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 Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:04 pm
With Jaft... anything could be the point. :3
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:07 pm
there their they're.
I hate it too. I don't understand it and I'm born and raised with it.
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:07 pm
Yay for silent letters. Much better than noisy letters.
Speaking of noisy, who wants to help me silence my roommates and their friends? =D Free pie to whoever takes out the drum set.
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:11 pm
Large Inmate there their they're. I hate it too. I don't understand it and I'm born and raised with it. Isn't "there" kind of flat and monotonous, "their" focused on "ei", and "they're" kind of wavy, like "mayor"? Hm...
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:13 pm
Huh?
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Don't confuse me anymore than I already am!
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:13 pm
I think that the words could be pronounced in that fashion, Erius, but from common experience talking with people here people just seem to pronounce them the same.
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:15 pm
*shrugs*
I guess so...but then again...I'm not a native English speaker..and I mumble often cause I talk too fast =P
I'm sure there used to be a meaning behind their different spelling...though.
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:16 pm
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English.
The worlds most hated language.
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:17 pm
Erius Large Inmate there their they're. I hate it too. I don't understand it and I'm born and raised with it. Isn't "there" kind of flat and monotonous, "their" focused on "ei", and "they're" kind of wavy, like "mayor"? Hm...
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:18 pm
Erius Large Inmate there their they're. I hate it too. I don't understand it and I'm born and raised with it. Isn't "there" kind of flat and monotonous, "their" focused on "ei", and "they're" kind of wavy, like "mayor"? Hm... There's a tiny bit more of an é sound in "they're", at least for me (it's a falling dipthong), but "their" and "there" sound the same to me. Granted, English is my first language, so I don't think I would notice the slight differences.
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:22 pm
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What have I done??
There is a little difference in the way some people pronouce it. ... confused
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:23 pm
For being one of the most hated languages, it has become quite an International player when it comes to communication. :/
Personally, I'm fond of Esperanto as an International Auxiliary language, but... well... not enough people want to learn it (though it's pretty easy).
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:24 pm
You brought up something interesting (to phonetics geeks such as myself, anyway), that's what you did, LI.
Lin: I like the idea of Esperanto, I'm just pessimistic about it in general. It's hard enough getting people to learn a language when one's country is officially bilingual and language study is mandatory for at least a few years, let alone when it's a language a lot of people haven't even heard of.
And then there's the fact that I'm so overwhelmed by the idea of undertaking ANOTHER language, it just makes me want to give up. sweatdrop
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:24 pm
I hate dipthongs in music. English can be very annoying. I mean, my chemistry teacher pointed out that that you can spell "fish" like "pheti"
Ph=f sound
e=can make "i" sound like in "women"
ti=can make "sh" sound like in "action"
He is very bright man.
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:28 pm
But that's Phe ti not fish...
Ti makes the sh when you add tion to something...
I suck at pronouncing words...
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