+630 The trouble with the English language is that they're our sew many weighs four yew two mix up yore dam homophones, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

There, their, they're

by Anonymous 12 years ago

(Love, Anonymous): That was on purpose.. and that wasnt the ONLY mistake in the post...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

They might have just been giving examples . . . they didn't put a *

by Anonymous 12 years ago

English is such a dumb language. House ----> Houses Mouse -----> Mice Goose----> Geese Moose----> Moose Who invented this?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Not to mention "oxen" and "radii"... English is really messed up.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

yeah, those too, and a whole mess of other ones

by Anonymous 12 years ago

radii would be Latin, not English.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Radii is the plural form of radius, and are both English words. How else would you word it, radiuses?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I didn't say anything about radiuses, but I mean the ending is Latin In Latin Singular: us, i, o, um, o Plural: i, orum, is, os, is If you use your brain you'll see that the plural form of "us" is "i", therefore the word radius becomes radii when it's pluralized, and that would be Latin.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

it is ALSO English another example would be fungus fungi which is both languages

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Ok but my point is that it originates from Latin so when people get confused about the whole "us/i" thing it's not just for no reason and also if you want to blame a language for that being confusing blame Latin because the ending is not English.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

yes I know many words come from Latin and Greek too, also some Latin words even derive from Greek words.. you specifically said its "latin not English" I was saying it definitely was English and it was the fault of the creator of English to derive radius from Latin, or fungus, or matrix matrices (3rd decl), btw I am well aware of the Latin language I've studied it for more than 4 years just letting you know I'm not looking this bullshit up or something

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Ok all I'm saying is that when English became a language the people didn't say "hmm instead of going with 'es' like we have been let's make this plural end in 'i' just to confuse them!" Since it came from Latin I just don't think it should be used as an example of the "dumb english language"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

http://bertc.com/subfour/truth/learnenglish.htm pure genius

by Anonymous 12 years ago

precisely

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I wanted to strangle you for posting this, you sound like the 11 year olds on facebook. But then I realized the message.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That, along with their behavior and attitude, is why I deleted them from my friend's list.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

that's not cool man. edit:I though you were talking about the user who posted this.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Based off your two posts above, you should really read an entire comment/post before jumping to conclusions...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

calm it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm pretty sure she read her own comment all the way through.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

our =/= are I wanted to murder every kid in my first grade class who mixed those up.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It depends a little on your accent for our/are. I've kinda trained my our to sound like owr, but most people in my area say it as are...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah, I say it owr, but most people in Boston say both of them like ahr

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah, and in Philly it's are. And then I say 'hour' like ow-er. Oh accents... XD

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I try to make it rhyme with hour but a lot of people here pronounce "our" exactly like "are"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah same. Mine ends up somewhere between the two, like I have a really odd Cockney xD

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah, where I come from, they're both pronounced "ah"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This reminds me of yesterday's POTD we create the macne tat led to thee futur

by Anonymous 12 years ago

For some reason I read this is Dexter from Dexter's laboratory's voice.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

oh my goodness, so did I. Inexplicably, but I did.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I did too, except I forgot whom the voice belonged to, but this made me remember :P

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's kinda funny reading about how the language makes people mad when your first language is english.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's my parents fault, not mine

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I didn't say it was your fault, just that itt is funny :)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I get it now

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah my first language is English and I think it's stupid. Especially with verbs :P

by Anonymous 12 years ago