Fuk English, this language is so fuked up. I'm not content with the content of the English language. If you don't think that it's a fuked up language, try to comprehend this complete and correct sentence.
Lead and read rhymes, lead and read rhymes, but lead and read don't rhyme and neither does lead and read.
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Maybe thats why the yanks have trouble with the pronunciation of words lol I had to learn this sh@t at school and still get it wrong 30 yrs later Its my native language I am a Brit Nerf the English... lol
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Given that the 'a' in hall, cat, father, fare and mate all have different pronunciations...
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[quote]Given that the 'a' in hall, cat, father, fare and mate all have different pronunciations...[/quote] This. So messed up... English is -blam!-ed up lol
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Mmm to be fair, hall and father have the same 'a' sound.
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Do they? Maybe its just me but i beg to differ.
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British or American? Then you could ask the question, where in Britain or America?
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Why is it always British or American English.... why cant we say Australian English! HAHAHA
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I always forget about you guys 😭
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In what variant of English? In British English father has a long 'a' sound whereas in hall it sounds more like the Danish/Norwegian/Swedish letter å.
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[quote]In what variant of English? In British English father has a long 'a' sound whereas in hall it sounds more like the Danish/Norwegian/Swedish letter å.[/quote] What? I know a few Brits and none of them say "fay-ther." Are you from some strange corner of England that doesn't say "father" like the rest or do you not know what a long vowel sound is?
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Edited by Dr_Sorethumb: 4/17/2016 2:19:55 PMI've known it as this: Long a is like the 'ar' sound in far, car or tar. Short a is as cat, rat, sat, mat or grass. The 'a' in mate I call an 'ay' or 'ai' sound.
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I suppose it's possible that long vs short vowels have entirely different meanings in the US and UK. That said, in the US everything you listed has a short vowel sound. All vowels have various short vowel sounds but only one long vowel sound. A "long a" is the sound in "bay," "fake," or "stain" where the vowel sound is the same as if you say the letter's name. So some other long vowels would be "game," "keep," "die," "hope," "queue," and so forth.
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Fair enough. American English, father and hall are quite similar.
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So no one should even try, is that what you're saying? We should all just degenerate into mindless Neanderthal? That's not for me thanks.
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Edited by GrayWo1f3 xim4: 4/17/2016 9:43:04 PMWe could all learn to communicate by clicking like that one tribe somewhere...
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-blam!- - one of, if not the only word that can form a complete sentence on its own: -blam!- - -blam!-ing -blam!-er's -blam!-ed
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-blam!- you ya -blam!-ing -blam!-ed -blam!-stick
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Never go full retard
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That's what you mama keep telling you while growing up?
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How did you know my mom's growing ups? Did you know she's also growing.....potatoes She wanted you to have some brothers and sisters.....my moms nice like that
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Love me a good up in the morning.
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So what you're saying is that English is too hard so you're going to give up without even really trying. And that sentence about rhyming is old and trite. Rhyming is about the phonetics of a word not about the spelling. Most of the time the spelling of a word dictates the phonetics, but not all of the time. It happens quite often that we pronounce words differently than they are spelled due to regional accents for example or due to natural digression of spoken words to make the words shorter. An example of the latter is the contraction "you're" which changes the phonetics completely from "you are". But I should probably stop now as you've clearly just given up on communicating in clear and unambiguous ways.
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I didn't say it was too hard. Did you not read what I wrote? What part of "English is fuked up" that you didn't understand and part of what I wrote that translate to, "it's too hard" ?
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Hahaha touché
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