US Air Strike Kills 85 Civilians

**Papewaio** · 07-22-2016, 09:37

Originally Posted by Greyblades

We invented the language we get to say how it's words are pronounced

Except probably 80% of the English language is loan words from other languages. That's why you have beef and cattle, pork & pigs, houses and bungalows...

**Greyblades** · 07-22-2016, 18:26

Originally Posted by Papewaio

Except probably 80% of the English language is loan words from other languages. That's why you have beef and cattle, pork & pigs, houses and bungalows...

And? Our language is the best because it picks up the best of the other language and leaves behind the dregs that make them inferior, thus we get to choose to we call the people between france and poland "Germans", "Deutsche" or "those Nazi twats".

**Pannonian** · 07-22-2016, 19:17

Originally Posted by Greyblades

And? Our language is the best because it picks up the best of the other language and leaves behind the dregs that make them inferior, thus we get to choose to we call the people between france and poland "Germans", "Deutsche" or "those Nazi twats".

The genesis of the English language allows us to have such descriptive place names as Torpenhow Hill.

From tor meaning hill, pen meaning hill, how meaning hill, and hill meaning hill.

**Greyblades** · 07-22-2016, 20:32

It's how we vertically rotate, my fellow of african descent.

**Gilrandir** · 07-23-2016, 04:37

Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh

Guerrilla (pronounced as /gwair - EE - yuh/ btw, not like the animal as most yanks do)

Originally Posted by Greyblades

No it's pronounced as /ger -ril - la/, lieutenant is pronounced as /Left - ten - ant/, Myanmar is pronounced as /Bur - ma/ and French is prounounced as /cheeze - eat - ing - sur - ren - der - mon - kee/.

We invented the language we get to say how it's words are pronounced

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/pron...lish/guerrilla

**Husar** · 07-23-2016, 13:07

Originally Posted by Gilrandir

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/pron...lish/guerrilla

All wrong, it's a Spanish word and Seamus is closest or nails it, depending on how you pronounce the phonetic writing.

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/tr...rrilla-warfare

Listen to the two examples here, I prefer the Latin American one.

**Pannonian** · 07-23-2016, 13:50

Originally Posted by Husar

All wrong, it's a Spanish word and Seamus is closest or nails it, depending on how you pronounce the phonetic writing.

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/tr...rrilla-warfare

Listen to the two examples here, I prefer the Latin American one.

From my limited knowledge of Latin languages, would "gaireeya" be closest to the mark? And IIRC it comes from the Spanish insurgency against the French invaders during the Napoleonic wars.