The Back Room

[Jehosaphat]

Good ol' English. The language that found all the other languages drunk in an alley, beat them silly, and stole spare grammar from their pockets.

[Alg]

Good ol' English. The language that found all the other languages drunk in an alley, beat them silly, and stole spare grammar from their pockets.

The system works. :thumbup:

[The_Mather1]

Like gruesome, that comes from the Norwegian grusom.

[Grim_]

Danish far more likely, seeing as the Danes kicked the [cabbage] out of the English in the middle ages and set up a kingdom/colony in Caledonia.

[The_Mather1]

But Norwegian's practically Danish, just with more distinct sounds and a normal counting system. You wouldn't be able to make out the difference between a Dane and a Norwegian with a potato down his throat.

[Earth]

Oh joy, english language lessons from a norweigan. Does anyone else find this absurd? (Despite the fact that I know Mather has a good grasp of the english language most of the time..)

[The_Mather1]

Actually, that would be Latin lessons.

[Earth]

... Let me correct that then. Joy, Latin lessons from a norweigan who thinks he can kill someone with a wallet. Now it's even more absurd.

[Resistance]

You probably could kill somebody with a wallet provided that you hit them with enough force.

[The Dark Lord]

lol @ you guys trying to make sense of the English language.

[Jehosaphat]

You probably could kill somebody with a wallet provided that you hit them with enough force.

And we come back to the marshmallow argument again. *sigh*

[Earth]

Resistence, we already did (Well, Archi and maybe Retech did) the math, and despite what Mather claims, there's no way in hell or high water that he'dbe able to do it. And yes, thats part of the absurdity... English makes no sense, no more than French, German, Latin, Spanish, or any other language.

[Nero]

Danish far more likely, seeing as the Danes kicked the [cabbage] out of the English in the middle ages and set up a kingdom/colony in Caledonia.

Danes took over Mercia, East Anglia, and parts of Wessex.

Norway took over Northumbria, parts of the Pictish lands, and I believe parts of Ireland.

[Jehosaphat]

Danish far more likely, seeing as the Danes kicked the [cabbage] out of the English in the middle ages and set up a kingdom/colony in Caledonia.

Danes took over Mercia, East Anglia, and parts of Wessex.

Norway took over Northumbria, parts of the Pictish lands, and I believe parts of Ireland.

And Dusty took over everything. :P

[Nexaduro]

First lesson of life, Earth. Anything can kill you.

 

You haven't known fear until Emily explains how she would kill you with a marker in a childlike HAL voice.

[Alg]

lol @ you guys trying to make sense of the English language.

To be fair, you can get a good grasp of it easily enough, and if you can understand it, it doesn't really matter how absurd and contradictory the rules are.

[The_Mather1]

Resistence, we already did (Well, Archi and maybe Retech did) the math, and despite what Mather claims, there's no way in hell or high water that he'dbe able to do it. And yes, thats part of the absurdity... English makes no sense, no more than French, German, Latin, Spanish, or any other language.

Latin makes sense, but it's just about the only language to do so.

[archimage_a]

 

'English doesn't make sense because you use a different word for photo and photograph, when clearly photograph should be a camera, rofl.'

'Science doesn't make sense because I looked in a jar of peanut better and didn't find a new human, rofl.'

 

If you take any single part of science, or linguistics, or anything sufficiently large for that matter, hold it up against another single part of science or whatever, you can say 'THIS PROVES THAT IT IS ALL WRONG!'

Why? Well that's a good question, and I think it can be best explained through the medium of sound propagation and range finding :rolleyes: :

You are standing in a field:

And you hear a noise. You have super amazing hearing, so you know that the sound was 40-60 meters away:

This is holding up one piece of evidence, and there are limitless locations it could have been.

Now, say you have a friend, also standing in the field:

And they hear the sound at 20-40 meters:

We can therefore narrow it down to a smaller area.

However, now there are two people, and person A says that it is on the right, and person B says it is on the left, and they both write books about how it is on the left or right, and they disagree about it for hundreds of years, passing it on through their children.

And eventually, many hundreds of years later, someone hears the noise with two other people present:

And we discover that person A was right.(or in this case left)

However, during those hundred years or so it has been discovered, amazingly, that sometimes sound also comes from the right, but those are different sounds.

Thusly, even though person B was wrong about this, they were right about other stuff.

But if someone from Person C's generation picked up a book from person B's time, they would know it was wrong.

However, Person C, being fairly active, doesn't want to spend their whole life rewriting all of person B's books because it would mostly be pointless.

So, there is a mistake, which everyone knows is a mistake, but aren't that concerned by because its not that major.

Then, a few more hundred years later, someone, person D, comes across person B's book and goes 'They were wrong', and they tell everyone that person B was wrong, and everyone is totally amazed because everyone had forgotten that person B was wrong, and so they go off on a little quest to make sure Person B wasn't wrong about anything else, and lo and behold something else person B said once happened to be wrong, and because person D's Generation are no more sad and pointless than Person C's, they don't bother to rewrite the books.

And so on and so on, with all the tiny mistakes being left in the language because, in actuality, it doesn't matter, because the things are rarely, if ever, looked into and brought up.

Except when it is, because people get their knickers in a twist and go 'OH OH OH, ITS WRONG!!!!!' and they run around looking for other things that are wrong, and sure enough, because these things have been around for hundreds and hundreds of years, there are mistakes...There is a big song and dance and, either, people accept the fact it is wrong, and ignore it, or they ignore the fact it is wrong and accept it.

 

 

Long, and tangential way of saying 'Yes, there are mistakes, we accept there are mistakes, because trying to correct the mistakes would be a majorly pointless waste of time.' ie, teaching everyone Latin, just so in 50 years we can go:

 

OH MEUS DEUS! ERRATUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jasignhagj]

I put a hamster in a fishbowl and it didn't grow gills so evolution is totes fake.

 

Saving that video for later u rage u loose purposes.

[Earth]

Nex, I already know everything can kill you, i've had several experiences of the sort myself. (Not dying, obviously. Near death.) Such as nearly falling off a cliff from my bike.. Twice. And no language makes sense unless you're born to it, and even then it's iffy.

[The_Mather1]

Most languages have their good and bad sides... but Latin was a work of art.

[archimage_a]

Its grossly inefficient, highly subjective and ultimately useless?

[Earth]

Most languages are. Depending on your point of view, a single world language would solve several problems, though a lack of individuality might come about.. And it's rather hard to make battle plans when your enemies spies know exactly what to listen for.

[Nero]

Danish far more likely, seeing as the Danes kicked the [cabbage] out of the English in the middle ages and set up a kingdom/colony in Caledonia.

Danes took over Mercia, East Anglia, and parts of Wessex.

Norway took over Northumbria, parts of the Pictish lands, and I believe parts of Ireland.

And Dusty took over everything. :P

I do try.

[Alg]

Most languages are. Depending on your point of view, a single world language would solve several problems, though a lack of individuality might come about.. And it's rather hard to make battle plans when your enemies spies know exactly what to listen for.

That, and how will you stop the language from developing on its own after it's created?