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So you're all for getting rid of complicated spellings originating from French but convoluted spellings of Germanic origins are okay? I see where you're coming from, but strange spellings don't make English any less Germanic a language.
Not really. The truth is I'm something of a linguistic purist. I don't see the non-Germanic words as an essential part of English's vocabulary. I don't see any reason to prefer putting the U in words such as "honor," because such a thing only makes English closer to French, and not any closer to Old English or any closer to English's Germanic roots. But "borough," for example, with its -ugh ending, looks a lot more Germanic than "boro." So in such cases, I do prefer the more "convoluted" spelling.
I always thought it would be nice if English adopted a more logical spelling system. Because, without context, you have no idea how to pronounce things like ough, and the long e sound can be spelled e, ea, ee, ie, i, or y, which seems ridiculous.
Hmm, in a drunken state, I just remembered today in the ten year anniversary of the date I told my freshman year (of high school) crush I had a thing for him (over AIM... he had moved to a new school that summer). He didn't take it too well, but it also didn't totally surprise him.
Hmm, in a drunken state, I just remembered today in the ten year anniversary of the date I told my freshman year (of high school) crush I had a thing for him (over AIM... he had moved to a new school that summer). He didn't take it too well, but it also didn't totally surprise him.
Man, you had more balls than me in ninth grade.....I didn't really tell a crush I liked them until the summer between tenth and eleventh grade. We ended dating for like two or three weeks.
Man, you had more balls than me in ninth grade.....I didn't really tell a crush I liked them until the summer between tenth and eleventh grade. We ended dating for like two or three weeks.
He was my ninth grade crush. I was in tenth grade by that time. He was only in my school that one year, my freshman year of high school. We kind of ended up friends because initially he had no one else to talk to. He had moved here from North Carlina. Cute Southern accent and everything. I seldom think about him anymore, but oddly enough, he appeared in a dream of mine just a few days ago.
Having some vodka now mixed with Wild Cherry Diet Pepsi.
Last Oktoberfest was pretty cool... went to NYC and met up for the first time with a friend I'd long known (since 2006) on the internet from Illinois. He was in NYC for job training. That was the first weekend of October. We wandered around NYC a bit and found an Oktoberfest thing that was going on.
I am tempted to go to Oktoberfest this weekend. One beer probably wouldn't hurt.
Are you sure you'll only have one beer?
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