Man

>man
>men

>woman
>women

>human
>humans
>not humen

Explain this anglotards.

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Humans sounds a lot better for one.

>sounds a lot better

Pretty much the answer to all and any questions about the mysteries of the English language.

Goose
Geese
Moose
Moose

box
boxes
fox
foxes
ox
oxen

pretty much, its a shit show

>human
>not hue-man

Explain this shit you raciss white motherfuckas

>irregular verbs

I've never heard anyone pronounce "human" with a short "a". Everyone I know already pronounces it "humen".

drink drank drunk
eat ate eaten
????????

> Expecting English to be logical

Lmao, we just made that shit up

plural of mouse is mice

so why isn't the plural of house, hice

i once succesfully convinced a puerto rican the plural of sheep is shoop

...

English is a weird language. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.

Or cows, cice (with a hard c, like car)

I always used to say the house/hice thing. Still do in my head 2bh

They don't tell you in school that Modern English is a clusterfuck?

twa twi twu twe two

ay vondır if ay rayt layk dis ken anglos andırstent mi?

...

yes

Yes

I can't even name any off the top of my head except to be

I mean I'm sure we have a lot of them I just don't know them

fak :D

pretty qt accent 2bh

yas

Pretty uninformed thread.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umlaut_(linguistics)

Happens in the majority of Germanic languages, English is no different. Nouns of this type are termed 'strong' nouns, much like 'strong verbs' which take an umlaut in the preterite (past) tense. Weak verbs take the dental suffix (-ed/t), nouns obviously take -s.

There used to be more strong nouns, eg

> book -> books
> bok -> bek

There are set rules to follow for umlaut; most reasonably intelligent English speakers can guess

Past tense of.. ?

> to shit

nobody cares nerd lmao

>shat
Because shitted sounds weird. Or you use passive language like
>yesterday I took a shit

I'm full on giggling right now because
>shat

fucking nerd lmao

read none of this

>to be

Linguistics are super interesting, anons!

another nerd lmao

get a life lmao fag

Past tense of 'pling'?

It's made up, but see how your natural English ability shows you the right umlaut.

>shit
Stopped reading there.

get in the locker nerd

Am I the only one who feel somewhat embarrassed when I have to say words like "sheet" and "beach" because they sound exactly like "shit" and "bitch"

>humans
seems interesting, is it any good

No, because they sound completely different.

they don't sound the same

sh it. sh eat

bee ch, vs bit ch

unless ofc you are not trying

>woman
>wuh-mahn

>women
>wih-mehn

>sheet
>beach
>shut
>butch

I'd say... plung... like fling/flung.

Pffffff, you're just jealous of our natural aptitude for sciences.

Shit and bitch have very short vowels, sheet and beach have long vowels, especially in the Midwest and West Coast

You don't go to the bitch unless you're some Aussie cunt, you go to the beeeeech.

youtube.com/watch?v=HDZs0S7qd64
throwback wednesday

They do sound the same, stop pretending

no, unfortunately you have no ear for this

is it not similar in Portuguese?

In Irish it's

fear
fír

bean
mná

duine
daoine

Exactly. Like 'sing' 'sung'

Not really. I have a native accent, so I can pronounce the words properly.

it's american english but it's more or less the same everywhere
youtube.com/watch?v=RVJ-kEAx7Pw

>I can't even name any
to swim
to drink
to buy
to begin
to build

In short, all the fundamental ones which express basic activities and actions.

Pronunciation is pretty fluid, honestly. It depends on location and can change quickly.

canadians are the nerds of Sup Forums

'Build' is a regular verb, bro.

The 'ed' is elided to 't'.

Have you ever read Bill Bryson's book The Mother Tongue? Really good read if you enjoy etymology.

>The 'ed' is elided to 't'.
Yep, which makes it irregular.

wtf I hate english now!?

No, I tend go more hardcore. Linguistics is a bit of an obsession.

No, it doesn't. The past tense is made exactly the same way as every other weak verb.

The 'e' of 'ed' is never stressed (except in certain old fashioned words like 'learned' the adjective), and when two 'd's come together, they're always devoiced into 't'.

> builded > built

>.
Stopped reading there

Stopped.

I know you're a native speak and usually it means there should be no discussion but that's not the case with English because you people don't have grammar classes in school.

As a Canadian, what would you say is the past tense of the verb 'told'?

We have a strange word here in my part of England.

>a native speak
Oh I fucked up

burn
burnt
burned
burning

>Human
>Hu-MAN

Told is already the past tense of tell.

Except I'm actually educated.

Some call 'build' an irregular verb, but it really isn't. It's made in the same way as every other regular verb - by adding 'ed'. But since 'build' ends with a 'd' already, that would cause an awkward 'builded' (which was actually the old fashioned way to pronounce it)

With time, it has become 'built'. Trust me.

I think hes trying to say its 'telled' where he lives

Ha. I fucked up. I meant 'tell'.

In northern England, we say 'telt'. We seem to have kept the strong verb here.

> I telt him to go there.

k

>Linguistics is a bit of an obsession.
Literal and unironic autist.

We say that too in sussex

>mould
>moulded

What?

Homem
Homens

Mulher
Mulheres

Humano
Humanos

Oh, that's interesting. Any other weird conjugations?

Never gets old

i think it's really cool how many different accents you have on that one little island
in america we only have like 5-6 different accents and we're many times your size

really makes me think

That's different, the diphthong means the stress comes on the 'ou'
> MOWlded

The short 'i' sound in 'bild' is awkward when next to 'ded'.

Also, English really doesn't follow rules that well.

Its hard to think of them unless you realise them as you say them because theres kind of a barrier between what you write and what you say. Like if I was talking I might say n'alf for not half instead of just 'very' or 'really'

>verb-some-radom-thing
>verb-ons
>verb-ez
>verb-ent

Explain this Frenchies.

I know, it's disrespectuful for jewish reptilians

all latins do this

Blame latin, portuguese, spanish and italian also have something similar

There may be 5-6 general classifications of accents, but there is way more than 6 literal accents in America. Pennsylvania alone probably has at least 4 or 5

Doesn't it depend on the pronoun?

yes. Je, tu, il, vous,...

subject verb agreement

Because generally speaking an s at the end of a word indicates it is plural.

It depends on the person and number, and the pronoun also depends on the person number.

know that feel, bruh
In British English, there's also can't and cunt. Thx god murcans pronounce the first one just like kent

what? I don't pronounce it that way at all

few people says it kent

most say it k-ant

No, he meant "cahnt" (/kɑnt/)

>never listened in English classes
>never learned single one of the "rules" they shove down your throat
>all my English skills were from browsing 4chun and playing multiplayer games
>always went "by ear" in English tests
>top 10% of country in matriculation examination

yes the brits say it like the german philosopher

> there's no British accent
There are about a hundred thousand ways to say this in England.

I say kannit, but karnt is probably more widely said.

Same, desu
Which makes me horribly fail at grammar exams.

kent ent kant saund ze seim desu :)