BlameThePixel!

"I'm" can't be "i'm"? hmm how odd.

PS: I know about the puntuation outside the quote, but ask any computer programmer about string literals and syntax and they'll tell you punctuaation belongs outside . On a related topic, I belive they are making it "ok" for punctuation to be outside due to this.

I know most of the stuff mentioned here, I'm concious of grammar, yet, I can't be arsed using it most of the time.

on exit frame
play.member("intro");
end

hey how about that.... it does go out site qoutes

Computer syntax is just like it says on the tin. It's a totally different set of semantics. Something like"
\"
\n
or
number[50]
Aren't that strange to see in a program. Neither is seeing a colon in strange places. So combining the two I mentioned...
case "inglesh" : cout << "\"You dumbass, you suck at spelling! \"\n";

Which ends up printing (for those that have no idea what that is):
"You dumbass, you suck at spelling! " {hard return}
Which has no relation to the english language whatsoever.

I tend to obey Hixie English. It's common sense really.

What the?? The plural of "us" is "i" and nothing else. Thus circi, but radii. Or preferably just an -es.

knifa edit: use html you penix

don't know what you're talking about dingbats... You mean the plural of a word ending in us? But the plural of cactus is cactii, hence 'us' becomes two 'i's, radius is probably different because without the 'us' it already ends on 'i'. It would just look stupid with three 'i's.

It's not a serious proposal for a language (afaik), I mean nobody would pluralise bus to bii, I doubt that would even be correct if it were a latin word.

Note: For my first paragraph, it's obvious you know more about latin than I do, that's just how I believe things are...

In-fact: disregard my top paragraph cause I'm completely wrong. If we were speaking seriously about latin plurals (which we're not, then it is only meant to be one i). I remembered there being an article about it on the straight dope, so I looked it up (spaz and knifa, you'll like this one)

What is the plural of "penis"?

Wow, that's a long answer to a short question!
Well, I actually don't see why to use the Latin plurals in English. When the words are borrowed into English, they become English, and should be treated as such. If we want to use Latin plurals, we could just as well use their case system of five (six) different cases and pronounce them as in Latin.

it wouldn't

That is the exact reason that english is one of the hardest languages to fully learn. Because iwords are "borroweed" into it. If English was latin based it wooule then resemble spanish, itian, and french, Hence being a romance languge.

but... English is based on latin... It does resemble other european languages (etc.) to an extent, and other languages also borrow words from english (there's even a term for it - Denglish - in German) and others.

^^Forgive me if I've said something stupid. Been drinking tonight.

english is not based on latin, at least not american english. English is based on everything else. Romance languages are based on Latin, english is based on other languages, but that does not mean that english is based on latin. This is a bad time to use deductive logic.

Latin == Canus Latras
English = Wolf.

This is a prime example of what I mean. Though a poor example at the same time... heh,....

Anyway, English is a fucked up language, I much prefer Spanish as its hard to make gramatical errors and spelling errors. Romance languages rule in comparison to english. Though im sure some words in the english language are derived from latin, most are not.



and I think im going to get a beer now too

I guess you're right, actually, there isn't much of a latin base in English, the latin words are probably just from all, those cultures that had an effect on us...

more then likely..

The only latin really used now is in church (not that I ever go there) and in science labs. Though Romance languages are easy, Latin its self is quite hard.. I wonder why that is.. lol

The romance languages are mostly simplifications of Latin, at least Italian and Spanish, French is quite different. English is a Germanic language which has borrowed many words from Latin. Many words that sound Latin came to English via French.