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J'au-æmne Started conversation Apr 1, 2000
I'm glad I'm a native English speaker to
As well as those things that you pointed out, people also have to deal with our counterintuitive spelling!
Would it be dull, though, if we didn't do this?
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Demon Drawer Posted Apr 1, 2000
They're complaining that there is nothing that can be done about it its their problem. But here hear the one about the hare whose hair was all covered in soot from the great grate, or the heir who breathed air ere the cows came home. 
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Ming Mang Posted May 7, 2000
LOL too.
Apparently, somebody once constructed the perfect language (ie, one that spelt things how they sounded, didn't use genders, had each word with it's own meaning etc.), but nobody used it. It seems that we prefer being confused to learning another language...
The strangeness is unbelievable.
ill-prepared - prepared
untrue - true
invisible - visible
flammable - not flammable
inflammable - not flammable
stupid - not stupid...
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