Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Spell Check Dictionary

On Thu, 22 May 2014, anne-ology wrote:

>       yes, there are homonyms in the English language -
>            which allows for puns;
>         a concept which many languages do not understand, yet adds humour
> to others  ;-)
>
>       I've always enjoyed the pun; still do.
>
>       Now, for a bit of English grammar history:
>          it's derived from the Latin & Greek - as were the Romantic &
> Germanic languages;

the Germanic languages were not derived from Latin and Greek, they are 
a separate branch of Indo-European. however Germanic languages were 
also influenced by Latin and then French as English was.

in German people (at least of a certain generation) sometimes say a 
word derived from Latin and add "in German" - the Latinate word sounds 
a bit fancy, the German near-equivalent sounds more 'down-to-earth'.

but they don't seem to have our category of 'four-letter words which, 
btw, are sometimes anglo-saxon (Germanic) words like 'ficken' or 
'scheisse'. (there is one word my partner forbids me to say though.)

anyway, yes, language is fun. back to our regularly scheduled OT.

F.

>             spelling was not initially formalized due to this
> conglomeration, so the idea of a dictionary came about;
>             Samuel Johnson wrote his formal dictionary;
>             then in the 19C, things were still informal, so the idea for
> the OxfordEnglishDictionary was formed;
>             then Daniel Webster decided to write his dictionary excluding
> the niceties in spelling of the OED because he wanted to eliminate 'the
> British' from the language  ;-)
>
>       BTW - Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), & others, had some
> interesting bits re. this continual squabble between the British & the
> States;
>           his Jabberwocky is a gem of a poem.
>
>       Just a bit of trivia for y'all  ;-)
>
>
>
> From: Mark LaPierre <marklapier@aol.com>
> Date: Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Spell Check Dictionary
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
>
>
> English sucks as a language anyway.  It's a conglomeration of words
> grafted on from many other real languages that mostly still adhere to
> the rules of the original language.  The result is that English has no
> consistent rules without the ever present, "Except", word.  This
> paragraph contains one of the prime examples.  I almost all cases adding
> apostrophe "s" on the end of a word denotes ownership, i.e. Tom's car,
> but to indicate ownership with the word it the 's' is added without the
> apostrophe.  Of course its could also indicate multiple quantities of its.
>
> Then there are words like disgruntled.  Has anyone ever been gruntled?
>
> Then too as in also, two as in one more then one, and to as in where you
> are going.  There's lead as in the heavy metal, lead as in being shown
> the way, lead as in showing the way.
>
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