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  • #16
    Originally posted by Trajanus
    How the hell do you know it's the largest language.. there's about 5000 languages...
    Go read, The Story of English. Our language freely borrows words from every language, it's always growing, unlike certain European languages that legislate out "contaminating" foreign words. We are also constantly evolving our language. No other language comes close to the number of words the English.

    Granted, most of us will never know all the words in English, and many words are words with multiple meanings, I'm sure. Heck, most of are limited to a vocabulary of a mere 500 words, an only use about 200 regularly.

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    • #17
      in kentucky, "jeet" is apparantly an english sentence.
      Quod Me Nutrit Me Destruit

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      • #18
        I actually found English to be a very easy language to learn.
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        • #19
          go learn finnish, we rule at strange grammar

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Comrade Chris
            we rule
            True.
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            • #21
              Well I remember someone telling me an interesting one that there is a town in the south called 'Brough' and it is pronounced 'Broom' or something. Us northerners are more sensible. We have a town near here called 'Brough' and it is pronounced 'Bruff' which is somewhat more obvious...

              And a question? How do you pronounce the Cambridgeshire village of Godmanchester?
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              • #22
                Actually, I think Spanish has more words than English.
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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Provost Harrison

                  And a question? How do you pronounce the Cambridgeshire village of Godmanchester?
                  hmmmmm ...... Gomster?

                  And on behalf of all the people who do their shopping in Oxford during the summer I would like to appeal to all foreign tourists to please turn their maps the right way up and find their own way to Magdalen Bridge.
                  It's very easy to find and very hard to pronounce so asking for directions there makes you look doubly silly.
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                  • #24
                    Bear in mind that Magdalen Bridge isn't far from Bicester
                    Speaking of Erith:

                    "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                    • #25
                      was Gomster right?
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                      • #26
                        English doesn't have a tenth of the amount of words that Finnish has... if you count all the conjugations, that is .
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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Paul Hanson
                          Actually, I think Spanish has more words than English.
                          Spanish only has 200,000 words, 40% of English.
                          Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by Ari Rahikkala
                            English doesn't have a tenth of the amount of words that Finnish has... if you count all the conjugations, that is .
                            Conjugations don't count.
                            Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
                              was Gomster right?
                              I am not sure, it is either that or godmanster...but whatever it is, it is silly.
                              Speaking of Erith:

                              "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                              • #30
                                Why does the Oxford college Magdalene possess an extra e to it's Cambridge equivalent, Magdalen?
                                Concrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
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