Secondly are you intrested in making a new language contaning only necessary English words and easier to learn .
We don't have a plural for you. So we have to say you guys or you all. Watch the second hand on my watch.Which witch looks more scary?
words like : through and though and tough
there and their and they're
then and than
accept and except
weather and whether
and so on!
Too much slang and abbreviations!
From the point of view of learning it I think the pronunciation is probably the most difficult. And the fact that every single rule of grammar and spelling has exceptions and the exceptions are never consistant.
2007-03-22 04:45:30 · 15 answers · asked by ambani 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I worry about many things, but this hasn't made my list.....
2007-03-23 20:09:56 · answer #1 · answered by AUNTY 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This question and your comments will give English teachers gray hair.
First, we are blessed to have a language that adapts to our lives and continues to grow as things change. To worry about the expansion of language is to lack an understanding of progress. As science and technology progress and bring us new and better understanding of the universe and ways to interact, new words are necessary to describe things. The only thing that could stop the expansion of language would be the stagnation of society.
Regarding the word, "YOU" it is both singular and plural. You do not need to say, "you guys," just say "you." That is sufficient and sounds considerably better.
I do agree that our language is complicated, but so are our lives. That should be celebrated not regretted.
2007-03-22 04:54:31 · answer #2 · answered by Suzianne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
words won't wreck any bones. i'm lots greater passionate on the subject of the increasing type of persons than with words. living languages consistently evolve. some words are extra; some fall out of use. There was evolution of pronunciation to boot -- it incredibly is why French is unintelligible to Italians -- yet that would have been arrested by ability of the fashionable distribution of common dialects.
2016-10-01 08:03:24 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course we have a plural for you, it is Y'All (south made it up thank you) but of course i am a stupid yankee so as long as it is easier to learn and doesnt add pages or weight to the current dictionary then i wouldnt be concerned about substituting a dictionary for a dunbell!LOL!!
2007-03-22 04:51:16 · answer #4 · answered by Angel Wings 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL sure I"m worried about it... we are always gettin gmore and more words.. I can't even keep up with the old ones... =( I'm dyslexic and the more words there are the harder it is for me to keekp them stright.. .ugh... I'm not nto into a new language..it took me long enough to learn this one... LOL (it's the only one I speak)...
2007-03-22 04:50:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My God are these the things you have to worry about? Are you for real, with all the problems people on this planet face I can't imagine that very many of us are going to lose sleep over this one.
2007-03-22 04:53:12 · answer #6 · answered by kmv 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not the new words that scare, it's the lack of people who will actually use them that worries me! As you can see on Y! Answers, not many people know the difference between there, their and they're...etc...
2007-03-22 04:49:31 · answer #7 · answered by B2B2008 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't be sarciphourus ! There are just as many words as needed to prementorate your point of view no matter how decuncsiative it may be.
2007-03-22 04:53:09 · answer #8 · answered by derstrudelmonkey 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not me I would like to add a few actually...like pube..it's not a word in the dictionary but I use it all the time.
2007-03-22 04:49:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i could care less, alot more to worry about than dumb words that rappers made up
2007-03-22 04:48:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