Curse

Amonster666 · Aug 30, 2006, 11:52 AM // 11:52

I was looking on the net, and i found this, at first i didnt even know what they r on about till the end. u see why in a mo :P

English has to be one of the hardest languages to understand. Read the paragraph below and try to understand the meaning.

here u go, read this:

Two individuals proceeded towards the apex of a natural geologic
protuberance, the purpose of their expedition being the procurement of a sample of fluid hydride of oxygen in a large vessel, the exact size of which was unspecified. One member of the team precipitously descended, sustaining severe damage to the upper cranial portion of his anatomical
structure; Subsequently the second member of the team performed a self
rotational translation oriented in the same direction taken by the first team member.

In plain English what does this translate to?

Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after!

Kaguya · Aug 30, 2006, 11:56 AM // 11:56

That's more or less the "politician talk" or way to make your essays longer than they really are.. And it can be done in every other language as well, not just English :b

Anyone can get the dictionary of their language and get the "bookworm" equivalents of the words and use metaphors to make any language extend out to multiple paragraphs to say something you could write in couple of words.

I pwnd U · Aug 30, 2006, 04:23 PM // 16:23

Kaguya is right. The only reason politicians sound so smart is becase their SPEECH WRITERS look up big words and have a bigger vocabulary then the politician. It just makes them sound smarter and confuses the average joe, which is the point. That is also why the President has so many advisors. So they can tell him what the heck the other guys are saying.

Fungus Amongus · Aug 30, 2006, 08:59 PM // 20:59

Wordiness and jargon ftl.

Sesquipedalian:

-noun-
A long word.

-adjective-
Given to the use of long words.

Former Ruling · Aug 30, 2006, 09:06 PM // 21:06

English is a rather hard second or third langauge though (hearing from people that learned it like that)

The tense of the words add weirdly unlike some other langauges, so many words have different meanings and so many meanings to the same word, and Dialect (different ways of saying stuff in different areas) is stronger here than in some other countries.

Fist_of_God · Aug 30, 2006, 09:27 PM // 21:27

If I am not mistaken, english is the easiest of all languages to learn.

Stalker Haras · Aug 30, 2006, 11:28 PM // 23:28

My brain literaly blew a fuse reading that. Ugh........

I pwnd U · Aug 31, 2006, 12:46 AM // 00:46

Stalker thought to hard what a shock?

The Real Roy Keane · Aug 31, 2006, 01:24 AM // 01:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fist_of_God

If I am not mistaken, english is the easiest of all languages to learn.

You're mistaken. Its grammar is much less rigid and structured than many Latin derived languages. I can imagine it's harder to learn from scratch than Irish, anyway.

I pwnd U · Aug 31, 2006, 01:29 AM // 01:29

English actually is the hardest language to write due to all the puncuations and placements.

Addone_Abaddon · Aug 31, 2006, 01:31 AM // 01:31

english is complicated.

I pwnd U · Aug 31, 2006, 01:37 AM // 01:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by Addone_Abaddon

english is complicated.

now that we have established that english is complicated maybe we can get some useful input?

Anyways english may not seem hard to people who have it as their first language, but to many its hard. It is like us trying to learn a foregin language, we have trouble with it. English just has so many words for the same item and with all the puncation it makes it hard to write. Using large words makes people feel superior to the people that dont know what the word is. It is just a selfconfident builder.

Kaguya · Aug 31, 2006, 05:37 AM // 05:37

I would say far-east languages would be the hardest to write due to the few thousand ideogram "alphabet" :b

I wouldn't say English is that hard to learn, the amount of English-spoken TV programs, music and games contribute a lot to the studies given from school. I learned English quite easy in my opinion, I was always ahead of others on the lectures (sometimes ahead of the teachers too, but suppose American-English wasn't their best stuff :b) I'm a native Finnish speaker, that is.

Maybe the reason French and Germans seem to be pretty bad using English most of the time comes from the obsession of dubbing every single program to their own language, and majority of games can be installed in German instead aswell. (I'm not sure how zealous French are with dubbing stuff, but Germans seem to do it all the way, from what I've heard/seen)

Yanman.be · Aug 31, 2006, 05:56 PM // 17:56

Dutch spelling > all.

There is a national spellig contest ( belgium and netherlands ) , and only last year, someone wrote everything without any mistakes. He declared it was pure luck.

Malice Black · Aug 31, 2006, 06:57 PM // 18:57

i have a few polish friends and they have difficulties with words that have the same or similar meaning

foward/ahead ect

also grammar sometimes causes headaches with the use of "to" or "too" etc

they found it was alot easier to speak english then it was to write in english