Articles are completely useless in the English language, grammar police where are you to weigh in?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Should we get rid of proper spelling too? Hu kairs az long az u git tha meening, rit?

Luv eet!

What is proper English spelling though? Nobody knows, nor does anyone know why certain words with exact same order of letters are pronounced differently! Sean, Shawn. Anna, with an e, but Armory, with an a!

Maybe you don't know but others do. There are reasons for all of these spellings and pronunciations. That's what etymology is, the history and explanation of words.

[Anonymous]

Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Should we get rid of proper spelling too? Hu kairs az long az u git tha meening, rit?

Luv eet!

What is proper English spelling though? Nobody knows, nor does anyone know why certain words with exact same order of letters are pronounced differently! Sean, Shawn. Anna, with an e, but Armory, with an a!

Maybe you don't know but others do. There are reasons for all of these spellings and pronunciations. That's what etymology is, the history and explanation of words.

But grammar/spelling/meanings change… hence history

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Should we get rid of proper spelling too? Hu kairs az long az u git tha meening, rit?

Luv eet!

What is proper English spelling though? Nobody knows, nor does anyone know why certain words with exact same order of letters are pronounced differently! Sean, Shawn. Anna, with an e, but Armory, with an a!

Maybe you don't know but others do. There are reasons for all of these spellings and pronunciations. That's what etymology is, the history and explanation of words.

Ha, ha. I probably know more than you do! After all, I studied Latin, and while I did not study ancient Greek, I studied ancient Greece and learned a ton of words and mythology, and read most poetry. I also studied French, German, English, and Norwegian, in addition to speaking a Slavic language and hence being able to understand several Slavic languages. I can recognize the root of the word in Slavic and English and German and French. Indo-European, no? There is a reason for it. I can even recognize and find the root of most words in Iranian and Indian.

[Anonymous]

I am not speaking historic English, I am speaking contemporary Enligsh!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Should we get rid of proper spelling too? Hu kairs az long az u git tha meening, rit?

Luv eet!

What is proper English spelling though? Nobody knows, nor does anyone know why certain words with exact same order of letters are pronounced differently! Sean, Shawn. Anna, with an e, but Armory, with an a!

Take it up with the dictionary. There are commonly accepted ways to spell words, the rules don't always apply the same way, but we all do our best so that we can communicate effectively. If you want to show everyone you have a poor grasp of the English language keep posting every day "Is everyone still wearing mask?" since someone (maybe not you) seems to love saying this.

OP here, Not me. What a stupid question to ask though.

[Anonymous]

I bet you 100 years from now, most of the articles in English will be a thing of the past.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I bet you 100 years from now, most of the articles in English will be a thing of the past.

Doubt it. OP is wrong that articles provide no information and are worthless. There's no reason for them to go away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?

Stop trying to make fetch happen, Gretchen!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Should we get rid of proper spelling too? Hu kairs az long az u git tha meening, rit?

Luv eet!

What is proper English spelling though? Nobody knows, nor does anyone know why certain words with exact same order of letters are pronounced differently! Sean, Shawn. Anna, with an e, but Armory, with an a!

Maybe you don't know but others do. There are reasons for all of these spellings and pronunciations. That's what etymology is, the history and explanation of words.

Ha, ha. I probably know more than you do! After all, I studied Latin, and while I did not study ancient Greek, I studied ancient Greece and learned a ton of words and mythology, and read most poetry. I also studied French, German, English, and Norwegian, in addition to speaking a Slavic language and hence being able to understand several Slavic languages. I can recognize the root of the word in Slavic and English and German and French. Indo-European, no? There is a reason for it. I can even recognize and find the root of most words in Iranian and Indian.

Is your native language Russian? Russian speakers of English notoriously have great difficulty learning the use of definite and indefinite articles in English.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?

Nuance. Read 1984.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There is a big difference between "the" and "a." Look at these two sentences:

1) The boy is running down the street.
2) A boy is running down the street.

In #1 you know it is a specific boy, one who within the context of the paragraph has been identified. In #2 you only know that some random boy is running down the street.

Not much difference, though, and who is ever saying that other than English teachers? To teach how to use a useless article. When did you hear that sentence in actual use? I know this boy or a random boy is running? You are never going to use it that way, ever. Useless.

Well, "Boy is running down street" pretty much does everything either of the two examples do.

And I can see how you could pull off vivid meaning using no articles and also not, say, repeating "brown haired boy is running down street. Brown haired boy is veering into traffic. Blue car hits brown haired boy, but brown haired boy keeps running". But . . . . Much in our language has been shaped by usages going back millenia (10s of millenia), many words and phrases, if you ponder them, have little or at best cryptic meaning.

Someone must be tearing their hair own helping someone with homework.

[Anonymous]

Scientific and medical writing needs articles in English for precision.

If I were writing a case report I would need to distinguish between what The Patient experienced vs A patient who had a more typical presentation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Should we get rid of proper spelling too? Hu kairs az long az u git tha meening, rit?

Luv eet!

What is proper English spelling though? Nobody knows, nor does anyone know why certain words with exact same order of letters are pronounced differently! Sean, Shawn. Anna, with an e, but Armory, with an a!

Maybe you don't know but others do. There are reasons for all of these spellings and pronunciations. That's what etymology is, the history and explanation of words.

Ha, ha. I probably know more than you do! After all, I studied Latin, and while I did not study ancient Greek, I studied ancient Greece and learned a ton of words and mythology, and read most poetry. I also studied French, German, English, and Norwegian, in addition to speaking a Slavic language and hence being able to understand several Slavic languages. I can recognize the root of the word in Slavic and English and German and French. Indo-European, no? There is a reason for it. I can even recognize and find the root of most words in Iranian and Indian.

Is your native language Russian? Russian speakers of English notoriously have great difficulty learning the use of definite and indefinite articles in English.

No. But, I do have a hard time with articles in English, almost everyone not native does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?

Kevin is so funny. OP watch that episode and you will see the failed experiment!