Damn americans mutating our language !

Japanese is hard...
Well for many people anyways

That's prejudice, you obviously don't know much...

 

facepalm count raised

 

i'm gonna crack my facepalm sig out YEAH!!!

 

;D

 

This isn't a university paper.

[quote author=englishclub.com]
The history of the English language really started with the arrival of three Germanic tribes who invaded Britain during the 5th century AD. These tribes, the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes, crossed the North Sea from what today is Denmark and northern Germany. At that time the inhabitants of Britain spoke a Celtic language. But most of the Celtic speakers were pushed west and north by the invaders - mainly into what is now Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The Angles came from Englaland and their language was called Englisc - from which the words England and English are derived.
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[quote author=http://www.danshort.com/ie/timeline.htm]
In case you hadn’t made the connection, “England” <– “Engla Land” <– “Angle Land” (Land of the Angles, a people of northern old Germany). Their name lives on in the district of England named East Anglia, and also in the Anglican Church. In the present day there is still a region of Germany known as Angeln, which is likely the same area from which the original Angles came. Angeln lies in Schleswig-Holstein on the eastern side of the Jutland peninsula near the cities of Flensburg and Schleswig.
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[quote author=http://www.anglik.net/englishlanguagehistory.htm]
West Germanic invaders from Jutland and southern Denmark: the Angles (whose name is the source of the words England and English), Saxons, and Jutes, began to settle in the British Isles in the fifth and sixth centuries AD. They spoke a mutually intelligible language, similar to modern Frisian - the language of the northeastern region of the Netherlands - that is called Old English. Four major dialects of Old English emerged, Northumbrian in the north of England, Mercian in the Midlands, West Saxon in the south and west, and Kentish in the Southeast.
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he is saying the truth, you cant use that as a reliable reference, why? because anybody can edit that right there in wikipedia. If i wrote there that english is the native dialect of the French, is that reliable?

But its good you found other references.

 

i agree that most of the time Wikipedia gets you failed but my mate used it in his history degree last yeah and got away with it. ;D

 

cant argue with that, i'm too lazy to research those history things too and used wikipedia as a reference but i put it in the middle so that its just for additional references and not primary reference.

I really hope the admin there checks and locks up those data, not its like a open book and just delete or add anything stupid. In the future it may become reliable, but it has a long way to go.

 

I remember my friend at school copied out of some random book for 'original writing' and got a C

not bad

 

This is the funniest unrecognized post in this entire thread. I can't help but think it's a troll, but who knows. It's almost funnier to think that someone could be this illiterate while criticizing another country in regards to language.

 

I'm too busy talking the language of either french or english to pay attention to the spelling of words or the pronunciation of words either. The destruction of the english language is a cultural thing. A lot of the slang has been derived from either a different language (see: negro) or a mishmash of words, which more than just America does. That and in french, no matter where you go in Canada, it's a mishmash of french+english (Franglais we call it), why? Because the French settlers in Canada have been so heavily influenced by the English language that it 'evolved' or devolved depending which way you look at it into what it is today.

It also has something to do with accents. Newfoundlanders have the most atrocious slang ever and it's so damn hard to understand them. 90% of their slang is unheard of from people with a french or englo-canadian accent. Same works vice versa.

I'm pretty sure that the Canadian spelling of things derived from the spelling in England, but the slang is still here. Slang is alright, it's not destroying much but just adding a few useless words to everyone's vocabulary.

 

Let's all go back to Latin! ^_^

Or even LINEAR B!

 

I think that everyone should learn how to speak in binary......that would make for some interesting conversation.....

 

Cool, it'd be similar to the morse code thread from before

 

as long as we can understand each other, so why the fuss? it's not a bastardization of the english language, but merely a variant.

 

there are still going to be times though wher you are forced to use a "slang" spelling.

I for example now after 14 years of spelling sulphur have to change to the american spelling or risk losing marks in my GCSE chem coursework/tests. This irritates me to no end as i still spell it sulphur due to habit and as such i'm warned or even down marks which is preposterous.

I hope everyone enjoys the little bit of lingual flair and variety i brought in there. (spellchecked by PS3's predictive text dictionary which btw is shit...)

 

And we have the old Celts to thank for much of the spread of anglo-(insert other nation here) languages, as they had their fair share of fighting their jolly way up and down Europe and getting dominated and settled over themselves before dominating some more.

 

HELLS YEAH! to war mongering ancients

Hi 5 Mr Celt!

 

its nice but that would be to long.