Why is it...

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

..."sergeant" and not "sargeant"?

Shouldn't privates and corporals be calling their drill instructor "Serge" instead of "Sarge"?

WHY THE DUCK DOES THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LOVE TO BREAK MY BALLS???

 

[whisky]

Thats nothing when you consider how the british pronounce lieutenant.

 

[Gagh]

Shouldn't privates and corporals be calling their drill instructor "Serge" instead of "Sarge"?

Ooooh, no Ack-weeeeeell! We cannot beeeee haveeeeen that!

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

My head hurts.

 

[Dr Dave]

pillzlol?

 

[Archibald Nixon]

Colonel or Kernel?

A cousin of mine teaches ESL. Most folks have no idea just how much the language seems deliberately tailored to fuck with people's heads.

 

[Cassie]

WHY IS LIVE AND LIVE SPELLED THE SAME WAY?

 

[Fuddlemiff]

Thats nothing when you consider how the british pronounce lieutenant.

The earlier history of the pronunciation is unclear; Middle English spellings included both forms like lutenand and lyeutenaunt suggesting the /lju-/ pronunciation and those like leeftenant and luftenand suggesting /lɛf-/. The hypothesis that the labial-terminated initial syllable arose as a spelling pronunciation conflating vocalic and consonantal v (the letters u and v were not distinguished before the eighteenth century) is rejected by the Oxford English Dictionary as "not [in] accord with the facts". The rare Old French variant spelling luef for Modern French lieu "place", on the other hand, supports the suggestion that the final /w/ of the Old French word was in certain environments apprehended as a /f/ /v/. The development of the αυ and ευ diphthongs in the Greek language, pronounced /av/ and /ɛv/, respectively, in Modern Greek, may lend plausibility to this explanation.

See? Couldn't be simpler, really.

 

[curiousa2z]

A cousin of mine teaches ESL. Most folks have no idea just how much the language seems deliberately tailored to fuck with people's heads.

YES!

mwahahahahahaha.

 

[curiousa2z]

<Colonel or Kernel?>
it's funny cos in French it's pronounced the way it's spelt; it's only in English that it becomes corny.

proof again of the innate evil in the English language!

 

[Cassie]

COLONEL SANDERS AGREES!

 

[CaptainWacky]

I hate nigers.

 

[Dr Dave]

Do you hate mice?

 

[CaptainWacky]

I'm not too fond of them.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Language is funny.

 

[curiousa2z]

do you mean funny as in "LOL" or funny as in "odd"?

just trying to clarify things (but not the butter).

 

[Big Dick McGee]

Language unites us all as God's children.

 

[Cassie]

WWIII TO BE FOUGHT OVER THE SUPERFLUOUS USE OF THE LETTER U?

 

[Dr Dave]

Let us hope this dark day never comes.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Cassie to tickle Michael Jackson for peace?