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Re: How logical should language be?
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 9:44 am
by Philosophy Explorer
vegetariantaxidermy wrote: βFri Mar 30, 2018 8:16 am
What does that have to do with anything? By the way--aeroplane has beauty. 'Airplane' is fucking ugly. The words aero and air are not interchangeable. They have subtly different meanings. Do you say 'airdynamics'? 'Airnautical'. I hated Hemingway anyway. Always killing something or other. Trying to prove how 'manly' he was, due to the fact that he had a famously minute penis.
It's only your idiot friend who's quibbling about the number of letters in words. Take it up with him.
Ofc there are some idiots who'll believe in the archaic prefix: aero. People like that are entitled to their stubbornly, stupid opinions as they like the sound of it (just like the British like the sound of petroleum).
PhilX

Re: How logical should language be?
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 9:53 am
by vegetariantaxidermy
You must look like an even bigger idiot when you spray airsol in your face instead of the fly.
Re: How logical should language be?
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:04 am
by vegetariantaxidermy
re 'aluminium'.
''This name did catch on: while the -um spelling was occasionally used in Britain, the American scientific language used -ium from the start. Most scientists used -ium throughout the world in the 19th century;it still remains the standard in most other languages. In 1828, American lexicographer Noah Webster used exclusively the aluminum spelling in his American Dictionary of the English Language. In the 1830s, the -um spelling started to gain usage in the United States; by the 1860s, it had become the more common spelling there outside science.
I might have guessed. That bloody prik Noah Webster again and his wretched MikDikshinree.
Re: How logical should language be?
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:05 am
by Philosophy Explorer
vegetariantaxidermy wrote: βFri Mar 30, 2018 9:53 am
You must look like an even bigger idiot when you spray airsol in your face instead of the fly.
Can't look like you (I see you're trying to coin a new word, but some of you British do like the sound of the extra o in aerosol).
PhilX

Re: How logical should language be?
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:07 am
by vegetariantaxidermy
Philosophy Explorer wrote: βFri Mar 30, 2018 10:05 am
vegetariantaxidermy wrote: βFri Mar 30, 2018 9:53 am
You must look like an even bigger idiot when you spray airsol in your face instead of the fly.
Can't look like you (I see you're trying to coin a new word, but some of you British do like the sound of the extra o in aerosol).
PhilX
It's just a shame that Wikipedia is probably beyond your reading capabilities.
Re: How logical should language be?
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:12 am
by Philosophy Explorer
vegetariantaxidermy wrote: βFri Mar 30, 2018 10:04 am
re 'aluminium'.
''This name did catch on: while the -um spelling was occasionally used in Britain,
the American scientific language used -ium from the start. Most scientists used -ium throughout the world in the 19th century;it still remains the standard in most other languages. In 1828, American lexicographer Noah Webster used exclusively the aluminum spelling in his American Dictionary of the English Language. In the 1830s, the -um spelling started to gain usage in the United States; by the 1860s, it had become the more common spelling there outside science.
I might have guessed. That bloody prik Noah Webster again and his wretched MikDikshinree.
Not with the word aluminum (read your Oxford Dictionary). Btw there's no such thing as a McDictionary except in people's fanciful minds (urban slang).
PhilX

Re: How logical should language be?
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:13 am
by vegetariantaxidermy
What the fuck are you on about now?
Re: How logical should language be?
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:13 am
by Philosophy Explorer
vegetariantaxidermy wrote: βFri Mar 30, 2018 10:07 am
Philosophy Explorer wrote: βFri Mar 30, 2018 10:05 am
vegetariantaxidermy wrote: βFri Mar 30, 2018 9:53 am
You must look like an even bigger idiot when you spray airsol in your face instead of the fly.
Can't look like you (I see you're trying to coin a new word, but some of you British do like the sound of the extra o in aerosol).
PhilX
It's just a shame that Wikipedia is probably beyond your reading capabilities.
With a VT, everything is a probably.
PhilX

Re: How logical should language be?
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:16 am
by vegetariantaxidermy
Philosophy Explorer wrote: βFri Mar 30, 2018 10:05 am
vegetariantaxidermy wrote: βFri Mar 30, 2018 9:53 am
You must look like an even bigger idiot when you spray airsol in your face instead of the fly.
Can't look like you (I see you're trying to coin a new word, but some of you British do like the sound of the extra o in aerosol).
PhilX
So back to British then. I thought I was Australian.
Re: How logical should language be?
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:20 am
by Philosophy Explorer
vegetariantaxidermy wrote: βFri Mar 30, 2018 10:16 am
Philosophy Explorer wrote: βFri Mar 30, 2018 10:05 am
vegetariantaxidermy wrote: βFri Mar 30, 2018 9:53 am
You must look like an even bigger idiot when you spray airsol in your face instead of the fly.
Can't look like you (I see you're trying to coin a new word, but some of you British do like the sound of the extra o in aerosol).
PhilX
So back to British then. I thought I was Australian.
Nobody gives a flying fuck who or what you are.
PhilX

Re: How logical should language be?
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:29 am
by vegetariantaxidermy
That's funny, since you haven't stopped going on about it in all the years I've posted. How do you even function? Can you work out how to wipe your own arse, or do you have to get your dog to lick it?
Re: How logical should language be?
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:32 am
by Philosophy Explorer
vegetariantaxidermy wrote: βFri Mar 30, 2018 10:29 am
That's funny, since you haven't stopped going on about it in all the years I've posted. How do you even function? Can you work out how to wipe your own arse, or do you have to get your dog to lick it?
Even if you were my dog, I wouldn't let you touch it.
PhilX

"what do the trolls gain from getting fed?"
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 3:18 pm
by henry quirk
Attention, and the small, cold, pleasure of rilin' up people.
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 3:30 pm
by henry quirk
"Why is it always the Americans on here who don't understand even the most logical and easily-understood points?"
Mebbe those points aren't as logical or as easily-understood as you think.
Is it posssible those points are nonsensical and impossible to understand?
#
"Are they really as stupid as they seem, or is it something to do with culture and being brought up to believe that their country is beyond reproach in everything?"
Well, me: I'm dumb as a brick.
America: yeah, she ain't pure, but only an idiot burns down his own house cuz the wallpaper is ugly and the plumbing knocks. We fix what we can and live with the rest.
Can't see what concern of yours it is to begin with. I doubt America or Americans have injured you directly and you certainly don't come across as an empathetic type (overly concerned about others, especially strangers), so: what exactly is your beef with America and Americans?
Re: How logical should language be?
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 3:31 pm
by henry quirk