Things You Don't Know About the English Language

[FeralRadish]

To begin, here are two thing you probably didn't know about the English Language. 1. The term "due to" cannot mean "because of" "due to" can only be used to say when something must be done. "The report is due to me on Tuesday" 2. The word "quote" (quoteception ) is not a noun, it is a verb, the noun is "quotation" now I would like to ask if you know any interesting little known facts about English.

 

[holy_secret]

The past tense of Go (went) is actually the past tense of the obsolete verb "wend" (which means to turn today).
That makes so little sense.

 

[Debatra]

ghoti

Say it out loud.

Wrong. The correct answer is "fish". tough women nation

Captcha: schoriz conjunction

 

[nyaman]

Well, meanings change over time so your original two aren't quite right. It may have been like that in older forms of English, but to use that form of 'due' in current English would be just as wrong as using our form back then.
As for my fact, pretty much any word three syllables or longer isn't actually a native word, but borrowed from either french or latin.

 

[Stall]

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/due

4 : capable of being attributed : ascribable -- used with to

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quote

1: quotation

Hm... I guess the Merriam-Webster, one of the most reputable English language dictionaries, is wrong, and some stranger on the internet is correct.

Spoiler

Of course bloody not.

 

[Giest4life]

"At this point in time," or, "at this moment in time" is an atrocious redundancy. It should either be "at this point," "at this time," or, "at this moment."

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Well, meanings change over time so your original two aren't quite right. It may have been like that in older forms of English, but to use that form of 'due' in current English would be just as wrong as using our form back then.

What a gay thought. It's a play on words, to do with the changing meaning of the word gay over time, from happy, to homosexual to something disagreeable, of which, all three could be correct in reference to the statement quoted and since this phenomenon is what the statement is referring to humour can be derived from my comment. [small]please don't ban me[/small]
In a less dangerously homophobic remark Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Is a grammatically valid sentence, although you'll need to Google it to have a hope of understanding it.

 

[StereoMike]

1. The term "due to" cannot mean "because of" "due to" can only be used to say when something must be done. "The report is due to me on Tuesday"

Not at all true.

Here's two things most people (Read: British people) tend to forget about the English Language:

It's alive and it's regional. Different words can have totally different meanings across different generations, places, or cultures.

 

[FluxCapacitor]

Things FeralRadish doesn't know about English:

Unlike many languages that have a formal governing body that determines language best practice for official purposes (French, Hebrew, German to name a few), English is a collaborative effort. As a living language, it isn't static, and definitions vary over time and geography according to common usage - and if we're short on a word, we'll happily borrow it from someone else... Major dictionaries can act as appropriate yardsticks for current popular sentiment, but the most basic rule is that if English speakers are saying it, it's an English word.

EDIT: fuck, beaten...

 

[pppppppppppppppppp]

Jesus didn't speak English.

That would honestly surprise a lot of people in my hometown...

 

[Princess Rose]

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Is a grammatically valid sentence, although you'll need to Google it to have a hope of understanding it.

That would be grammatically correct if you added a period to the end of it. As it is, the sentence is incomplete without the period.

Yes, I'm being overly critical. And, while I was parcing the various noun Buffalos vs verb vs adjective vs etc I noticed the lack of a period.