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[kisame12794]

My back hurts right between my shoulderblades, and for some reason, all attempts to stretch it fail miserably. Goddamn it back, why are you hurting!

[wierd]

A stressed muscle is most likely causal.

If you have a partner or family member, ask for a massage.

[LordSlowpoke]

this is about time i tell you guys i know jack shit about how english works and my ability to communicate in it has been derived from failing at it horribly until i reached a level when people stopped being confused about the meanings i wish to convey

they still do sometimes, but more often than not it's understandable

same with my native, but in that osmosis has been graceful enough that i learned how to make up convincing new words and confuse the fuck out people

[Descan]

Anglish is the idea of what English would look like if the Norman invasion hadn't taken place, and it was purely Germanic/Brythonic. Basically, no "foreign" words (French, Latin, Greek, Arabic, etc. Anglo-Saxon only, and words of that nature)

So basically, it would SOUND like someone yelling angrily.

No but seriously it sounds really weird, kind of cool too.

[Max White]

So... it sounds like a Scottish accent then? 
But seriously, are there any clips out there of what it would sound like?

[Elephant Parade]

this is about time i tell you guys i know jack shit about how english works and my ability to communicate in it has been derived from failing at it horribly until i reached a level when people stopped being confused about the meanings i wish to convey

they still do sometimes, but more often than not it's understandable

same with my native, but in that osmosis has been graceful enough that i learned how to make up convincing new words and confuse the fuck out people

Your style seems to work quite well. Grammar mistakes normally bother me, but with this it's almost like you're using a completely different language. It's easy to read.

[Descan]

I tried looking, couldn't find any. :/

There are some examples, like an explanation of atomic theory, and some others though.

[kaian-a-coel]

The grammar nazi from the 1600s would rail every bit against "Jail", as you just did against "I herd..."

It so happens that "I herd" means something already, something entirely different from "I heard", and that's the freaking problem. Loss of unambiguity.

EDIT: And you made me forgot why I was here in the first place, which is my noisy neighbour throwing a party on a monday night, music up to eleven until midnight. And the police not showing up until ten minutes after the end of the party. I am now stuck with less hours of sleep than I have hours of school today and the bastard will do it again soon.

[Elephant Parade]

The grammar nazi from the 1600s would rail every bit against "Jail", as you just did against "I herd..."

It so happens that "I herd" means something already, something entirely different from "I heard", and that's the freaking problem. Loss of unambiguity.

EDIT: And you made me forgot why I was here in the first place, which is my noisy neighbour throwing a party on a monday night, music up to eleven until midnight. And the police not showing up until ten minutes after the end of the party. I am now stuck with less hours of sleep than I have hours of school today and the bastard will do it again soon.

Hmm. I would advise either talking to your other neighbors about banding together together to send in a complaint, or invest in earplugs.

[scrdest]

The grammar nazi from the 1600s would rail every bit against "Jail", as you just did against "I herd..."

It so happens that "I herd" means something already, something entirely different from "I heard", and that's the freaking problem. Loss of unambiguity.

EDIT: And you made me forgot why I was here in the first place, which is my noisy neighbour throwing a party on a monday night, music up to eleven until midnight. And the police not showing up until ten minutes after the end of the party. I am now stuck with less hours of sleep than I have hours of school today and the bastard will do it again soon.

Hmm. I would advise either talking to your other neighbors about banding together together to send in a complaint, or invest in earplugs.

Also, it's not like 'gaol' was the One True Spelling at the time since, again, people were playing fast and loose with the language rules, using whatever spelling of the word they though looks neat, so 'gaol' and 'jail' were two valid spellings, it just happened that one gained more popularity before the spelling rules coagulated into something more rigid.

The original pre-Norman spelling rules were quite interesting, people just used the letter that sounds like the phoneme the most and there was little to no interaction between letters in a word, so for example 'Queen' was spelled 'Cwine'. In a way, more intuitive, although the spellings look so damn weird from modern perspective.

[Flying Dice]

Yeah, the main issue was comprehension, because different people will naturally have different pronunciations, and if your spelling system is essentially "spell it like it sounds", that leads to a lot of confusion and inconsistency. It's still interesting to read, but I wouldn't like to live in a time where people wrote things however, because you'd have to waste a lot of time parsing things just because of dialect differences.


