There are words which are obviously spelled wrong. Why not correct them? For example, sandwich should be breadwich and hamburger should be beefburger.
2007-01-02 13:30:38 · 7 answers · asked by rickyshyd608 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
should but doesn't - it's one of the most difficult languages.
2007-01-02 13:38:24 · answer #1 · answered by Jared L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English is a healthy language who's complexity is one of the reasons it has flourished and become the international language of commerce.
Simplify it and you will render it soul-less. You will reduce the creativity of those who speak it. The language would die if it could no longer grow.
The examples you chose are perfect reasons why--
A sandwich is named after an English gentleman who commanded his chef to slap meat between slices of bread so he could eat and play cards at the same time. His "noble" title was the "Earl of Sandwich" which was shortened in to "sandwich" as an honor to him.
Calling it a "breadwich" makes no sense at all. What do you suppose the "wich" part means.
Very similarly, our hamburgers were named after a chopped steak dish once popular in Hamburg Germany... There was never any town called "Beefburg".
2007-01-02 21:48:18 · answer #2 · answered by chocolahoma 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hamburger isn't English, it's German. Sandwich is named after the Earl of Sandwich. Also breadwich doesn't make any more sense since the wich part doesn't have a meaning.
2007-01-02 21:37:43 · answer #3 · answered by Raul D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English is one of the most "precise" and complex languages on Earth and as a result is becoming universal in at's acceptance as an international language,
Witness the use of Engish in the airline industry worldwide
Sounds like a cute question but begs the question: how old are you and where are you from?
2007-01-02 22:05:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Another thing it doesn't make much sense is why "I" must be linked to "have" instead of "has"....
Like "I have a toothache." Not, "I has a toothache". The weird thing is that the word "I" represents an individual or singular. And singulars normally linked to the words like "is" or "has".
But senseless as it gets, it does sounds pretty nice.
2007-01-02 21:43:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those are words, hamburg is a city where it was made. our slang doesn't determine the 'correct' lang/
2007-01-02 21:36:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think every thing should be spelled and pronounced phonetically, Down with the silent letters, death to repetitious vowels.
2007-01-02 21:41:06 · answer #7 · answered by morbidsmindtrip 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