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WHO OWNS ENGLISH?
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20 Feb 2008 Wed 06:47 pm |
Quoting yilgun-7: It is impossible to understand it? |
To understand what? Sorry, I have no idea why your posts sometimes seem to be cut in halves
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20 Feb 2008 Wed 06:49 pm |
Spanish is not a scientific language.But Mandarin Chinese, Russian, French and German are important languages.
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20 Feb 2008 Wed 06:51 pm |
yilgun..am I the only one going mad or is there really some sense in your questions?
What do you mean important? how can one language be more important than another. It is usually pure coincidence that one language becomes more popular than another but... "important"? In what sense?
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20 Feb 2008 Wed 06:51 pm |
I could not explain....
The English Language is a global Language, a world language.
But who rules this internatiomal language?
Where is the Scientific language center?
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20 Feb 2008 Wed 06:54 pm |
Because a language is like an organism..Who cares it?
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20 Feb 2008 Wed 06:54 pm |
Ok, Aenigma - a native English user said there is no centre controlling English, no central authority governing it.
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20 Feb 2008 Wed 06:57 pm |
So English language lives in free language market like an economy.
Ne güzel.
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20 Feb 2008 Wed 06:59 pm |
Wow thanks for the link
Here is your answer Yilgun:-
"Standard English is a term generally applied to a form of the English language that is thought to be normative for educated users. There are no set rules or vocabulary for any putative "Standard English" because, unlike languages such as French, Italian, Spanish or Dutch, English does not have a governing body (see Académie française, Accademia della Crusca, Real Academia Española, Nederlandse Taalunie, Dansk Sprognævn) to establish usage.
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20 Feb 2008 Wed 07:00 pm |
I must thank to AEGNIMA and DAYDREAMER for their kind contribution...
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20 Feb 2008 Wed 08:05 pm |
I just want to let you all know that English belongs to me now. I just bought it this morning. I will be sending you all revised language books in the near future. I have decided to make my changes starting with Europe. Here is your first lesson in advance:
English in the World Community:
I am announcing that English will be the official
language of the European Union rather than
German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, I have conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft
"c".
Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants
jump with
joy.
The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k".
This
should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan
have one
less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the
sekond
year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced
with
"f". This will make words like fotograf 20%
shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new
spelling
kan be expekted to reach the stage where more
komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkourage the removal of double
letters which have always ben a deterent to
akurate
speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the
silent
"e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should
go
away.
By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps
such as
replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be
dropd from
vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve
vil
hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and
evrivun vil
find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a
united
urop vil finali kum tru.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking
German
like zey vunted in ze forst plas.
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