English is a pidgin language, combined from the three Celtic languages on the British Isles and 4 norther European languages from northern Europe.
http://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/how-english-evolved-into-a-modern-language/1575959.html https://www.englishclub.com/history-of-english/ http://www.thehistoryofenglish.com/ On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 5:08 PM, Mike Myers <m...@mentor-services.com> wrote: > All: > > Many years ago, I aided Karl Finkemeyer, an IBMer on assignment in NY at the > time from Germany, and a great friend of mine to immigrate to the US. He > eventually became a citizen, and a director at Fidelity Investments. During > the immigration process, his daughter, who by that time, spoke fluent > English and German, showed me a paper which made fun of pronunciation of > words in English. Unfortunately, I did not obtain a copy, but this > discussion made me go and look on-line, hoping to find it. > > Although this is not Friday, for those of you that like language (especially > English), Google "English pronunciation poem" or "English is a crazy > language". Lots of good chuckles for language fans. My favorites were: > > https://archive.org/stream/EnglishCrazyLanguageEssay/English%20Crazy%20Language%20Essay_djvu.txt > http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2011/12/23/english-pronunciation/ > the one above as a poem: http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html > > Mike Myers > Mentor Services Corporation > Goldsboro, NC 27530 > (919) 341-5210 - office > > > On 03/13/2017 05:28 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: >> >> "English is a _stupid_ language." Every language is stupid in its own way, >> some more so than others. If English were rational and simple, everybody >> would be using it. ;-) >> >> . >> . >> J.O.Skip Robinson >> Southern California Edison Company >> Electric Dragon Team Paddler >> SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager >> 323-715-0595 Mobile >> 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW >> robin...@sce.com >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On >> Behalf Of John McKown >> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2017 1:56 PM >> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >> Subject: (External):Re: curious: why S/360 & decendants are "big endian". >> >> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Paul Gilmartin < >> 0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 15:18:03 -0600, Joel C. Ewing wrote: >>> >>> It's cultural. Consider how Europeans write dates. >>> https://xkcd.com/1179/ >>> >>> And significance is subjective. About 10 years ago, I asked an >>> astronomer, "When is the equinox on Saturn?" >>> "Nine fourteen." (orally) >>> >>> September 14th seemed too soon until I pondered and realized she >>> meant, "September, 2014." >>> >>> In Boulder, CO, in the '60s (some century), all local phone numbers >>> were (303)442-xxx or (303)443-xxxx. People routinely exchanged phone >>> numbers (orally) by only the last 5 digits. The first 5 were, if not >>> insignificant, inconsequential. >>> >>> Computer science professor W.M. Waite used to say, "Top of memory," >>> pointing to the floor, and "Bottom of memory", pointing to the >>> ceiling. >>> >> Same in other books I've seen. Why? Probably because we write from top to >> bottom. We write the lowest first, at the top, and the highest last, at the >> bottom. And then we confuse everybody by calling them "ascending" memory >> addresses while writing them in a descending pattern. English is a _stupid_ >> language. >> >> >> >>> -- gil >>> >>> >> -- >> "Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is >> ancient. It's called 'rain'." -- Michael McClary, in alt.fusion >> >> Maranatha! <>< >> John McKown >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email >> to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
