I didn't really know if this should be in the competitions forum or here or wherever.
Ladies and Gentlemen!! Raggit the retard announces one of the dumbest competitions yet! The "Let's rewrite the english language" contest! Yes, it's stoopid and pointless, but so are we! ;D
There are so many words that are spelt differently than they are pronounced. Like "island".
Think of as many words as you can to change and add them to the list. There are really no winners, so just have fun.
Original: Island
New: Iland
Original: Portion
New: Poorshun
Original: Shoe
New: Shoo
Original: Adventure Game Studio
New: Advensure Gayme Stoodeo
It shood bee, lets reryt tha Inglish langwidg
Or we could switch to Esperanto.
This maiks noe sents. Wie, wie wie?
Quote from: EvenWolf on Fri 19/12/2003 17:19:13
This maiks noe sents. Wie, wie wie?
Now yor getteng it!!!!! :D
QuoteOriginal: Shoe
New: Shoo
But now how will I distinguish that thing on my foot from that sound I make to get rid of small children?
Since when is saying "shoo" is a contraceptive?
Ghoti <--- look, I spelled "fish"!
"GH" as in couGH, "O" as in wOmen, and "TI" as in staTIon.
Nellie, here's what you can do... instead of saying "shoo", just say "beet it", "piss off", or "git lost". Or, "Yoo dertee littl helyuns, go bother yer muther er sumthin!"
I think rewriting the english language would involve getting rid of a few letters in the alphabet. Like "C" and "K" make the same sound, only difference is "C" also sometimes makes an "S" sound. Or some letters could be replaced with a combination of letters, "X" would be "EKS".
This almost seems like it would be a new form of 1337.
... Mandable clicks...
Quote from: Dr. Jekyll? ~ MR. HYDE! on Fri 19/12/2003 19:53:17
Ghoti <--- look, I spelled "fish"!
"GH" as in couGH, "O" as in wOmen, and "TI" as in staTIon.
Nellie, here's what you can do... instead of saying "shoo", just say "beet it", "piss off", or "git lost". Or, "Yoo dertee littl helyuns, go bother yer muther er sumthin!"
http://www.ualr.edu/~owl/howtospell.htm
Also, which President (or some famous person) was it that tried to change the spelling of words? A reporter didn't like the idea and wrote an entire misspelled collumn on the topic.
I thought I would bring up Newspeak, which I love entirely. It comes in handy in situations where one cannot think of the right word to use.
http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns_frames.html
Andrew Carnegie, for some time, was the leader/president of the Simplified Spelling board. There was a President who began backing it but I can't remember which one. I do, however, remember what Mark Twain said about Simplified Spelling: "Simplified spelling brought about sun-spots, the San Francisco earthquake, and the recent business depression, which we would never have had if spelling had been left all alone."
Werriam Webster, the almighty guardian of American English insisted in all his early dictionaries that through was spelt thru, and many similar spellings. However, at other times he insisted that another illogical spelling stay.
Benjamin Franklin was also an adovocate of simplified spelling, "lest Englsih become no more than a pictorial asiatic language"
Eye fele eye hav a good grasp on the inglish langooage. Wy complikate it?
Ai þink ðat if eni spelling refóm šud bi implementid intú ðe Ingliš langwidž, it šud bi a mór fonetikali akyuret sistem, insted ov a sistem ðat is mérli diferent from ðe wan karentli in yúz, bat ikwali komplikeitid.
Ãe 'komplexiti' ov ðe karent sistem, ólso, has bin haili exagereitid, as it has bin próvd ðat iven wið a ráðer simpel set ov rúlz, a kompyuter kan Ãzili predikt ðe pranansieyÅ¡en ov eni given IngliÅ¡ wéd.
Eni refóm ov ðe kaind Å¡own priviusli in ðis þred wud bi ráþer anneseseri, as it wud not rÃli solv ani ov ðe problemz ðat mait posibli exist--ownli a sistem ov a mór fonetikal neitÅ¡er wud in ani wey posibli bi worþ ðe trabel a spelling refóm mÃns, end Ãven ðat is kwait anneseseri, given ðe fakt ðat ðe karent sistem wéks fain.
Bai ðe wei, þówz interestid in traying awt a refóm ov ðis neitÅ¡er will probabli--at lÃst if maximum akurasi is wontid--rekwayer a simbol representing a schwa (a mid-sentrel vawel). Ãe standard IPA simbol--an apsaid-dawn e wud wék, bat ðe limitid karakter set alawd on ðis fórum prevents mi from yuzing it. Ã"lso, a simbol to represent [ŋ] wud bi helpful, ðow not neseseri.
De fany zinc sud bi dat non inglish spikers urait foneticly jau inglish is wraitid in deir oun linguich.
"The funny thing should be that non English speakers write foneticaly how English is writed in their own lenguaje"
Dis jas bin me wraitinc jast jau inglish saunds for spaniards.
"This has been me writing just how English sounds for Spaniards"
Gouae sioult goue nto dat? Ae meen, Engkles es jast faen as et es
Keep it at-least somewhat readable, of the Gestapo will be 'round to bust up this rally like a highschool kegger!
C.
Quote from: c.leksutin on Sat 20/12/2003 17:20:46
Keep it at-least somewhat readable, of the Gestapo will be 'round to bust up this rally like a highschool kegger!
C.
Yes, he's right, let's keep this readable and in English, not spanish or whatever, as most people here speak English.
And you might wanna provide a translation along with it:
Yes, hees rite, lets keep dis reedable and n inglish, not spanish or watever, as most pepel here speek inglish.
aai haav a feeling dat it iz inglish and not spanish dat dey ar speekayng in. Aai just caant go thru da trubel of triang too translayt it. It iz surprizingli haard to mayk dis spelt diffrent from haow it soundz.
poobungies to this.
Wats poobungies????????????
I just remembered something. In the article "What is and Ain't Grammatical", Dave Barry makes fun of the English language. He says that the colonists who came to America they rebelled against the British grammer in the Declaration of Independence. He says that they deliberately misspelled words. Dave Barry also has a lot of other amusing things to say in that article.
Here it is (search for "What is and Ain't Grammatical"):
http://www.pacificsoundcraft.com/sbarta/nitpick.html
QuoteKeep it at-least somewhat readable, of the Gestapo will be 'round to bust up this rally like a highschool kegger!
Gouot de f<bep> gouaz rong gouith mae krap?
What the f<beep> was wrong with my crap?
for thiz tuu axuallee work wee wood haf tuu post something to be re ritten, and tha next peirsun wood post the reviezed verzun along with something for tha next peirsun to 'Re-Ryet'