Ah, the English language.
An often melodious, more often odious language.
A constant source of debate at work, how words are pronounced, inflection, masters of lingustics we are not.
IMPORTANT NOTE:I love Utah. I love America. Make love to an American ;) LOVE LOVEITY LOVELY.
Some random things I don't understand.
Samoan is one language. Hawaiian is another language. Though similar, if you combined them and spoke Samoan-Hawaiian, it would be a made up language that made no sense.
That's how I feel about American English. I'm kidding, don't be sensitive.
But, for serious, there are so many words in the English language that are used in a different context in the American-English language, when used incorrectly, can lead to an awkward situation.
ENGLISH > AMERICAN
RUBBER > ERASER
SERVIETTE>NAPKIN
TOMATO SAUCE>KETCHUP
RUBBISH>TRASH
Granted, they are both "words" used in the ENGLISH/AMERICAN ENGLISH language, they are not used in the same context.
In UTAH (I FB'd this) there is an interesting dialect. A T or D sound is added to the end of words.
ACROSS = ACROSST, DROWN = DROWND.
Often times, the T is not enunciated.
MOUNTAIN = MOUN'AIN, CAPTAIN = CAP'N
And alternately, I am COMPLETELY misunderstood, no less than twice a day.
We (the hori's with the New Zealand accents) don't pronounce our R's like pirates R=AAARRRGGGHHH, but like we just drank something satisfying AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!
I said the word "POORLY" in a meeting, and got the blankest stares I've ever gotten.
My boss’s boss, can't understand me at all, and nods his head and smiles when I ask him a question hmm, time to ask for a raise? Beside the point (or pointless as you know this post is ridiculous).
MAYBE in the future, there will be words that show up right underneath people’s faces, like subtitles for movies. If you are unsure of the meaning of a word, you can tap the word, and a dictionary meaning will show up. GENIUS (don’t steal my idea).
Should I get into spelling?
Even as I write this ridiculousness, the spell check is putting angry red lines of frustration under the words I spell the non-AMERICAN-ENGLISH way.
How would the correct spelling truly be determined?
Whoever SPELLED=SPELT it first is correct?
This may be the greatest agree to disagree solution ever.
Think about it.
2 comments:
brilliant Dayne!
The winner? Is someone who tells me they graduated early from high school and can't spell ! Um maybe you should have stayed and did another year of spelling? LOL!! Keep em coming girl!
You make me happy :)
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