I'll never fully understand the English language

[mikejet]

English is my first language too.

This is an actual valid sentence:

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo...uffalo_buffalo

WTF ENGLISH

[Sagacious Koreo]

Makes sense to me after reading that. Although I highly doubt anyone would ever use that statement in real life so...

English is very confusing though.

[pentatonic]

Wonder what the guy had in his pipe the day he came up with that ?

[My_Two_Cents]

Dude, you've got waaaaaaay too much f'in time on your hands!

[Septimus Prime]

That had had had had had had had had had had had a profound effect on me.

[Porkchop Express]

It's nice to know that if I ever count buffalo, I'll be grammatically correct.

[MaCruz]

nah mean naw mean nawed mean

[MyBlu-rayBrotherEd]

Originally Posted by MaCruz

nah mean naw mean nawed mean

[Batman1980]

I still find it odd some people consider English the hardest language to learn, I consider American English to be a complete butchery of the language it's based on.

[Chordata]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Stormcrow

I still find it odd some people consider English the hardest language to learn, I consider American English to be a complete butchery of the language it's based on.

All due to the melting pot that was and is the U.S.

[Septimus Prime]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Stormcrow

I still find it odd some people consider English the hardest language to learn, I consider American English to be a complete butchery of the language it's based on.

Nice comma splice there, bro.

I think English is easy to learn but extremely difficult to master, due to its complicated rules and esoteric exceptions.

[JJ]

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

[mikejet]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Stormcrow

I still find it odd some people consider English the hardest language to learn, I consider American English to be a complete butchery of the language it's based on.

Compared to Spanish where things are phonetic and straight forward English can be rather complicated.

Originally Posted by Septimus Prime

Nice comma splice there, bro.

I think English is easy to learn but extremely difficult to master, due to its complicated rules and esoteric exceptions.

I think English is an easy language to speak but harder to write with.

[CYMBOL]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Stormcrow

I still find it odd some people consider English the hardest language to learn, I consider American English to be a complete butchery of the language it's based on.

Originally Posted by O_V_N

All due to the melting pot that was and is the U.S.

Exactly - depending on where you go, the English language can be spoken quite differently. Eastern, Western, Southern, Mid-West, Northern, North East, etc. - add in accents, mix in cultures and race - it's amazing will all understand each other sometimes.

I've been around some people with such think Boston (and some Southern) accents that I couldn't make out some of their words and had to ask them to repeat it.

I find Korean very difficult to pronounce.

One of my favorite experiences was when I was in Iraq. Obviously, everyone was trying to teach each other the languages. There was a Texas contractor who worked directly with an Iraqi. I almost lost it when the Iraqi spoke in english (after learning it from the contractor) and he spoke it with a thick Southern accent.

[mikejet]

The one language I've always wanted to learn was Latin. But nobody uses it anymore

[MyBlu-rayBrotherEd]

Our grammar is different than many other languages I think. Also, we have many words that sound the same, but have different meanings which would be confusing. I learned German in high school, and would love to learn some other languages. Sign language would also be very cool to learn.

[My_Two_Cents]

Originally Posted by JJxiv1215

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Opips2, is that you?

[jsteinhauer]

Originally Posted by CYMBOL

Exactly - depending on where you go, the English language can be spoken quite differently. Eastern, Western, Southern, Mid-West, Northern, North East, etc. - add in accents, mix in cultures and race - it's amazing will all understand each other sometimes.

I've been around some people with such think Boston (and some Southern) accents that I couldn't make out some of their words and had to ask them to repeat it.

I find Korean very difficult to pronounce.

One of my favorite experiences was when I was in Iraq. Obviously, everyone was trying to teach each other the languages. There was a Texas contractor who worked directly with an Iraqi. I almost lost it when the Iraqi spoke in english (after learning it from the contractor) and he spoke it with a thick Southern accent.

For certain.

People in other parts of the country can not tell Midwest dialects apart, either. Wisconsin is different from Minnesota is different from Missouri is different from Ohio is different from Lower Michigan is different from Upper Michigan. When I first moved to Alabama in 1999 some mistook me for a New Yorker. I grew up in Metro Detroit (Scream 4 is being filmed in my hometown as we speak).

A friend I trained with in Birmingham, Alabama is from Panama. He has been fluent in North American English for as long as I've known him. He described coming to interview in Birmingham and taking a taxi from the airport and being immediately terrified that he could never succeed in the US, because he could not understand the local accent of the cab driver. No worries, though. Even I was often disturbed by those who decided to speak to me in elevators leaving me only to nod and smile, because I could not understand their Alabama country dialect. Parts of Louisiana are like a different country. Birmingham is also where I had a similar experience to yours in Iraq. The first Asian person I met there (a Vietnamese or Laotian woman) spoke like a native. A Chinese guy I trained with was in a hurry to finish up and move away, because he did not want his Chinese boys to have southern accents.

It's a funny thing what part of the dialect you take with you when you move around the country. People in the Detroit area find humor in Canadaspeak, specifically "eh!" But after I moved away, I noticed my family (and myself) using "eh" all the time. I spend time in Idaho in the early '90s, and when out running by the river, passing individuals would often greet with "Howdy!" I still use that one. And I definitely brought "Y'all" with me from The South.

[JJ]

Originally Posted by Ricshoe

Opips2, is that you?

I wonder what Opi's up to.