Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: English is the Best Language

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-25-2007, 08:38 PM:

No other language comes close to being as awesome as English is. Would I speak a language that was only second best or worse? No way! English wins.

Posted by Ian Price (Member # 14) on 07-25-2007, 09:25 PM:

Je ne parle pas Frances!

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-25-2007, 09:56 PM:

No you don't. That is quite clear.

Posted by Steven J Hart (Member # 2340) on 07-25-2007, 10:43 PM:

I'm quite partial to Klingon, would have replied in Klingon, but its not yet universal.
Steve (QaQtaHghach)

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-25-2007, 10:57 PM:

¡Apenas hablo apenas inglés!

¡No hablo español, Japaneese, o francés!

Posted by Damien Taylor (Member # 4255) on 07-25-2007, 11:39 PM:

You're not even trying to hide the fact your just trolling anymore Joe, I'm disappointed. Someone should take the bait soon though.

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 07-26-2007, 12:10 AM:

ジョーの馬鹿！変な下品外人！
Joe no baka! Henna gehin gaijin!
英語より日本語！日本語が最高！
Eigo yori Nihongo! Nihongo ga saikou!

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-26-2007, 12:10 AM:

quote: Damien Taylor
You're not even trying to hide the fact your just trolling anymore Joe, I'm disappointed. Someone should take the bait soon though.

You just did.

Paul, the Japanese have difficulty ending words on a consonant (phonetically), it seems. Though I will agree that I am a fool and an outsider.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-26-2007, 12:16 AM:

Paul! [thumbsup]

I knew I could bait you to post with my post about me not speaking Japaneese! HA! [Razz]

Posted by Allison Parsons (Member # 2728) on 07-26-2007, 12:38 AM:

I flunked out of French in High School, so I guess I do think English is the best language

Posted by Damien Taylor (Member # 4255) on 07-26-2007, 12:53 AM:

quote: Joe Redifer
You just did.

Well played good sir.

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 07-26-2007, 12:55 AM:

Touche! [beer]

Posted by Claude S. Ayakawa (Member # 1401) on 07-26-2007, 02:40 AM:

Joe,

Eh brah! Why you like talk like that. Hawaiin pigin da best way to talk

-Claude

Posted by Chad M Calpito (Member # 3736) on 07-26-2007, 03:42 AM:

Hey, Claude, you said it best, Brah! Da Kine Hawaiian Pigin mo' betta, Braddah! Da Kine other guys make any kine Talk Story. [Big Grin]

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-26-2007, 04:13 AM:

Hey now, quit speakin' moon language!

Posted by Ray Faultless (Member # 903) on 07-26-2007, 04:39 AM:

Joe, are you talking American English or British English.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-26-2007, 04:52 AM:

American English! Though I will accept the Queen's English even though they say funny things like "tosh" and whatnot. Otherwise the only significant difference is the letter u missing or added here and there. Also, the word "spastic" is supposedly highly offensive over in the UK, but we laugh at it here.

Posted by Damien Taylor (Member # 4255) on 07-26-2007, 06:00 AM:

The English language has only one true successor. It's spastic inbred son-in-law: cockney rhyming slang.

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 07-26-2007, 09:18 AM:

Well, this is certainly more useful than the thread on Drew Carey... There... hows that for english?

Posted by Chad M Calpito (Member # 3736) on 07-26-2007, 09:58 AM:

Eh, Braddah Joe, moon language? Brah, you way too funny. But, ya know, da kine Hawaiian Pigin is the best way to speak & read. Here is an awesome example of Hawaiian Pigin: "Tutu's Malasadas so 'Ono, Brok Da Mout Brah." You like? [Big Grin]

So, today, I send to you Braddah Joe, Da Kine spirit of Aloha with a cheers. [beer]

Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 07-26-2007, 10:13 AM:

English may be the #1 bestest language ever, but the Europeans have us beat regarding women.

Posted by Claude S. Ayakawa (Member # 1401) on 07-26-2007, 12:30 PM:

Eh Chad,

Shaka brah! You da best. You live Hawaii before? if you wen live here, where you from? You just like one local guy da tings you say. Joe funny eh wen he say we talk like we wen com from the moon. I neva know people live on the moon. The way we talk no ka oi.

-Claude

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 07-26-2007, 01:35 PM:

Well, it looks like English is for sure the most abused language! [Big Grin]

Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 07-26-2007, 01:49 PM:

But, it's fun ripping up the King's English since our language is actually the most complicated to understand (have to blame the Germanic background on that one) - since we have words spelled the same but with different meanings, different vowel sounds..et. al.

Probably would have been easier for us if we'd adopted the Romantic language end...

Posted by Chad M Calpito (Member # 3736) on 07-26-2007, 02:21 PM:

Aloha, Claude! Well, da kine Haole guy Joe, so funny, make me laugh my Okole off, brah. I live here in da mainland, San Diego, CA, but, I go to Hawai'i to visit da kine 'Ohana in Waipahu & Hilo. Soon, I go move to Waipahu and stay away from mainland. Here, my 'Ohana & I make no shame wen we speak Hawaiian Pigin.

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 07-26-2007, 03:40 PM:

No doubt about it... Claude and Chad played those two black guys in Airplane jive'n with Mrs Cleever!

Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 07-26-2007, 04:48 PM:

quote: Monte L Fullmer
But, it's fun ripping up the King's English since our language is actually the most complicated to understand (have to blame the Germanic background on that one) - since we have words spelled the same but with different meanings, different vowel sounds..et. al.

No, English is difficult to understand not because of the German background, but because it isn't strictly a German background.

Some words come from a German background while others come from the Romantic languages. It's a hodgepodge to say the least. For instance, if you tell most people that inflammable and flammable mean the same thing they'd tell you that you're wrong; but since that word isn't of German background the "in-" prefix has a very different meaning than if it were a Germanic word.

One thing I think that we have going for English is the lack of stupid words that have a gender associated with it and different conjugation based on the gender. UGH! I HATED that in French. And then they have ridiculous things like 2 words for the same thing with different genders; like bicyclette is bicycle but it's feminine whereas vélo also means bicycle and is masculine and auto means car but that's masculine and voiture means the same damn thing and it's feminine.

Oh and they make up their own words for things, especially when the general public already uses a word for it. Take computer; the French term is "ordinateur" whereas every other language has a word that sounds similar to the English one. Or with email, the Académie française decided that the terms being used were too close to sounding English, so they decided to use the term courriel. Ironically, this word originated in Québéc since the Québécois are sometimes looked down upon for not being real French people. Hell, they apparently banned the term "e-mail" from being used in any government-related documents since they made up their own word.

I have nothing against French people, I just think that part of the language is plain stupid.

edit: And English is EASY to learn. But because of its hodgepodge nature and lack of rules that are always applied, it is HARD to master.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-26-2007, 05:10 PM:

I have learned and mastered the English language. Therefore it is easy. I know how to spell words like disgusting, definitely and sequel. The rest of the world seems not to. I can't understand why people don't want to use their own language properly, especially when it is the best language ever.

Posted by Ramon Lamarca Marques (Member # 3621) on 07-26-2007, 05:15 PM:

quote: Joe Redifer
No other language comes close to being as awesome as English is. Would I speak a language that was only second best or worse? No way! English wins.

I suppose it is important to speak several languages to reach an opinion on which is the best.

I don’t like the fact that English lacks the subjunctive verb tense, nevertheless it is quite an easy language to learn because of its simplicity compared to other languages. My favourite is Catalan, not many of us speak it and this makes it more endearing.

quote: Chris Slycord
Romantic languages

They are called Romanic languages.

I like the stubbornness of the French, it would be sad to have a monolingual world, vivre la difference!

Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 07-26-2007, 07:02 PM:

It sounds like Jar Jar speaks a varient of that Hawaiian thing.

Posted by Claude S. Ayakawa (Member # 1401) on 07-27-2007, 12:46 AM:

Eh Chad,

Awesome Man! I live Waipahu eva since I waz born. I go mainland for over two years to learn photography. Afta I finish da photography school I cum back Waipah and open my own photo buzness. Look me up wen you cum Waipahu.

-Claude

Posted by Chad M Calpito (Member # 3736) on 07-27-2007, 09:37 AM:

Houweee, An Den, Braddah Claude! Wen I go Waipahu, No Shame, I look you up. Den, we go make da kine Talk Story. [Big Grin]

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 07-27-2007, 01:56 PM:

Sounds like Cajun talk to me! [Wink]

Posted by Chad M Calpito (Member # 3736) on 07-27-2007, 02:00 PM:

Wow, Braddah Tim make any kine Talk Story. [Big Grin]

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 07-27-2007, 10:13 PM:

Jeez, this thread is starting to look like teenagers' messages to each other on MySpace (except with less misspelled werds).

Posted by Claude S. Ayakawa (Member # 1401) on 07-28-2007, 01:11 AM:

Hey Chad,

I think it would be better if we communicated with each other from now in standard English because our friends here might think Hawaiian pidgin is a rather demented way of expressing ourselves and we certainly should not give them the wrong impression. I am actually rather proud of pidgin because it represents an old part of Hawaii's culture. When my father and mother's parents immigrated from Japan to Hawaii around the turn of the nineteenth century between 1899 and 1903, the only way they were able to communicate with the English speaking white men was through the use of crude English known today as pidgin. Like you, I can easily turn it off or on and I use pidgin only when I have to but there are still many young people in Hawaii who cannot converse in standard English and have very limited writing and reading skills despite the fact that we have an excellent educational system in the state. Sadly, most of them will go through life with this handycap. I had made an effort to use standard English very early in my life when I was about ten years old and I can still remember some of my friends making fun of me because I was trying to talk like a haole (white man). I never let this teasing bother me too much and in time, they accepted the way I chose to speak. Using correct English early in life was a blessing because it made me more aware of the many wonderful things life had to offer such as the appreciation of all forms of art especially music, photography and classic cinema

Please let me know when you will be visiting your 'ohana' (family) in Waipahu during your next visit to Hawaii because I am looking forward to 'talking story' with you.

-Claude

Posted by Kyle Anderson (Member # 3504) on 07-28-2007, 02:39 AM:

I do prefer Esperanto myself, but until others learn it or I learn how to teach it alas, I must be relegated to merely thinking it. [thumbsup]

Posted by Chad M Calpito (Member # 3736) on 07-28-2007, 09:47 AM:

Sounds good, Claude! I use Hawaiian Pigin at work and most of them (95%) like it. Of course, when I converse with customers, I use regular English.

Anyway, when I do goto Waipahu, I will look you up.