English sux

[Xcalibur]

What is that letter?

[Mint]

twenty second letter of the english alphabet?

[Xcalibur]

Name it.

With an exemple.

[Edited on 20-4-04 by Xcalibur]

[Mint]

V as in victory

[Nakiro]

"V"

Viking.
Very
Vanish

[Mint]

Pronounced: vee

[Xcalibur]

What is that letter, also.

Name it with an exemple.

[Nakiro]

U

Unicorn
Umbrella

[Xcalibur]

What is that letter

Name it with an exemple, too.

[Mint]

W: wild, wooly, windy

[Celexei]

W (Double U)
Wus
Walrus
Warrant

[Celexei]

your pointing out the fact that it should be a double V huh?

[Mint]

um, doubleyou

[Mint]

I feel like we are going to be the butt of a joke here. X has good english...

[Xcalibur]

Originally posted by Celexei
your pointing out the fact that it should be a double V huh?

Exactly.

English do sux, then.

It's double V, not double u.

That's a double U

Thanks for your answers, though.

[Edited on 20-4-04 by Xcalibur]

[Mint]

think of any word that starts with a V and substitute a W. Now say it aloud.

[Atlanteax]

Originally posted by Mint
I feel like we are going to be the butt of a joke here. X has good english...

I think you're onto something here... :duh:

[Celexei]

Wagina? and the above double U looks like a square guys ass.....:shrug:

Edited because scare and square are not the same word!

[Edited on 4-20-2004 by Celexei]

[Mint]

Originally posted by Celexei
Wagina? and the above double U looks like a scare guys ass.....:shrug:

I like wiolin and wictory. Lisping is fun.

[TheEschaton]

I feel like we are going to be the butt of a joke here. X has good english...

If by "good" you mean "a complete mangling and desecration of", then yes, I might agree to that statement.

-TheE-

[Celexei]

vell, vat about the nice german launguage. alot of W's that sound like V's

[Xcalibur]

Originally posted by TheEschaton

I feel like we are going to be the butt of a joke here. X has good english...

If by "good" you mean "a complete mangling and desecration of", then yes, I might agree to that statement.

-TheE-

I don't make jokes in english. I don't laugh of jokes in english.

I still have problems with those letters:

A, E, I, G, J.

We prononce E as I in french.

We prononce G as J in french.

We prononce J as G in french.

Booh english.

[Mint]

Originally posted by TheEschaton

I feel like we are going to be the butt of a joke here. X has good english...

If by "good" you mean "a complete mangling and desecration of", then yes, I might agree to that statement.

-TheE-

His phrasing is often off but his spelling is usually just fine.

[Mint]

well, except for words like pronounce

[Xcalibur]

Originally posted by Mint
well, except for words like pronounce

Thanks. When in doubt, use the word in your mother-langage and hope people will understand it.

I AM NOW ABLE TO MAKE SOME «TH» SOUNDS.

WOOOOOOOOOW ME.

[Nakiro]

<<TH>>

Put your tongue on the top of your mouth, close to the back of your upper teeth and a DUHHH sound.

[PowerMonger]

"I don't make jokes in english. I don't laugh of jokes in english.

I still have problems with those letters:

A, E, I, G, J.

We prononce E as I in french.

We prononce G as J in french.

We prononce J as G in french.

Booh english."


Well then it's a damn good thing the fucking French aren't going to be taking over any considerable segment of the planet anytime soon, eh? Booh to the disease that are the French.

[Mint]

Originally posted by PowerMonger
Well then it's a damn good thing the fucking French aren't going to be taking over any considerable segment of the planet anytime soon, eh? Booh to the disease that are the French.


Wonder how well you would do posting in french on a french message board, bub. I doubt you would make us proud...



[Edited on 4-20-2004 by Mint]

[Skirmisher]

Originally posted by Xcalibur
Exactly.

English do sux, then.

It's double V, not double u.

That's a double U

Thanks for your answers, though.

[Edited on 20-4-04 by Xcalibur]

Go take an english course already.

This is old news. Do I whine to spanish speakers about the letter Y sounding like E, the letter E sounding the letter A, tilde's and LL's?
No.:violin:

Suck it up and accept its a different language even if there are many similarities.

Here's a word from your own country.

Hoser.

[Xcalibur]

Originally posted by Skirmisher

Originally posted by Xcalibur
Exactly.

English do sux, then.

It's double V, not double u.

That's a double U

Thanks for your answers, though.

[Edited on 20-4-04 by Xcalibur]

Go take an english course already.

This is old news. Do I whine to spanish speakers about the letter Y sounding like E, the letter E sounding the letter A, tilde's and LL's?
No.:violin:

Suck it up and accept its a different language even if there are many similarities.

Here's a word from your own country.

Hoser.

My first whinning was not because of that, please use that brain my pms madame:)

W is double V, not double U.

What means Hoser?

p.s. I'm taking english courses 3 times a week, it's called "working-as-a-directory-assistance-phone-agent-(411)-with-99%-of-conversations-in-english-with-people-from-the-English-Canada-and-Northern-states-US.

Thanks!

[Wezas]

Haw Haw Haw! Je suis le Français!

