right on you silly american trucker! english is a pile of shit deteriorating schnitt; being eaten by the flies that are retards and mobile phone messages. i lik ltn alt cz itz kl cmn 2 da clb 2nite slee trka
[quote author=Episcopus link=board=3;threadid=267;start=60#1915 date=1059064002]i lik ltn alt cz itz kl cmn 2 da clb 2nite slee trka
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The frightening thing is that I think I understood that…
Kilmeny
however I have come to accept it…and although I abstain from writing text messages - I detest them - I like to “mock”, or rather have my own fun with weaknesses of english.
The best ‘dialect’ has to be that of rappers - and snoop d-o-double-gizzle has even made his own noun and adj endings 
‘izzle’ when it feels o-kizzle…
i’m sure you to have heard of ‘for shizzle my nizzle…’ :-<br />
O Episcope, you are bizarre 
[quote author=Milito link=board=3;threadid=267;start=45#1910 date=1059059191]
On the lack of noun for “Latin”… If you think about it, we (in English) are very sloppy with our use of the linguistic names.[/quote]
I never thought of it that way. So we really should be saying “I speak the English language” but we’re just too lazy to do that.
I can’t imagine saying “I’m English” to mean I’m someone who speaks English. I would say “I’m American”, and I would think you would be able to say “I’m Canadian” and people should be able to figure out that you speak English or French. 
[quote author=Milito link=board=3;threadid=267;start=60#1922 date=1059079464]
[quote author=Episcopus link=board=3;threadid=267;start=60#1915 date=1059064002]i lik ltn alt cz itz kl cmn 2 da clb 2nite slee trka
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The frightening thing is that I think I understood that…
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Me too! Now what does that say about us? Hmmm… !!!
Epis: You should send such mesgs to your buddies over the phone/pager in Latin. ;D
Hehe, Latin would make messages shorter without making you look like an illiterate 
[quote author=benissimus link=board=3;threadid=267;start=60#1941 date=1059098158]
Hehe, Latin would make messages shorter without making you look like an illiterate
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I agrizzle!! so much shorter…eg copiis rõmãnis nocebantur
=the roman abundances were being harmed ;D
some one make a latin sentence out of an english one, try to quarter it :
anyhizzle, multi equizzles ad magna opidizzle copiizzle frumentizzle portant.
multãs feminizzles mulcebizzle quia pulchrizzle erizzle.
=neo latin
[quote author=bingley link=board=3;threadid=267;start=60#1949 date=1059106232]
We’re not sloppy at all (well all right some people are, but no doubt the average Tomus, Ricardus, et Haroldus used language that made Cicero cringe). Just because Latin needs to say lingua latina loquor, doesn’t mean English has to say I speak the English language. Unfortunately, the grammar we use to talk about English was originally used for Latin – a completely different language. Just as our spelling is a terrible mess partly because we use an alphabet designed for Latin rather than one designed for English, which has a lot more sounds (about 40 I think), so grammar lessons are difficult because we’re using a tool designed to do something else. [/rant]
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You’re correct - we don’t have to say “I speak the English language” to be correct these days. But nevertheless, it’s what we mean when we say “I speak English”!
A large part of the difficulty with the Spelling of English also stems from the Invention of the Dictionary, which standardized spelling, at a time when a lot of those extraneous sounds in so many words were still being pronounced - eg: “Daughter” didn’t then sound like “dotter”, but more like the result of a collision between “docter” and “dogger”…
I suppose I should de-generalize the comment on “sloppy” - though I did get a kick out of “Tomus, Richardus et Haroldus”, and you’re probably right about Cicero cringing - by saying that what we’re speaking now would have been considered incredibly sloppy, so far as grammar goes, 200 years ago, and our pronounciation completely alien. That’s what makes English a living language - not only does it keep swallowing up other languages’ words whole, like some linguistic black whole, but it keeps changing its own grammar and accepted rules of word usage and pronounciation even over ten-year spans. It also has developed its own little occupational sub-dialogs… (which I would have had to spell “dialogues” not long ago…) It’s truly amazing to watch it (so to speak…) morph before your eyes (ears?) even while you watch it change in ways you may wish it had avoided. Or, anyway, I find it so… But as observed before, I’m a little weird myself…
Kilmeny
Well I said truck english after having heard that the conditional perfect could be used in the first part of ‘if’ clauses and stuff…and it’s now standard…some authors use it…
id est ‘if i would have left my mother alone, i would have stayed home’
Episcopus:
Well I said truck english after having heard that the conditional perfect could be used in the first part of ‘if’ clauses and stuff…and it’s now standard…some authors use it…
id est ‘if i would have left my mother alone, i would have stayed home’
Hmmm… And I thought I came up with some strange examples.
“Interesting” comment with your picture. Maybe the Greek is a disclaimer? I haven’t studied Greek – ancient or modern.
Cool sequencing of pictures with text! I’d like to learn how to do that.
Magistra
In paint shop pro make 10 images of the same size, then mess about in animation shop…I had no idea but I finally did it - glad you appreciate it ;D
Is the grammar in the comment alright?
I know no greek but the alphabet basically so I just wrote Episkopos est malus
Oh well… I don’t have paint shop pro (or anything close). Thanks anyway.
“Is the grammar content all right?”
I believe so. The content, well …? What is it you’re really trying to say?
Magistra
[quote author=Episcopus link=board=3;threadid=267;start=60#2164 date=1059479779]
In paint shop pro make 10 images of the same size, then mess about in animation shop… [/quote]
That’s really neat. I don’t have Paint Shop Pro but I do have Photoshop 7 I think, I should go look, I haven’t actually installed it yet. I wonder if I can do something similar with Photoshop. Would you happen to know?
Well, just … acquire Paintshop Pro 7 and Animation Shop from the … Computer Store…
Ah…in house on own…Episcopus malus praedam vocat