16 Apr
1999
16 Apr
'99
10:28 a.m.
I csn't help but to get in on this one...
Good enough reason. Beats me why it is taught to us as being Munich then.
Why do we call it Germany when it's really Deutchland?
I know that Cymru is called Wales because of the Saxon word 'wealas'
meaning 'foreigner' or 'slave' which is odd because the Saxons were the
foreigners.
Not really, well, not in English anyway..
Yeah, the phonetic english letters confuse me also.
Three reasons... Mutations due to surrounding letters (very much the case
in Welsh), Poor and/or lazy pronunciation (i.e. 'spelt' instead of
'spelled') and the introduction of foreign words (i.e. 'fajitas' &
'resume').
Gender! YUCK! What a bad development (IMHO).
Not in the US. (Which I am not criticizing)
What about the mains voltage? Does that vary a lot? We're all 240v 50hz.
(In theory, anyway)
240V was chosen to be the standard to reduce line losses??? Why 50cyc?
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I always wondered why Munich sometimes gets shown as
Munchen.
Because that's what the Germans call it? Extras? It's the same characters. Accented. If you
think about it, it
actually helps pronounciation. Can you explain
why English words are
pronounced the way they are?
Some I can, others I doubt if Mr. Oxford himself could explain.
Like not how they are spelt?
Indeed, english spelling and grammar is awkward to non native speakers.
Particularly since the rules seem to change depending on the word, in some
cases anyway.. > >all this masculine/feminine/neuter gender and
case stuff. Confused the
hell out of me.
m/f/n is no
that difficult. Just different from language to language.
Well, no not really. Simply doesn't exist in English. Everything is um,
neuter I guess, we don't have a term for it that we didn't pinch from
another language actually.
Trying to think of another language that doesn't do gender (in the
linguistic sense), Norwegian is almost that way I think, but Indonesian is
about the only one that is fully ungendered that I can recall. There may
well be others, I am far from being even mildy competent in this area.. >1)
Everybody speaks English. ('Cepting a few migrants/boat people....:^)
> Now they do... 3) 240VAC 3 pin sockets are a national standard.
I think only the English (and Swiss?) are the ones that want to be
different to the rest of Europe - in this case anyway (there are many
others).