E: Also, the term "grammar Nazi" indicates a fundamental unwillingness to discuss the subject without prejudice. Just because it's an "acceptable" invocation of Godwin doesn't mean it isn't invoking Godwin.

[Akura]

Stepdad dragged me off to DSS on very short notice, just to drop off some paperwork for me and my mom. I told him I didn't have to physically be there to do it, because otherwise, why I be dropping off my mom's(an entirely seperate case) as well? I try telling him this, and he doesn't listen. And of course, he has to bring all four of the dogs there, and of course, he gets halfway there before deciding to let them out for a few minutes. He also "suddenly remembered" after that he had his own paperwork to drop off, but decided not to go back.

The entire trip there, he's going on about "our" poverty situation and how I have to help the "household"(just him, since both me and my mom have paying jobs while he just sits around all day bitching about stuff) and how we don't even have money to eat. He then manages to be a complete hypocrite when he criticizes me about buying the store-brand macaroni and cheese because Dr. Oz(a quack if I ever saw one) told him that it contains Yellow #5, which is petroleum-based(just what isn't nowadays?) and WILL KILL YOU and that I should buy the more expensive name brand.

Getting there, it's absolutely crowded. I spend an entire hour waiting on line, with the only thing happening is some loudmouth woman in front of me getting into an argument with a security guard, being told to leave, refusing, then leaving when the cops were called, with four squad cars showing up. Interestingly, the line began moving much faster after that. I get to the window, and first I find that my mother didn't even sign hers, and that I didn't really need to come there to drop it off in the first place.

The few days before that, I was really annoyed at something, but not sure why. It seems I have precognitive rage. I get pissed at something before it happens.

[scrdest]

Stepdad dragged me off to DSS on very short notice, just to drop off some paperwork for me and my mom. I told him I didn't have to physically be there to do it, because otherwise, why I be dropping off my mom's(an entirely seperate case) as well? I try telling him this, and he doesn't listen. And of course, he has to bring all four of the dogs there, and of course, he gets halfway there before deciding to let them out for a few minutes. He also "suddenly remembered" after that he had his own paperwork to drop off, but decided not to go back.

The entire trip there, he's going on about "our" poverty situation and how I have to help the "household"(just him, since both me and my mom have paying jobs while he just sits around all day bitching about stuff) and how we don't even have money to eat. He then manages to be a complete hypocrite when he criticizes me about buying the store-brand macaroni and cheese because Dr. Oz(a quack if I ever saw one) told him that it contains Yellow #5, which is petroleum-based(just what isn't nowadays?) and WILL KILL YOU and that I should buy the more expensive name brand.

Getting there, it's absolutely crowded. I spend an entire hour waiting on line, with the only thing happening is some loudmouth woman in front of me getting into an argument with a security guard, being told to leave, refusing, then leaving when the cops were called, with four squad cars showing up. Interestingly, the line began moving much faster after that. I get to the window, and first I find that my mother didn't even sign hers, and that I didn't really need to come there to drop it off in the first place.

The few days before that, I was really annoyed at something, but not sure why. It seems I have precognitive rage. I get pissed at something before it happens.

Your stepdad needs to meet BlackFlyme's. Hopefully the douchebagium will reach critical mass and explode.

[Skyrunner]

Or they"ll just synergize with each other and become friends! D:

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Re: English

I don't care. Just spell it how you see it in the dictionary. If the dictionary-writers change the spelling to match what people use, it means the great shivering, sweating mass of people failed to learn how to spell correctly. The population failed so badly that they changed a part of their language.

Imagine if everyone failed Algebra so badly schools decided to just change the textbooks to match whatever most people did.

Language changed so much because books were rare, people were isolated and illiterate, and the literate people were reading books written by the barely-literate. These people had beautiful things to say but they were bad at writing them.

Or should I say, "Thees foulk wer fild up of grete powetree, laik teers weld up frum ayyes a-sarrow, yet alas eech hande cud mark a paeg with naut but jibrish."