Topic: What grinds my gears: Americans not showing enough appreciation to England for using its language

+Anonymous A — 2.3 years ago #64,004

Americans owe Britain for this and should still be paying taxes to Britain for using its language.

+Anonymous B — 2.3 years ago, 11 minutes later[T] [B] #643,157

Does Canada owe taxes to France? Does Mexico owe taxes to Spain? Does Brazil owe taxes to Portugal? A large portion of the world speaks some English, and you can thank the Americans inventing the internet for that.

+Anonymous C — 2.3 years ago, 41 minutes later, 53 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #643,158

Americans butcher the English language so bad that we pretty much have turned into our own separate language.

+Anonymous D — 2.3 years ago, 5 hours later, 6 hours after the original post[T] [B] #643,159

... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.
Mark Twain
Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.
Mark Twain

... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.
Mark Twain

I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor and mean distinction and I early learned to disenjoy it. I suppose that this is because the ability to spell correctly is a talent, not an acquirement. There is some dignity about an acquirement, because it is a product of your own labor. It is wages earned, whereas to be able to do a thing merely by the grace of God and not by your own effort transfers the distinction to our heavenly home--where possibly it is a matter of pride and satisfaction but it leaves you naked and bankrupt.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography

I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography

...ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smouched from every unwatched language under the sun, the spelling of each individual word of the lot locating the source of the theft and preserving the memory of the revered crime.
- Mark Twain

“Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.”

― Mark Twain

SPELLING
I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing. I have a correspondent whose letters are always a refreshment to me, there is such a breezy unfettered originality about his orthography. He always spells Kow with a large K. Now that is just as good as to spell it with a small one. It is better. It gives the imagination a broader field, a wider scope. It suggests to the mind a grand, vague, impressive new kind of a cow.

― Mark Twain

+Anonymous Z-91 — 2.3 years ago, 3 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[T] [B] #643,160

@OP
> Americans owe Britain for this and should still be paying taxes to Britain for using its language.

We should sue England for providing such a crappy language
This is an Example of English as a language from the past not that long ago.

·Anonymous Z-91 — 2.3 years ago, 2 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[T] [B] #643,161

English our Language forced upon us by England and an older example

+Anonymous F — 2.3 years ago, 5 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[T] [B] #643,162

·Anonymous F — 2.3 years ago, 2 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[T] [B] #643,163

·Exists Right Exists Left - G'd Knite — 2.3 years ago, 3 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[T] [B] #643,164

·Anonymous B — 2.3 years ago, 5 hours later, 12 hours after the original post[T] [B] #643,170

@643,162 (F)
don't forget this

·Anonymous B — 2.3 years ago, 1 minute later, 12 hours after the original post[T] [B] #643,171

not really relevant, but funny so fuck you I'm gonna post it anyway

+Anonymous G — 2.3 years ago, 2 hours later, 14 hours after the original post[T] [B] #643,180

@643,170 (B)

+Anonymous H — 2.3 years ago, 6 hours later, 21 hours after the original post[T] [B] #643,199

English is OK?

THEY ARE NASTY Sick weirdoes

·Anonymous B — 2.3 years ago, 1 hour later, 23 hours after the original post[T] [B] #643,211

@643,180 (G)
nice

·Anonymous A (OP) — 2.3 years ago, 7 minutes later, 23 hours after the original post[T] [B] #643,214

@643,199 (H)

Why are you using their language then? Dumb fuck

·Anonymous Z-91 — 2.3 years ago, 10 minutes later, 23 hours after the original post[T] [B] #643,217

@previous (A)
> Why are you using their language then? Dumb fuck

OP Said What grinds my gears: Americans not showing enough appreciation to England for using its language

I will for now assume OP does well with that language. It's the only one I know except I do know how to say I love you in multiple languages.
As someone who will never do well with English or any language re Dyslexia. Best of all is that I have traveled the world re Work and it's a great thing I never knew enough of another countries language to order a beer other than with hand signs. Met many who helped me who have remained friends over the many years.

Plus needing help with a simple beer got me in bed with a very lovely Russian Blonde girl. Would still be with her except she wanted many children from the GetGo.

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