FabSwingers.com forum: The English

By *ea monkey OP Man
34 weeks ago

Manchester (he/him)

Specifically the English language. The more I think about it the more I realise that its creation and evolution is hilarious. Some words are directly contrary to their meanings;

Phonetic- isn’t

Monosyllabic- has five

Thesaurus- has no synonym

Dyslexic- so difficult to spell

… discuss

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By *eroLondonMan
34 weeks ago

Mayfair

Bumping this for the spectacular vernacular, the iridescent idioms that bring colour to our phonetics, the sexy semantics and the sexual lexical, the wordsmiths and the etymologies. Without words woo'ing would be far less exciting.

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By *ea monkey OP Man
34 weeks ago

Manchester (he/him)

"Bumping this for the spectacular vernacular, the iridescent idioms that bring colour to our phonetics, the sexy semantics and the sexual lexical, the wordsmiths and the etymologies. Without words woo'ing would be far less exciting."

Maybe the title was a bit misleading

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By *EAT..85Woman
34 weeks ago

Nottingham

Aw man. I thought you were going to be talking about the BBC series The English. Great series.

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By *avinaTVTV/TS
34 weeks ago

Transsexual Transylvania

Yairss, yairss... I spikka the English...

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By (user no longer on site)
34 weeks ago

The fear of long words is called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

I mean, seriously lol.

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By *r Mrs FuckableCouple
34 weeks ago

Stoke

Too much brain work there for a Monday, I've all on wondering what to have for my tea!

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By *ea monkey OP Man
34 weeks ago

Manchester (he/him)

"The fear of long words is called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

I mean, seriously lol."

See? Not without a sense of humour

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By *ncubus666Man
34 weeks ago

Buntingford

What the British say

What the British mean

What others understand

I hear what you say

I disagree and do not want to discuss it further

He accepts my point of view

With the greatest respect...

I think you are an idiot

He is listening to me

That's not bad

That's good

That's poor

That is a very brave proposal

You are insane

He thinks I have courage

Quite good

A bit disappointing

Quite good

I would suggest...

Do it or be prepared to justify yourself

Think about the idea, but do what you like

Oh, incidentally/ by the way

The primary purpose of our discussion is...

That is not very important

I was a bit disappointed that

I am annoyed that

It doesn't really matter

Very interesting

That is clearly nonsense

They are impressed

I'll bear it in mind

I've forgotten it already

They will probably do it

I'm sure it's my fault

It's your fault

Why do they think it was their fault?

You must come for dinner

It's not an invitation, I'm just being polite

I will get an invitation soon

I almost agree

I don't agree at all

He's not far from agreement

I only have a few minor comments

Please re-write completely

He has found a few typos

Could we consider some other options

I don't like your idea

They have not yet decided

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By *ncubus666Man
34 weeks ago

Buntingford

Unfortunately couldn’t copy the formatting. It should be three columns so each group of 3 lines equals one column.

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By (user no longer on site)
34 weeks ago

"Unfortunately couldn’t copy the formatting. It should be three columns so each group of 3 lines equals one column. "

If you use a full stop, it should add a proper break in the paragraph.

Kinda

This

These old forums all have the same issue.

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By *elix SightedMan
34 weeks ago

Cloud 8

"The fear of long words is called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

I mean, seriously lol."

Beat me to it! And apparently it’s the second longest word in the English language. What sadistic bastard dreamed that up?!

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By *EAT..85Woman
34 weeks ago

Nottingham

"The fear of long words is called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

I mean, seriously lol.

Beat me to it! And apparently it’s the second longest word in the English language. What sadistic bastard dreamed that up?!"

I bet they'd be a laugh to share a pint with!

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By (user no longer on site)
34 weeks ago

"The fear of long words is called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

I mean, seriously lol.

Beat me to it! And apparently it’s the second longest word in the English language. What sadistic bastard dreamed that up?!"

Mad isn't it? The poor bastards can't even say what they have, because it freaks them out!

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By *emorefridaCouple
34 weeks ago

La la land

So after decades of existence, I got asked why is there a different Welsh word for cold temperature and cold the illness but in English it's the same. Good point was my reply English is weird as.

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By *ags73Man
34 weeks ago

glasgow-ish

I list it as second language on forms.

You get asked ‘English?’ at some places in Europe, ‘no, but I speak a little.’

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By *ea monkey OP Man
34 weeks ago

Manchester (he/him)

"So after decades of existence, I got asked why is there a different Welsh word for cold temperature and cold the illness but in English it's the same. Good point was my reply English is weird as. "

There are so many contronyms in the English language, it’s crazy! So much of the language is about context and syntax

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