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutenglish/doubleu

[Xcalibur]

They reckoned the proportions as follows:

Latin, including modern scientific and technical Latin: 28.24%
French, including Old French and early Anglo-French: 28.3%
Old and Middle English, Old Norse, and Dutch: 25%
Greek: 5.32%
No etymology given: 4.03%
Derived from proper names: 3.28%
All other languages contributed less than

Englifrench.

:lol:

[Nieninque]

Originally posted by Mint
well, except for words like pronounce

Erm...and Fantasies

[Xcalibur]

And: buy

[SpunGirl]

Hey, X, I have an idea. If you hate English so much, just give up on it, seriously. There are idiosyncrasies in every language that you must deal with if you hope to speak it. For example, people that are speaking French always sound as though they have loogeys in the backs of their throats.

You don't see me making a whole fucking thread about it.

-K

[Warriorbird]

I learned Hungarian. No complaining from you, X.

[Sweets]

I say stick with is X, I think you're improving quite a bit.

Skirmisher:What does Hoser mean? WTF are you talking about?

edited to add:

Ohhhhh right, Bob and Doug Mackenzie. I near about forgot about them. Funny back in the day.

*Ahem* Well then Take off, eh?

[Edited on 4-21-2004 by Sweets]

[Xcalibur]

Originally posted by SpunGirl
Hey, X, I have an idea. If you hate English so much, just give up on it, seriously. There are idiosyncrasies in every language that you must deal with if you hope to speak it. For example, people that are speaking French always sound as though they have loogeys in the backs of their throats.

You don't see me making a whole fucking thread about it.

-K

First I don't hate english. Second, I think it's stupid to call a W (double you)

What's loogeys? And even with not knowing what it is, I'll respond immediatly with this: it's false.

French is the most smooth langage, we have no R sounds like spanish that make it weird, we have no TH sound like in english like you guys have, we don't speak with the back of our throat like German, et cetera et cetera.

Sweets: thanks, trying my best, but man, it's tough!

[Skirmisher]

Originally posted by Xcalibur
French is the most smooth langage, we have no R sounds like spanish that make it weird, we have no TH sound like in english like you guys have, we don't speak with the back of our throat like German, et cetera et cetera.
Sweets: thanks, trying my best, but man, it's tough!

Hahahaha please please please don't make me remind you why that is.:lol:

[Xcalibur]

No no, remind me.

And post a picture, so I will remove the mental image I have of you.:)

[Skirmisher]

Ask Henri-Philippe Petain.

[Xcalibur]

Originally posted by Skirmisher
Ask Henri-Philippe Petain.

Henri Pétain was a military and political leader and France´s greatest hero in World War I (1914-1918). He was later condemned as a traitor for having headed the pro-German Vichy regime after France's defeat in World War II (1939-1945).
Born in Cauchy-ó-la-Tour in 1856, Pétain was educated at the Saint-Cyr military academy and the École Supérieure de Guerre (army war college) in Paris. As a general during World War I, he won fame for his successful defense of Verdun against the Germans in 1916. Later, as commander in chief, he did much to restore morale in the French army after a series of mutinies in 1917. He was made a marshal of France the following year. During the 1920s Pétain served in French Morocco. In 1934 he was minister of war, and from 1939 to 1940 he was ambassador to Spain.
Following the German invasion of France in 1940, Pétain - then 84 years old - was recalled to active military service as adviser to the minister of war. On June 16, 1940, he succeeded Paul Reynaud as premier of France and soon afterward he asked the Germans for an armistice, which was concluded on June 22. On July 2, with the consent of the Germans, he established his government in Vichy in central France, and on July 10 he assumed the title of chief of state, ruling thereafter with dictatorial powers over that portion of France not directly under German control. Pétain and his prime minister, Pierre Laval, established a Fascist-oriented government that became notorious for its collaboration with German dictator Adolf Hitler. The Vichy government ruled with Germany's approval, appointing all government officials, controlling the press, and practicing arbitrary arrests. The government also passed anti-Semitic laws and rounded up French, Spanish, and Eastern European Jews who were deported to German concentration camps.
After the Allies landed in France in 1944, Pétain went to Germany and then to Switzerland. He returned to France after the war to stand trial for treason. In August 1945 he was found guilty of ãintelligence with the enemyä and sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and he was moved to Ile d'Yeu, an island off the coast of Brittany, where he died.

Yeah...?

France's death: around 535,000
UK's death: 390,000

Sounds a bit alike.

Oh yeah, France was occupied. So was Pologne, so almost all Grece, so almost all Neither-Land (or whatever you call it), so was Hongrie, so was the Republic Tcheck, so .. et cetera.

Your point, my pictureless friend?

[Skirmisher]

You really don't understand my could be schnitzle eating friend?:rolleyes:

Ah well if not, that will have to be for another thread.

[Xcalibur]

Ah, no, playing with you. I thought you'd understand by reading between the lines and using that part of the brain that is called memory.

Let me tell you this, again.

I have ZERO latine blood in me. ZERO. Latine, for me includes this: South america, France, Spanish, Portugal, Italie (you get the picture)

THANKS for caring, though.:)