Germans top list of world's worst lovers - Page 2

**MSFixR** · 10-11-2009, 09:30 AM

Somehow Hilary Hahn playing Korngold under Seiji Ozawa and the word wanker does not meld.

FireBird · 10-11-2009, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Moshe..

The romans showed their disinterest in philosophy in their grammer?

It's "grammar", not "grammer."

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Originally Posted by MSFixR

Somehow Hilary Hahn playing Korngold under Seiji Ozawa and the word wanker does not meld.

You're right. Immediately after calling out "wankers" I got distracted by Hahn's fingering.

Moshe.. · 10-11-2009, 08:50 PM

yeah yeah americans care about spelling grammer. Everyone should spell how they feel like. The best time for english was before johnson invented official spelling - different people made up their own spellings. Johnson had to kick every third lamp post and always avoided the gaps in the pavement. It's sad we make our kids to take after an obsessive compulsive. Johnson used to buy oysters for his cat

**MSFixR** · 10-12-2009, 05:22 AM

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Everyone should spell how they feel like

If I called you an oxutdlqw would you think I was insulting you or nominating you for sainthood? We have too many languages and dialects in the world as it is with each faction of the opinion that their language is the language just like the various religious sects think that theirs is the only path to eternal salvation.

muse · 10-12-2009, 05:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Moshe..

yeah yeah americans care about spelling grammer.

Well I recently made some experience; on a different international message board (not Fanhost) I wrote 'travelling' and some American chick said that I wrote it wrong because I used two 'l' instead of one. Ha ha, I know that in American English they like to write particular things different compared to British English, but I think it was pretty funny that this woman told me I would be wrong.

Phobos · 10-13-2009, 06:12 PM

latin should be the only language humans use.

FireBird · 10-13-2009, 07:46 PM

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latin should be the only language humans use.

Damn right!

But people: the latter part of this discussion has little relevance to the fact that out of everyone from this forum, I rank #1 as the world's best lover.

¡Viva España, cabrones!

Moshe.. · 10-15-2009, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by MSFixR

If I called you an oxutdlqw would you think I was insulting you or nominating you for sainthood? We have too many languages and dialects in the world as it is with each faction of the opinion that their language is the language just like the various religious sects think that theirs is the only path to eternal salvation.

It's definitely practical to standardise spelling for bureaucratic uses

But the elizabethans made up their own spellings - and they wrote better literature than we do. Shakespeare has more beauty in his spelling, which could condense different meanings into the same word. Any sentence from the balcony scene shows it
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/A...m/Q1/scene/2.2

eg "She speakes, but she sayes nothing... Her eye discourseth, I will answere it. "

"Sayes" is like "says" but also suggests "say as", while the additional e is symmetical with the e in "speakes". "Answere it" is like "answer it", but also suggests " an swear it". "Discourseth" sounds better than "discourses" ect

And he can create more phonetic transcriptions
eg "Vnto the white vpturned woondring eyes''.

"Woondring" tells you how he pronounced his vowels (not like gielgud who would say either "one-dring" or "one-der-ring")

yes it would be a nightmare if people wrote their insurance forms like this.

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Originally Posted by muse

Well I recently made some experience; on a different international message board (not Fanhost) I wrote 'travelling' and some American chick said that I wrote it wrong because I used two 'l' instead of one. Ha ha, I know that in American English they like to write particular things different compared to British English, but I think it was pretty funny that this woman told me I would be wrong.

yeah people care about it a lot (even when the english english spellings look nicer ). We're moving closer to american english I think just so this won't happen so much

**MSFixR** · 10-15-2009, 01:28 PM

How we mutated from smelly Germans to Shakespeare I don't know.

Wasn't Shakespeare writing in the literary style of his time? Furthermore, what small persentage of the populous could read during Shakespeare's time? I'm sure a lot more people could appreciate and understand his plays first hand if they could afford the price of admission. Nervertheless, I agree that Shakespeare's plays sound great when read aloud. We have a free Shakespeare festival in early summer here. They do one play for about two weeks in an outdoor setting each year.

**Plastic Flute** · 10-17-2009, 05:52 PM

Yes in Central Park NYC also. Its called "Shakespeare in the Round." its really a beautiful thing.

I just saw on TV that Jude Law in on BWay or Off Bway in Hamlet. Dont be mad Kate ..but I think I will go.

Moshe.. · 10-20-2009, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by MSFixR

How we mutated from smelly Germans to Shakespeare I don't know.

They imported french words & removed anything that made the german throat clearing sounds - I don't know maybe old saxon sounded better anyway.

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Wasn't Shakespeare writing in the literary style of his time?

It's modern english, but everyone made up different spellings - marlowe, bacon, shakespeare, donne. Shakespeare also does crazy grammar, which is excused by the verse - bacon wrote modern prose.

All we have of the plays are bootlegs. But the sonnets were published officially, and they have the same spellings http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/A...Son/Q1/poem/82

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Furthermore, what small persentage of the populous could read during Shakespeare's time? I'm sure a lot more people could appreciate and understand his plays first hand if they could afford the price of admission. Nervertheless, I agree that Shakespeare's plays sound great when read aloud. We have a free Shakespeare festival in early summer here. They do one play for about two weeks in an outdoor setting each year.

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Yes in Central Park NYC also. Its called "Shakespeare in the Round." its really a beautiful thing

It's also good to read it. His imagery is v condensed - the actors read superfast, and get in the way of your imaginary paintings. And the royal shakespeare company use colloquial accents which are really hard to follow, unless you know it already. Maybe it's better in america

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MSFixR Moderate Moderator Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Dante's Inferno, Circle 5 Posts: 13,287 My Profile	How we mutated from smelly Germans to Shakespeare I don't know. Wasn't Shakespeare writing in the literary style of his time? Furthermore, what small persentage of the populous could read during Shakespeare's time? I'm sure a lot more people could appreciate and understand his plays first hand if they could afford the price of admission. Nervertheless, I agree that Shakespeare's plays sound great when read aloud. We have a free Shakespeare festival in early summer here. They do one play for about two weeks in an outdoor setting each year.

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