tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572501698854836939.post5733319768673406719..comments2024-03-26T06:07:35.453+01:00Comments on Kalinago English: English: time 4 a revamp?KALINAGO ENGLISHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15202016406865561740noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572501698854836939.post-78937155305830595602012-08-05T18:56:47.670+02:002012-08-05T18:56:47.670+02:00I have one small change I'd like to make to th...I have one small change I'd like to make to the English language (although I love the author's suggestion about making all the words ending in -ed phonetic). Many of the world's major languages drop the pronoun after it becomes understand who or what the subject is. In English, we continue to use the pronoun over and over. Let's join the rest of the world and start dropping our pronouns!ESL in Houstonhttp://englishlessons-houston.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572501698854836939.post-45552939213485440252012-05-19T13:50:50.784+02:002012-05-19T13:50:50.784+02:00Interesting thoughts!
I always imagined the langua...Interesting thoughts!<br />I always imagined the language developed naturally and the dictionarys just followed up - not the other way around.<br /><br />But I do agree with you on one point, just because a few have failed we shouldn't give up!Fred Henkehttp://www.native-translator.de/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572501698854836939.post-20900650053262334882012-03-07T19:22:28.552+01:002012-03-07T19:22:28.552+01:00Personally, I. Ink it's a brilliant idea.. How...Personally, I. Ink it's a brilliant idea.. However, I considering it doesn't really work with a language like Germany, and where they have a tradition in setting the language, and I am don't have much hope.<br />On the other hand, I with the powers that be online, die perhaps we are already seeing a change and simplication in English.<br />Example at hand- writing on tablets!Illya Arnethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03861197769628094809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572501698854836939.post-14675020280856083272012-03-04T22:26:35.630+01:002012-03-04T22:26:35.630+01:00Don’t you think it would be rather difficult to se...Don’t you think it would be rather difficult to set up a governing body (like l'Academie Francaise for French) for a language that is not confined to one country and whose reach, as you say, extends across the globe. Or was it meant to be tongue-in-cheek? :)<br />LEOLeohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16077987567636970527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572501698854836939.post-55676761589988510842012-02-13T12:35:32.873+01:002012-02-13T12:35:32.873+01:00Hmmm, just because one or two or ten or twenty-fiv...Hmmm, just because one or two or ten or twenty-five people fail at something isn't a reason to stop trying, generally :-).<br /><br />I should clarify, I don't see the need for it to be government directed per se, when I refer to a "governing body," this could be (would more likely to be successful) if made up of the artists you mention... and now that today English is so global, I'd fight for it to be made up one person from every nation in the world.<br /><br />Personally I reckon we're heading for Babbel, if we don't and if we don't clean it up (one war, one massive disease will end all that hard work) ...and I'm just not sure why we continue to hang on to so many archaic structures - nostalgia?KALINAGO ENGLISHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15202016406865561740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572501698854836939.post-11240906371392142712012-02-13T02:03:38.728+01:002012-02-13T02:03:38.728+01:00This natural instinct to "reform" and &q...This natural instinct to "reform" and "correct" English has a long, seldom successful history. If Noah Webster failed and the Oxford English Dictionary have dramatically tilted to description from prescription, why should we embark on that quixotic journey? <br /><br />Instead of selecting and empowering some government agency to watch our language, I'd rather celebrate the creativity of artists, welcome slang, and elevate the language. As far as the need for gender pronoun, the easier - and most popular solution is just to make those sentence plural. While offending the grammar purists (who seldom welcome language changes or reforms anyway), American politicians and media celebrities have long mainstreamed its use. As the American poet and folklorist Carl Sandburg noted, "slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work." I'd suggest that we could say the same about global English today.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11240881052851959209noreply@blogger.com