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leisure
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weird
leisure
caffeine
vein
their
height
What the hell happened here???
I always hated that rule. I don't even think it deserves to be called a rule.
yea, even though it does apply in most words, there are alot of exceptions, and it can get confusing. I've spelled it "wierd" for years.
Yeah... Especially since most of the exceptions don't come after C. :?
full rhyme
caffeine still fails, but heyQuote:
If the sound is "ee", it's I before E, except after C
I always heard: "i before e except after c and for the way a like in neighbour and weigh."
Caffeine can kiss my ass, I'm going to spell it caffiene from now on out of spite :tongue:
O.O I never knew there was a part before that but whoever made up caffeine didnt follow the rules
and weird still doesnt work :P
In german it's exactly the opposite, aka logical.
English is one of the languages that makes up the rules as it goes.
Heck even pronunciation of words changes from decades.
Even with all of the additions to the rule that exculde ":after C," "when sounding like A," etc, it turns out that 30% of the time it's wrong. Somwhere in the 30% range. Less than 38%.
Jets got the math down to the percent lol
Some college did a study based on words still in common use from several unabridged dictionaries. Bah, I say, for calling these useless mnemonics rules.
Also, German does not violate its own rules, ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marvo
Violation of rules in the English language is the standard, not the exception.:roll:
If any word could be irregular, it would be "weird"
Good collection though, I remember trying to find all the words that failed to follow the rule and show them to my teacher but she was just like, "This is english, not math."
Ugh I would slap that teacher for being so stupidQuote:
Originally Posted by Omnius Deus
If you guys were geniuses like me you wouldn't be having spelling problems.
:roll:
Vase.Quote:
Originally Posted by Euthanatos
My English teachers always taught me those rules but also taught that some words were "rulebreakers". What a load of crap.
If you think English is annoying in that regard, Danish is gonna make your brains bleed.
Basically most verbs go like this;
Spis - Spiser - Spiste
Eat - Eating - Ate
However, there are lots of irregular words, like gå. Gå means walk.
Gå - Går - Gik
Walk - Walking - Walked
The list goes on an on, and it's about hard-bent word and stuff.
Lægge - Lægger - Lagde (put/lay)
Ligge - Ligger - Lå (lie as in lying in the bed)
It also gets funny with nouns, because just like german, they have different starts, though a bit simplified. There's absolutely no system however. It basically is that in front of nouns, you got et/en as a/an, but since there's no system, it's a matter of you knowing all of them, just like German with their maskuline, feminine and neutrum. Whether it's et or en also says something about if you're using det or den (the danish equivalent of the) and how the noun is bent in pluralis and whatnot.
For instance, house.
House - Houses - The house - The houses
In danish it's funnier!
Et hus - Huse - Huset () - Husene
However, 'The house' could also just be 'det hus', however it cannot be used in an equally broad range of contexts, which is why so many people find danish difficult to learn. Then there's the entire deal with pronouncination, I'm not even gonna get in on that. The only good thing about it, is that we are able to make correct English pronounciation, unlike Germans and French.
Oh and numbers.
Et = 1
En = 1
To = 2
Tre = 3 (sounds almost completely like træ, which means tree)
Fire = 4
Fem = 5
Seks = 6
Syv = 7
Otte = 8
Ni = 9
Ti = 10
That's rather simple, however when you go into double digits, it's hard if you want to be completely correct when talking.
20 = tyve (pluralis of tyv which is "thief" in english)
30 = Tredive
40 = Fyrre OR if you want to be correct, fyrretyvende
50 = Halvtreds OR halvtredsindstyvende
60 = Tres OR tresindstyvende
70 = Halvfjerds OR halvfjerdsindstyvende
80 = Firs OR firsindstyvende
90 = Halvfems OR halvfremsindtyvende
100 = Hundrede OR ethundrede.
So
Ethundredeogseksoghalvfemsindstyvende is 196. It's absolutely insane. Oh and also:
Million = Million
Milliard = Billion
Billion = Trillion
Billiard = Kvadrillion
Trillion = Quintillion
Trilliard = Sextillion
Quadrillion = Septillion
We use scientifically correct terms for high-amount numbers :P
Danish :D
edit:
Found this on uncyclopedia about danish numbers
100 = Halvfjerdsihalvtredsintyvendepotensmedflødeog kogtekartoflerhakkebøffyldetmedgufogetlilleki rsebærpåtop
Translates into
Seventy in fiftieth potense with cream and boiled potatoes beaf filled with candy and a little cherry on top.
90 = Nidtendusinhalvsnesgrossfyrrefemtedelssnesdeletp&# 229;femogtyve
Nineteen dozen half score gross fourty over five score divided by twentyfive.
Gah! Im scared of danish now lol
Which is why I take spanish where 196 is ciento noventa y seis XD
caffe is the italian word for coffee
ine is a suffix used to show the base word is only a relation to what the full word is.
so Caffeine is a substance that is related to coffee.
Aldo -ine is a suffix used to show that the chemical is an alkaline that contains nitrogen, such as caffeine.
Well, caffeine is down, anyone up for weird or leisure?
But then again, british ppl pronounce leisure differen than english so perhaps theres an exception :?
WHAT ABOUT SCIENCE.
Seriously I always thought this rule was fucked up.
:o your rightQuote:
Originally Posted by Xei
Science makes sense atleast.