ConTractor wrote:If you want Paris to use the word, ex. in a advertising campaign, you must pay her.
Ok. I have read your post again, it clearly says "wanted her", sorry, my bad, thanks for the correction. But if you think about that, it's gonna be difficult for her not saying "hot" in an advertising campaign, even if she is not paid for that, why?, it's simple, that word is like the 30% of her vocabulary.
Elmo wrote:English speakers who try to learn other languages (yes there are some!) often complain about all the excptions to the rules for gender and tense. They do not even realize that English has some of the strangest exceptions imaginable.
But english is by far easiest than many languages; think about the latin based languages (spanish, italian, french, portuguese, romanian and other minor languages like catalan or euskera); now think, per example about german and dutch (I don't know alot of dutch, but by the little I know, I think is still a more difficult language than english); finally think about the asian languages, I mean chinese and japanese, how many simbols you have to learn for learning to read and write? I forgot, the most difficult language known is from USA's territory, a native language (I don't remember it's name).
Elmo wrote:Too bad that most of the mistakes are made by native English speakers
It's the same here with spanish, a lot of people is tired of writing the "c" and the "q", they just write the "k", like "kuando" for "cuando" or "kiero" for "quiero"; also, almost nobody remembers the "¿" for opening an interrogative sentence, or the "acentos", like "á" or "ú". Well, I think it's part of the language evolution; at the end, the changes in the language are made for those that use it, and slowly, new rules appear and old rules disapear, too bad the culture is in play too.
Elmo wrote:that illiterate kid from London who thinks I'm his m8.
Can you explain?, what's a "m8"?
Elmo wrote:You get IN a car, but you get ON a bus.
Really?, cool.