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Offline TheBilgeRat

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Re: WTFF : Why I do a mental blocking on english ? Help me !!
« on: September 15, 2011, 09:20:55 PM »
Quote from: Cosmos;659473
My french is so perfect...

English is far away easier than french : why my english is so crappy ??


I do a mental blocking on this langage : why ? How to remove it from my head ?



HELP !!!!

OK, here's what you do... I'll give options for the main varieties of english out there (Aussie, American, and Ye olde Original)

First:  Stop drinking wine if you do when having a cocktail etc.  Drink beer instead.  For Aussie and American English (Not including the Pacific Northwest), pick a crappy store brand lager and drink no less than n+6 of them.  For British English or American PNW english, drink a fine stout or ale or lambic brewed at the pub you are frequenting.  The glass should measure at least one imperial pint.

Second:  watch lots of crappy american daytime television.  or the BBC.  whichever.  For aussie?  Maybe just watch Crocodile Dundee a bunch.  Or Mad MAx.

Third:  You seem like a pretty happy dude.  For proper english speaking, you should be mad or at the least, irritated.  Stubbing your toe helps, or staring long at a picture of smilin' George Bush.

fourth:  Realize its basically a germanic language and we have a kajillion special cases for words because we talk too damn much and agree on nothing.
 

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Re: WTFF : Why I do a mental blocking on english ? Help me !!
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2011, 06:24:58 AM »
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bajillion, bazillion, gazillion, jillion, squillion, kabillion, googillion, umptillion, zillion....
Got a higher grade on £nglish?




ooh, a squillion!  that's a great word for an indeterminately large sum!


Mind if I borrow?
 

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Re: WTFF : Why I do a mental blocking on english ? Help me !!
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2011, 03:13:20 PM »
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English is like the x86 of the human language world.  We should all speak Hebrew, it's like MIPS!


Crazy backwards language :D