I'm sorry but this statement confuses me.
I suspect English might not be your first language and some things are difficult to get across.
I've intended to make Microsoft Word, Wordpad and Notepad with all the Greek and math/science characters I routinely use for several years now but I'd never got around to it.
I created the documents last night so now I can open the appropriate document and cut and paste the desired Greek letter or math/science symbol.
I'm still limited and won't be able to properly produce the subscript 2 as in H2O. Subscript means the 2 is offset a half line below the H and O, similarly I won't be able to produce superscripts, the one that comes to mind first is 2 to the 4th power, 22 with the second 2 raised a half line above the first 2. Yes I know the convention is 2^2 but I prefer to go old school when I can.
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My comment about English not being your first language was not meant as an insult, English is a difficult language to master because we've taken words from nearly every language we've interacted with and added them to a prexisting mess/mix of various Celtic languages, Anglo-Saxon (they were distinct languages), then tossed French in for the nobles with a dash of Latin added just for fun in legal and church contexts.
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And, just to keep it interesting, we've thrown logic in the trash heap.
Go going gone [or went], why not Go Going Goed?
Mouse, mice, house houses....
[And yes I know the historical linguistic reasons for such insanity.]
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"“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse . We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”
―?James D. Nicoll
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Look up "The problem with defending the purity of the English language" to see what is covering up.
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I read Latin and read/speak Spanish, Spanih is vulgar (common) Latin with 800 years of Arabic influence.
Learning Spanish drove me nuts because it was so similar to classical Latin but had all these little? oddities.
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At least Attic Greek is frozen in time and doesn't change.
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If I had the skill and time I'd love to learn French and German. I can fake it in Italian and Romanian and sort of fake it in Portugese, which is extremely similar to the Galacian Spanish dialect.
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[We Americans tend to think of Spanish as a single language, the constitution of Spain says "Castilian is the official Spanish language of the state" and all Spaniards have the duty to know it and the right to use it;?however, other Spanish languages can also be official within their respective autonomous communities as defined by their statutes, recognizing the richness of Spain's linguistic diversity as a cultural heritage to be protected. " Note "other Spanish languages can also be official within their respective autonomous communities" So, are the "other Spanish languages true languages or mere dialects?]
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Does anyone know the difference between a langauge and dialect?
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Max Weinreich, a sociolinguist and Yiddish scholar, is known for saying, “A language is a dialect with an army and navy."
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If you think we have disagreements, you ought to attend a linguistics conference, if words were knives, there'd be a gallons of blood on the floor. Academics make war mongers look like flower children pacifists.
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And you can thank/curse Noah Webster for the primary spelling differences between American English and British English. From the perspective of a dyslexic. cursed by Noah Webster and his name.
And why is it still flour or four but color and not colour, the lor/lour sure sounds the same to this ex-hillbilly.
I actually feel sorry for anyone who has to learn English as an adult.? Heck I feel sorry for anyone who has/had to learn English as a child!
I was born in Appalachia but my parents moved to Lexington when I was 3 months old. From the age of 5 until I was 15 I spent at least a month with my grandparents in Appalachia, it was like visiting a foreign nation, the local language/dialect was so different from flatland English as spoke in Lexington as to be amazing.
I know we have members from all over the world and try to write as clear and precise as possible [
Go on an laugh I do], but it is extremely difficult not to slip into casual/imprecise English.
Derek Koonce
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