379
Originally Posted by golfhobo
When you've finished all that hard work, won't you be glad to have a nice cold glass of Assed Tay!! :lol:
I missed this first time around, I was so curious about how an awl is used in a truck....
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#19
09-03-2006, 05:57 PM
Thanks Golf,
Yes, I did finally get it. but by that time I'd missed the Assed tay. What a lovely thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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#20
09-04-2006, 01:10 AM
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Slim my friend, enunciation is a matter for the individual. I have a very broad "Geordie" accent and frequently struggle to make myself understood in most parts of southern england....
Am i bothered? Hadaway n shite! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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