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Post by Leonid Govorov on Oct 14, 2017 5:38:35 GMT
I am sure most of you english speakers know of this webpage, but urbandictionary.com have helped me a ton while I wasn't very good in english. For the people who don't know about this, it's basically a dictionary that tells you the definition of slangs, which can be pretty hard to understand if your mothers' toungue isn't English(like me). Anyways, I hope you enjoy using this webpage, I certainly have, and I still do
Btw(by the way): link- urbandictionary.com |
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Post by Nobunaga Oda on Oct 14, 2017 14:39:38 GMT
I sense that in the future, you'll create a list of helpful threads for the Officers' Lounge, this being one of said threads
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Post by Minnesotaball on Oct 14, 2017 17:00:06 GMT
You can also find some rather....interesting subjects which I will not mention here and now.
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Post by Saltin on Oct 15, 2017 0:40:22 GMT
Urban dictionary is a mixed bag,it can help in understand the "street" expressions or slang but should be taken with a grain of salt. There are a many entries that are nothing but extremely local expressions that the great majority of people would never mean in chatting. That is to say many of these attached meanings are fake, they are just wishfull thinking by few individual that want their version of meaning to be attached to a word/expression.
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Post by Minnesotaball on Oct 15, 2017 1:20:15 GMT
Sometimes when I am bored I go on urban dictionary to see some of the stuff people have come up with, some of it makes me wonder...
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Post by Saltin on Oct 15, 2017 7:47:06 GMT
Sometimes when I am bored I go on urban dictionary to see some of the stuff people have come up with, some of it makes me wonder... Right, a lot of it looks made up, or maybe specific to one neighborhood slang. |
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Post by Leonid Govorov on Oct 15, 2017 7:51:43 GMT
Sometimes when I am bored I go on urban dictionary to see some of the stuff people have come up with, some of it makes me wonder... Right, a lot of it looks made up, or maybe specific to one neighborhood slang. Like every website, this one also has flaws. |
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Post by The Light Bringer on Oct 17, 2017 4:09:22 GMT
I am sure most of you english speakers know of this webpage, but urbandictionary.com have helped me a ton while I wasn't very good in english. For the people who don't know about this, it's basically a dictionary that tells you the definition of slangs, which can be pretty hard to understand if your mothers' toungue isn't English(like me). Anyways, I hope you enjoy using this webpage, I certainly have, and I still do
Btw(by the way): link- urbandictionary.com And there is me who can spell out english words that most natives haven't even heard about lol |
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Post by Hobo Joe on Oct 17, 2017 19:55:24 GMT
I am sure most of you english speakers know of this webpage, but urbandictionary.com have helped me a ton while I wasn't very good in english. For the people who don't know about this, it's basically a dictionary that tells you the definition of slangs, which can be pretty hard to understand if your mothers' toungue isn't English(like me). Anyways, I hope you enjoy using this webpage, I certainly have, and I still do
Btw(by the way): link- urbandictionary.com And there is me who can spell out english words that most natives haven't even heard about lol Soliloquoy |
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Post by Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb on Oct 17, 2017 20:22:20 GMT
I think this is a perfect example of words that have no use whatsoever. |
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Post by The Light Bringer on Oct 17, 2017 21:50:17 GMT
And there is me who can spell out english words that most natives haven't even heard about lol Soliloquoy It actually comes from French... I better like contronyms lol |
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Post by Hobo Joe on Oct 18, 2017 15:05:45 GMT
It actually comes from French... I better like contronyms lol A lot of the fancy English words are French, you know why? In the high middle ages, the Norman Duke William the Bastard invaded England and succeeded, bringing french influence to England. Eventually, the cultural and racial ties between France and England died, and the French wanted Normandy back as they felt that it was their rightful land, which caused the 100 years war. The reason the fancy words are french is because French is what the upper class spoke /end lecture |
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Post by The Light Bringer on Oct 18, 2017 22:05:43 GMT
It actually comes from French... I better like contronyms lol A lot of the fancy English words are French, you know why? In the high middle ages, the Norman Duke William the Bastard invaded England and succeeded, bringing french influence to England. Eventually, the cultural and racial ties between France and England died, and the French wanted Normandy back as they felt that it was their rightful land, which caused the 100 years war. The reason the fancy words are french is because French is what the upper class spoke /end lecture Actually the French influence is much older than you think, if wee talk about English, then it is around 2000 years new and has been in constant changes, if you traveled to 18th century, it would be easier to communicate with French people than English |
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Post by Hobo Joe on Oct 19, 2017 0:00:16 GMT
A lot of the fancy English words are French, you know why? In the high middle ages, the Norman Duke William the Bastard invaded England and succeeded, bringing french influence to England. Eventually, the cultural and racial ties between France and England died, and the French wanted Normandy back as they felt that it was their rightful land, which caused the 100 years war. The reason the fancy words are french is because French is what the upper class spoke /end lecture Actually the French influence is much older than you think, if wee talk about English, then it is around 2000 years new and has been in constant changes, if you traveled to 18th century, it would be easier to communicate with French people than English Yes but thats tracing back the french influence on MODERN english, which can be traced back very far. If we look at the extremely isolated early medieval england, their english had little to no french influence. That being said, yes, modern english is alot like archaic french, because french back then, like english now, was a blend of latin and germanic languages |
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Post by The Light Bringer on Oct 19, 2017 4:32:08 GMT
Actually the French influence is much older than you think, if wee talk about English, then it is around 2000 years new and has been in constant changes, if you traveled to 18th century, it would be easier to communicate with French people than English Yes but thats tracing back the french influence on MODERN english, which can be traced back very far. If we look at the extremely isolated early medieval england, their english had little to no french influence. That being said, yes, modern english is alot like archaic french, because french back then, like english now, was a blend of latin and germanic languages English is a huge mix of languages |
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