Thread: And these people say we have too many words

Originally Posted by TheAmerican

English is just nasty isint it.

No, it's a rather wonderful language, in my opinion. Seriously, what's with all the native English speakers bashing their own language? My point was that if English really does have more homophones than other European languages, it could be one reason for keeping spelling the way it is.

BTW, TheAmerican, are you interested in learning Russian?

Just say it fast!

That always works(not really but ill say it dose)

Originally Posted by Pravit

Originally Posted by TheAmerican

English is just nasty isint it.

No, it's a rather wonderful language, in my opinion. Seriously, what's with all the native English speakers bashing their own language? My point was that if English really does have more homophones than other European languages, it could be one reason for keeping spelling the way it is.

BTW, TheAmerican, are you interested in learning Russian?

Yes im very intrested in learning russian.

I do think english is very nice, but I understand how the non-native english speakers feel. To me its normal and nice. But it has some problems.

btw sorry for the double post

Every language has some problems. English's most obvious ones are its spelling and articles, but they aren't that bad. I do think you'd agree that once you've become accustomed to English spelling, it's not so hard. I don't think foreign learners of English have to learn the pronunciation of each new English word they encounter. Russian seems to have 3,000,000 different style rules that you must learn one by one in order to not sound like an idiot when you write things.

I still have along way to go in my russian. Im very new, It also sucks for me because I live in an area where nobody speaks russian. I cant even take a course at our local collage Hopefully I can learn alot of my wrongs here

2TheAmerican,

What's with? I see from your posts that you have problems spelling even English. I am a pretty hard-nosed individual who swears by the gawdawful rules of English spelling. I know that a spell checker would never pick up "I still have along way" but still, I hope this is just a high-school error, or a typo with the spacebar. Also-- there is a problem in your sig, please check it.

signed,

Teacher from Hell. I have had a bad day. No smiley.
атлишна говору па-руски.

collage, alot, tsk tsk tsk!

I know theres supposed to be a space. It was just a careless error. I dont know if your like me, but when I have only had 2 hours of sleep it the last 2 days, I dont worry about spelling too much. If you want to fix this sentence for me feel free. If you wish you may keep telling me how bad my grammer is, but for now im going to bed.

Just one more. Your - possessive determiner. You're - contraction of "you are."

Originally Posted by TheAmerican

I know theres supposed to be a space. It was just a careless error. I dont know if your like me, but when I have only had 2 hours of sleep it the last 2 days, I dont worry about spelling too much. If you want to fix this sentence for me feel free. If you wish you may keep telling me how bad my grammer is, but for now im going to bed.

I know there's supposed to be a space. It was just a careless error. I don't know if you're like me, but when I have only had two hours of sleep in the last two days, I don't worry too much about spelling. If you want to fix this sentence for me, feel free. If you wish, you may keep telling me how bad my grammar is, but for now, I'm going to bed.

Phew. I feel better.

http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html

stupid english so confusing, im glad my natie tounge is spanish... lo but its rpetty cool, jsut too confusing, are there any like that in russian?

Its spelled native, and any what in russian?