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Smellvin - 2010-02-07

I'm curious: how many other people voted this video up just because they thought the woman speaking was kind of hot in a librarian sort of way?


Scynne - 2010-02-07

Yeah. Sexy lady definitely gets my stars, if you know what I mean.


HankFinch - 2010-02-07

I'm going to kiss her-No, I don't know... I'm embarrassed.


Riskbreaker - 2010-02-08

I have crazy taste in women, but i felt she was average at best.


Sacks5thAvenButt - 2010-02-08

me


Syd Midnight - 2010-02-08

I could see her dropping acid at a Butthole Surfers concert in '95, but doesn't party as much since she got a degree and tenure.


Camonk - 2010-02-07

This is a fine, and she's not wrong. And sure she's kind of cute.

But English isn't screwed up, you faggots. Most of the things people call "irregularities" in English are perfectly systematic. Jesus.

Luckily, she never says English is screwed up.


memedumpster - 2010-02-07

"...and in numerous and other random exceptions" doesn't sound very systematic.

But to quote La Loco, "Can I has librarian on lap dance?"


Camonk - 2010-02-07

Of course it doesn't, cause it's some bint on a dictionary's website.


Camonk - 2010-02-07

Aside from that, even the nearly perfectly-wrong Noam Chomsky thinks that English orthography is very near the ideal system. It just gets my goat when people are all Oh English is a whore English is screwed up.


memedumpster - 2010-02-07

I've never really thought of languages as something to be judged or not based on, well, I don't know really. It's like saying that the whale is screwed up, or anything else that evolved over time from something else. It doesn't seem like a fair assessment. I didn't know English had a design goal that it failed to meet.


facek - 2010-02-08

It's only screwed up if you think "I before E" is some sort of english rule.


Xenocide - 2010-02-08

Exactly. What she's driving at is that it's not the language that's screwed up, it's the "I before E" rule.


cakewalk - 2010-02-08

you'd have to be pretty fucking stupid to call chomsky "near-perfectly wrong" or even to use that phrase


MrBuddy - 2010-02-07

Weird, that doesn't even rhyme.


HankFinch - 2010-02-07

Ah, but English IS screwed up, and you too are a faggot. And that is why you are here. These "irregularities" will be corrected, just as you will be corrected.


Camonk - 2010-02-07

Well, English is no more or less screwed up than any other language.

It took about 20 years of people speaking it as a natural language for them to fuck up Esperanto, after all. (And that's awesome.)


HankFinch - 2010-02-07

ah shit, that was supposed to be goofy reply to Camonk


FABIO - 2010-02-08

Fuck's sake. Has anyone here even LOOKED at another language? English loses on spelling alone.


Xenocide - 2010-02-08

Oh shit, guys, English loses. I hope no one put too much money on English in the big language match tonight.


frau_eva - 2010-02-08

Every language has their own bits of unnecessarily complicated weirdness that makes no sense. English's just happens to be spelling. Japanese's is not only the convoluted writing system, but having a different way of counting every single differently-shaped object(many of which make no sense, since things like ties are counted as cylindrical objects). Most romance languages have completely arbitrary genders on everything, sometimes contradicting the thing's actual gender. Not to mention the fact that French seriously counts things like "four-score and seven years ago." Mark Twain devoted an entire essay to the many ways German is totally nonsensical.

I think the evolution metaphor is apt. We've evolved out most of the unnecessary parts that weigh us down, but we've still got tailbones and tonsils and appendixes now and then that just don't fall away.


Bored - 2010-02-07

English got screwy during the Great Vowel Shift. Thanks you fucking Franco-phone mother fuckers for making a Germanic language sound Latinate. However, had that not happened, "English" would have been a front-rhyming language still and we wouldn't get the Wu-Tang.

ANY OF YOU COCK SUCKERS WANT TO KNIFE FIGHT OVER THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE?


Raggamuffin - 2010-02-07

Attractive woman talking about words! My one weakness!


oogaBooga - 2010-02-08

Description atrocities.


Goethe and ernie - 2010-02-08

Five stars for language discussions on poetv, whoever called Chomsky wrong can kill my balls though.


retrocious - 2010-02-08

I'm guessing killing your balls would be a bad thing, but now I'm not so sure. I'm not gonna say anything about Noam Chomsky one way or another though, just in case.


oddeye - 2014-09-13

You want your balls killed?


sven - 2010-02-09

As a non-native speaker, my biggest problem with the language is the occasional native speaker acting surprised when I produce anything more complicated than a grunt.


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