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English makes no damn sense

Discussion in 'General' started by HPPT, Mar 10, 2023.

  1. fastfreddie

    fastfreddie Midnight Oil Garage

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    :D
     
  2. fastfreddie

    fastfreddie Midnight Oil Garage

    Well, yeah, but...I found no mention of French in association with the word. Like it went straight to English from the Latin "animale" in the 14c.

    Fucking internet dictionaries are worthless.
     
  3. HPPT

    HPPT !!!

    Were you looking in a French dictionary?
     
  4. fastfreddie

    fastfreddie Midnight Oil Garage

    No. I wish I could remember where I misplaced my dictionary. Thing's the size of the Gutenberg Bible. How do you lose a book bigger than a boot box?
     
  5. HPPT

    HPPT !!!

    You had a French dictionary?
     
  6. fastfreddie

    fastfreddie Midnight Oil Garage

    No. It's a very good dictionary tho'. You know, the kind where a word's definition starts out with, first off, where the hell the word came from to begin with...all its roots, dates included.

    I haven't seen it in twenty years so I may be "misremembering". :D

    How the fuck did that ever become a word? :rolleyes:
     
  7. HPPT

    HPPT !!!

    And it tells you all the other languages that a variation of the word is used in?
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    Last edited: Mar 16, 2023
  8. fastfreddie

    fastfreddie Midnight Oil Garage

    Like I said, it's been a while. But the transition of words, from their inception to modern English, was noted. If a word ever passed through French before becoming a common English word, I'm sure that would be mentioned.
     
  9. pickled egg

    pickled egg Well-Known Member

  10. nigel smith

    nigel smith Well-Known Member

    In spite of common Indo-European roots and the fact that Gaul was located in part of modern day France, modern Gaelic languages have little relation to currently spoken French. Being a bit Celtic myself, I think that I can say that if you made that comparison to a native speaker of Gaelic, you would be labelled a daft wee maun. Or perhaps belabored with a shillelagh.
     
  11. R Acree

    R Acree Banned

    Wee
     
  12. auminer

    auminer Renaissance Redneck

    Did you see Vu play?
     
  13. fastfreddie

    fastfreddie Midnight Oil Garage

    I was curious about whether there might be a connection.
    Tossing in that nobody outside that language understands it was for humorous effect...perhaps you've not seen the movie.
     
  14. fastfreddie

    fastfreddie Midnight Oil Garage

    th.jpeg
     
  15. pfhenry

    pfhenry Well-Known Member

    Air or ERR (breathing shit)
    am-bue-lance or am-bahhh-lance lol
    lol been watching Will Sasso doing a Michael Rapaport impression lol
     
  16. gixxernaut

    gixxernaut Hold my beer & watch this

    There once was a man with a comb
    Whose head was shaped like a bomb
    With no hair to part
    He looked like a dart
    Till the day he was laid in the tomb
     
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  17. pfhenry

    pfhenry Well-Known Member

    Australia folk must think we are saying "Twin- Ease" when we say "twenties" ... or vise versa ... i'm not sure at this point due to southern upbringing. lol

    used in a sentence : That Harley Davidson sure is using a lot of twin- ease... lol
     
    Last edited: Jun 17, 2025
  18. brex

    brex Well-Known Member

    You don't pronounce the second t?
    I say "TWEN-tees"
     
  19. ChemGuy

    ChemGuy Harden The F%@# Up!

    If war breaks out we need to clone that old guy (Gerald) from Clarksons Farm. He could talk on the radio unsecured and no one could understand what was going on. He’s like the Navajo Code guys, but worse.

    The enemy would never no what hit them.
     
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  20. britx303

    britx303 Boomstick Butcher…..

    Not sure if true or not, but I read they double dub Gerald for comedic effect, and he isn’t as bad as it shows. Either way, it is funny
     

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