How did I ever learn this goddam language?!

[Zombie]

Phonemes and the schwa sound

 

 

Edited September 25, 2022 by Zombie

[raven1]

19 minutes ago, Zombie said:

Phonemes and the schwa sound

 

 

I actually watched this.  If you listen there are some good laughs.  

[BigBen]

It's worth mentioning that UNESCO once rated English the second most difficult language to learn as a second tongue.  (The most difficult is, of course, Chinese.)

[Zombie]

In the UK many people live in homes with a ground floor + a first floor

…that’s a two storey building 

Or possibly a three storey home with a ground floor + first & second floor

Or maybe a penthouse flat on the ninth floor

…that’s a ten storey building

Those easily confused live in a bungalow

…that’s just a ground floor

[Bill W]

21 minutes ago, Zombie said:

In the UK many people live in homes with a ground floor + a first floor

…that’s a two storey building 

Or possibly a three storey home with a ground floor + first & second floor

Or maybe a penthouse flat on the ninth floor

…that’s a ten storey building

Those easily confused live in a bungalow

…that’s just a ground floor

 Now this I understand, since I spent a summer semester in London. 

[Bill W]

I'm just glad I didn't decide to be a speech therapist.  

[Valkyrie]

3 minutes ago, Bill W said:

I'm just glad I didn't decide to be a speech therapist.  

I did   Taking phonetics seriously screwed up my spelling.  I was an excellent speller before that class, and afterwards I found myself having to think about how to spell things properly.  I wouldn't trade my job for anything, though.  

[Thirdly]

Yeah I learned American English for survival…to know exactly when we escaped our prison cells (classrooms).

[TalonRider]

14 hours ago, Zombie said:

In the UK many people live in homes with a ground floor + a first floor

…that’s a two storey building 

Or possibly a three storey home with a ground floor + first & second floor

Or maybe a penthouse flat on the ninth floor

…that’s a ten storey building

Those easily confused live in a bungalow

…that’s just a ground floor

The guys had this discussion in an episode of The Big Bang Theory.

[Hero]

On 5/2/2023 at 9:11 PM, Zombie said:

In the UK many people live in homes with a ground floor + a first floor

…that’s a two storey building 

Or possibly a three storey home with a ground floor + first & second floor

Or maybe a penthouse flat on the ninth floor

…that’s a ten storey building

Those easily confused live in a bungalow

…that’s just a ground floor

In the UK they like to keep their feet on the ground, whereas Americans seem to the British to have their feet in the air, up on the first floor, because the first floor is not the ground floor like in Britain where they all used to only have earth beneath their feet and no floor at all, unless the earth is the floor, like the floor of a cave, which is the earth and not the first floor, unless it's the first floor in the sense it was the floor before anyone even thought about building anything. Anyway, I blame Henry Ford for putting the steering wheel on the left and driving on the right when the British are all right handed and drive on the left, but that's another story, as in tale, not storey as in those buildings whose first floor is the second....

[Zombie]

Hey, it’s not all bad news! 🎉 🎊 
 

at least English ditched gendered language (well, mostly… )

 

 

 

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[PrivateTim]

On 5/2/2023 at 12:11 PM, Zombie said:

Those easily confused live in a bungalow …that’s just a ground floor

Bungalow isn't even an English word. Certainly the Angles, Brits, Picts, Celts, etc had a word for a one story dwelling long before the British East India Company 😲

[Zombie]

no comment…  

 

 

[W_L]

On 6/2/2023 at 12:12 PM, PrivateTim said:

Bungalow isn't even an English word. Certainly the Angles, Brits, Picts, Celts, etc had a word for a one story dwelling long before the British East India Company 😲

Well not everyone can be a Weekender  

Personally, I wouldn't mind some buttered scones and figs jam with a spot of tea