English Language

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Originally Posted by donKey jote

One of my favourite Spanishwords is "Güisqui" :p

b and v sound exactly the same so are prone to spelling mistakes...

y and ll sound almost the same so ditto...

c is pronounced as a k if it's before an a, o or u... or as a z or an s depending on where you`re from otherwise...

you have accents...

otherwise Spanish spelling is simple :)

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forgot the g: like a g before a, o or u but like a j before e or i...

jeje (hehe)

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Originally Posted by Mark

Smtmes if u lve ltrs ot it cn b uderstd. But otherwise spelling is important otherwise how will people know what you're saying?!

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its the same if you swap the order of the letters in a word;

http://www.languagehat.com/archives/000840.php

Who remembers the Babelghoti?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

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Originally Posted by donKey jote

y and ll sound almost the same so ditto...

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How should I say:

For Sevilla: Sevilia or Seviia?
For Pancho Villa: Vilia or Viia?

I tend to use the " li" form.....

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Originally Posted by Cooper_S

Is it not pronounced Ho-say,

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José ;)


French can be frustrating. The same word spelled and pronounced identically can have two completely different meanings, e.g.:

La tour : The tower
Le tour : The turn

"C'est notre tour de prendre la tournée de la tour." :s

I vaguely remeber hearing that the english languege has some 2000 special cases where words don't follow normal rules, where as in the finnish language there are about 20.
I would think it makes computer voice control rather more difficult in the english speaking techology world.

English is pretty straight forward to those that grew up learning it as their first language. I have a number of friends and business connections that find the English language rather difficult to learn/pronounce/spell/get used to.

wee shood rait as it saunds.


:s mokin:

I have been told over and over again that English is the most difficult language to learn if you didn't grow up with it. Since I grew up with it, I have no idea. I do know that there is many spellings that don't follow laws. When Spoken, idioms and local terms and accents can make people from Scotland unable to be understood by people in say, Louisana and then it is different again from the people in Newfoundland or Melbourne in Australia. The thing is, English is a language in a supercharged evolution all the time.....

For those of you like Eki, Ghostwalker, Gadjo, Rudy and many others, I salute your ability to converse online in English, it is something I envy in that I can ONLY speak English, and to me, the other languages are just too hard to grasp.

I speak minimal French, can read and understand a little more of THAT, but that is about it for me and language. Spanish when I went to Mexico made me feel like I was an idiot.....and Chinese? Oh lord.....I cant even hear words....just syllables all tied together.

No...I have no grasp for any language but my own..and it frustrates me but I just was never able to grasp anything else....

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Originally Posted by gadjo_dilo

How should I say:

For Sevilla: Sevilia or Seviia?
For Pancho Villa: Vilia or Viia?

I tend to use the " li" form.....

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"li" form is not quite correct, more like "lyi" I think, but to be honest, I use the "yy" form for both: Sebiya and Biya :p

And it's not Pancho Villa: it's http://www.glittergirl.co.uk/banana/51.gif DAVID VILLA VILLA VILLA, UNA MARAVILLA http://www.glittergirl.co.uk/banana/51.gif

oops sorry I still haven't got over the 5-0 Barcelona gave Real Moudrid :D