[conspire] English language has ridiculously inconsistent spelling patterns (British/Canadian/American)

[Tony Godshall]

Luxembourgish is an interesting case in point.  French grammar with
germanic words iirc.  Established officially to distance them from the
German state. Swiss German shares similar intentional differentiation.




On Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 10:33 AM paulz at ieee.org <paulz at ieee.org> wrote:

> It's more than just the spelling which was broken from the start.  After
> 1066 French speakers and Germanic Speakers had to deal with each other and
> didn't have the Star Trek translator, much less an Berlitz dictionary.
> Most of those people didn't read or write.  It was enough of a problem to
> figure out words and grammer.  Actually both French and German have well
> defined rules of grammer, but the two sets are not consistent.
>
> The Brits, Aussies, Kiwi's all have different accents as well.  I once
> spent 3 weeks in Scotland where I had a bit of a problem on account of the
> language.
>
> On Wednesday, April 29, 2020, 10:48:52 PM PDT, Deirdre Saoirse Moen <
> deirdre at deirdre.net> wrote:
>
>
> The day I saw this in a tweet, I laughed so hard I had an asthma attack. I
> tried to tell it to Rick in my non-functional state, but it really works
> better in print.
>
>
> > Choice of .signature below is coincidental (albeit a happy accident).
> >
> > --
> > Cheers,
> > Rick Moen                      "I shot a man in German just to watch him
> the."
> > rick at linuxmafia.com                                -- @drankturpentine
> > McQ! (4x80)
>
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