I never knew that!

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

I won't mention that it's spelled Volkswagen over hyere

Ees itt? Wot ay difurance wee hav enn ve waay wee sppel werds.

[Wolferz]

Originally Posted by Cybermat47

Ees itt? Wot ay difurance wee hav enn ve waay wee sppel werds.

I lerned mine with the Evelyn Wouldhead sped reedin corse.
You didn't know that didja?

[Dowly]

I just learned that in the episode "Breaker of Chains" of Game of Thrones,
the champion is insulting Daenerys by citing the French guard's insults from
Monty Python & Holy Grail in low Valyrian.

Posted by the linguistic of the show:

Byjan vavi demble eva o, trezy eme verdje espo jimi! Oa mysa iles me nýnyghi, si oa kiba tuziles espo tomistos!
("I fart in your general direction, son of a window-dresser! Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!")

Já si hojgá oa gundja, trezy eme mero dovodedha!
(“Go and boil your bottom, son of a silly person!”)

Kiman nya másina orvorta va oi sodjistos!
(“I wave my private parts at your aunties!”)

Do eban av kimívagho dombo, o doru-borto pame espo gruzi evi havor espo begistos!
(“I don’t want to talk to you no more you empty-headed animal food trough wiper!”)

Ghorgan ji pungo va o, nynta Dare espo Zaldrizes, o si une oi dovodedhi, Vesterozi azzzzzantys.
(“I blow my nose at you, so-called Dragon Queen, you and all your silly Westerosi kaniggets!”)

[Eichhörnchen]

Ironically, before Caxton began the task of standardizing the English language, you could indeed spell words just about any way you wanted. Why did he have to go and bloody well interfere anyway?

[Schroeder]

Originally Posted by Eichhornchen

Ironically, before Caxton began the task of standardizing the English language, you could indeed spell words just about any way you wanted. Why did he have to go and bloody well interfere anyway?

Especially since he didn't standardize anything at all or why are so many English words written almost similar but pronounced very differently?

[Eichhörnchen]

Well we've got our problems and you've got yours, like the word "Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitan"!

(And I do often feel sorry for people trying to make sense of our language)

[Schroeder]

Originally Posted by Eichhornchen

Well we've got our problems and you've got yours, like the word "Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitan"!

(And I do often feel sorry for people trying to make sense of our language)

In case I wasn't clear I'm always a bit frustrated that I don't know how to pronounce English words when I read them for the first time. For example there is the word "sign". When I now stumble across the military rank "Ensign" I would assume that the "sign" part in the word is pronounced like in "road sign" but it isn't. And stuff like that's driving me nuts sometimes that I never know how to spell a word if I only heard it and never now how to pronounce a word if I've only read it.

And yes, we love to put words together that you would spell apart.
And don't get me started on our three different randomly assigned noun markers and the difference between casual talk "du" and formal talk "sie". Must be confusing as hell for foreigners.