Comments on The Silent Number: I am capitalized and You are not?

i absolutely love the poem, and it's so true!

2010-04-21T21:21:50.164-04:00

i absolutely love the poem, and it's so true!

TESTICLE

2010-04-02T04:16:40.335-04:00

TESTICLE

There are no apostrophes in plural words, so using...

2009-11-21T12:54:40.820-05:00

There are no apostrophes in plural words, so using one in "i's" is incorrect. (What you are saying is "I is" and that is also wrong.) If you correctly leave out the apostrophe, your word will look like "is", but if you capitalize the word "I" first and then place the s, it tells people you me the plural of the word "I". And please, do ot use the word "I's" as a possessive noun, because the word does not exist. The correct word is "my". Example: the party was at John and I's house. NO!!!!

Dumbass Americans. First you bastardise our langua...

2009-11-03T05:24:30.182-05:00

Dumbass Americans. First you bastardise our language, then you blame us for it?

Self-righteousness means judgment against another ...

2009-08-04T10:01:01.633-04:00

Self-righteousness means judgment against another is based on one's own biases instead of an independent source. Saying I is self-righteous is a bit of the old associative reasoning. Kneejerk.

I is capitalized because in the real world no yOU can exist unless that yOU has an I for it to refer to. You is I's shadow for the same reason that non existent candles don't burn and non-existent cars can't be pimped.

Capitalizing you is a fantasy of mechanical fundamentalists who think they're dynamists.

Esperanto has words like malbuengusto. Give me a friggin break. What in the name of doubleplus ungood Newspeak is that?

Let's learn Lojban, people. Lojban definitely help...

2009-07-18T10:28:55.163-04:00

Let's learn Lojban, people. Lojban definitely helped me get over my beef with the quirks of the English language.

+1 to sikon. Good communication skillz are import...

2009-07-16T21:34:23.644-04:00

+1 to sikon.

Good communication skillz are important.

Why do people nowadays think they can break Englis...

2009-07-16T21:26:36.871-04:00

Why do people nowadays think they can break English grammar for "political" reasons and get away with it?

This is why no one has tried to "fix" the English ...

2009-07-16T10:44:01.221-04:00

This is why no one has tried to "fix" the English language as you suggest.

Take these two lines of logic:
"If writers write, how come fingers don't fing."
"Why didn't the preacher praught."

Writers write, and Preachers preach. That's why preachers don't "praught".

"English is stupid..." Really, with all of the ed...

2009-07-15T23:54:00.125-04:00

"English is stupid..."

Really, with all of the education going on the planet recently about not being insulting to groups of people, you make a statement like that?

"Swahili is stupid..." "Spanish is stupid..." "Chinese is stupid..." No, no, no and to yours no as well. Insulting peoples culture, language, religions, genders, lifestyles, is simply not acceptable.

Please thing next time before you post insulting commentary.

I Take It You Already Know... Of tough and bough ...

2009-07-15T21:49:39.121-04:00

I Take It You Already Know...

Of tough and bough and cough and dough.
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps.
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead - it's said like bed, not bead.
For goodness sake, don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat.
They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.
A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear for pear and bear.
And then there's dose and rose and loose -
Just look them up - and goose and choose.
And cork and work and card and ward.
And font and front and word and sword.
And do and go, then thwart and cart.
Come, come, I've hardly made a start.
A dreadful language? Man alive.
I'd mastered it when I was five!
-Anonymous

I always thought "I" was capitalized because it wa...

2009-07-15T18:27:09.533-04:00

I always thought "I" was capitalized because it was one letter long. After all, we don't capitalize me, myself, mine, and so on (unlike You in some languages).

Good point, never thought about it. But i also con...

2009-07-15T17:15:30.857-04:00

Good point, never thought about it.
But i also consider writing, or speaking in E-prime.

It really eliminates a lot of misinterpretation.
Got introduced to this by Robert Anton Wilson. It just makes sense to me.

http://www.rawilson.com/quantum.html

Bah that poem is American English, not English at ...

2009-07-15T16:29:26.376-04:00

Bah that poem is American English, not English at all. Poncy rotten American English.

In England we park on parking spaces, we drive on roads. Their not called French Fries but Chips.

It's a Phone Box not a phone booth and I've never heard anyone "Why do people recite at a play" which just sounds silly. Perhaps they recite a play, but not _at_ it since it's not a location.

Most of the weirdness is in the derivations, the way plurals work depend on the language the word was taken from and most confusing words are because of convergence for instance Hamburger comes from the German city of Hamburg, not the meat.

Esperanto isn't culturally neutral nor is it logic...

2009-07-15T16:24:43.256-04:00

Esperanto isn't culturally neutral nor is it logical.

> Then again, if you want to learn a > language th...

2009-07-15T16:15:08.296-04:00

> Then again, if you want to learn a
> language that is completely logical,
> there's always lojban.

Few people speak Lojban. More speak Esperanto. Did you try studying Esperanto? (http://www.lernu.net)

Malmultaj homoj parolas Loĵabanon. Pliaj parolas Esperanton. Ĉu vi provis studi Esperanton? (http://www.lernu.net)

.iku'i mi jbobau ciska srera .i sa do ca glibau ci...

2009-07-15T16:01:44.277-04:00

.iku'i mi jbobau ciska srera .i sa do ca glibau ciska srera li'o

bebna .i la lojban bangu ko .i do glibau ciska ca ...

2009-07-15T15:42:55.983-04:00

bebna .i la lojban bangu ko .i do glibau ciska ca srera