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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Nov 13, 2024
And this is from Scandinavia.
http://www.youtube.com/shorts/I10YSu_C7lc
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Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U. Posted Nov 13, 2024
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Nov 13, 2024
Okay, then! We don't call them that. They are sometimes called 'goobers', though. (Have been since the 1850s or so.)
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Nov 13, 2024
Oh! I just looked it up and 'goober' is from a word in the Kikongo language. (We sometimes get our Southern food words from African languages.)
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Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U. Posted Nov 13, 2024
"english language! to American version
= Boy! There are many differences
BUT! I truly love how you spell some words as they sound
IE: ours "colour" to yours' "color" etc
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Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U. Posted Nov 13, 2024
PS! I got a rap (ruler) across my knuckles by "my" english teacher at school years ago I got a "bad mark" on a spelling BUT! Because I said THAT'S how American#s spell it! -
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Nov 13, 2024
That was Noah Webster. Dictionaries were a new idea then - he made the first American one.
And he didn't like silent letters.
Of course, what with the Civil War coming after that, when I was a kid, the teacher said we could spell any way we liked, so I mostly used English spelling...UNTIL we moved to Pittsburgh - and I had to use American spelling.
At least I know both - which is good for the .
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Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U. Posted Nov 13, 2024
"silent letters" That's the one
It was once said ? That Chinese was the hardest language to learn ?
Wrong! English is the hardest! Because "we" many meanings etc for words
"we're/were/where" etc etc - I'm glad that I mainly write/speak.
Yorkshire!Sod any other language in the world!!
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Caiman raptor elk - Inside big box, thinking. Posted Nov 14, 2024
Teachers claiming: 'Spell any way you like.' can expect to be challenged. My brother had one like that for Religion. His class really tried to write any word other than normal.
My Religion teacher on the other hand, was really picky. She got pretty angry at me when I came to ask her what she wrote in my notebook. Apparently she tried to convey that she couldn't read my handwriting. The feeling was mutual.
My Dad had to write her a letter to defuse the situation and argue that I should be graded on what I wrote, not how.
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Nov 14, 2024
People have complained about my handwriting in a number of languages. My Yiddish teacher told me I really needed to work on it. Yiddish uses the Hebrew alphabet.
To my astonishment, there was one language where my handwriting got compliments - GREEK.
I love keyboards.
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Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U. Posted Nov 14, 2024
Sod written language
I was once shown a middle finger, with the rest clenched
I replied! With 2 fingers in a V sign and said! In Yorkshire, we can afford 2 fingers and
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Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U. Posted Nov 14, 2024
Happened twice! Once in england and t'other in Los Angeles
"we" have a saying DON'T try and teach your mother to suck eggs!!!
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