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Long time no rant part deux: Edition
Long time no rant part deux: Edition I'm back, minions! I promised you at least two rants, and when The Beast makes a promise, he delivers.... as long as it's within reasonable working hours. RANT 2 - I've decided there is simply no good reason for the letter Q to have been added to the english alphabet. It's not needed, and seems to have been added for style, not substance. The letter Q does not add a new sound to the palate which wasn't already covered well by either C, or K. A cuick respelling of a few kwintessential words in the Q basket will cuite adekwately demonstrate my point. I simply can't think of any words that we couldn't have pronounced just fine without adding that little piggy tailed, mocking letter Q to the ekuation. See..... I did it again. There are many unnecessary components to our language, even ones we've added since breaking free from Europe. We'll say, "That bush has thorns on it." when "That bush has thorns on." does just fine. The "it" isnt really necessary. I wouldn't think you meant, "That bush has thorns on... my dog's ass." George Carlin had some really great examples back in the day. (R.I.P) One of his that I liked, was his observation that "Emergency Situation" has one too many words. If it's an emergency, we already know it's a situation. We also know that if somebody states that there's a situation, it's likely to be an emergency. So anyway..... I highly doubt I'm going to convince the rest of the world that the letter Q isn't needed, and that we should lower the numerical value of the alphabet to 25. I still wanted to point out the fact that it's a piggy tailed little bastard, and I only allow its continued existence because I don't have time to burn millions of dictionaries, and start over. BEAST OUT! |
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I could not agree with you more! And why spell something "ck"?!? Why not just the c or k? Without the q and double ck... Quick could be kwic, cwik, kweek or cwiek and we would all know what it was! Nice to see you back! Something interesting in my life: A surprise on my naked body this morning Come visit my blog to know what I get up to from time to time: [blog 4jasmine2]
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... not to mention us who are native Inglis speakers... no idea which part of our language is British, American, Australian English - or then Central European rubbish... Only universal or also in Scotland Where to start my day or is it month Of course I39ll change I39ll do whatever you like Heatseeking missiles Squirter's life
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re: Q ... without it, there would have not been such a great part for John de Lancie on STTNG {just sayin...}; what would we do if we had a _uestion? as for the ck, well, I have to weigh in on that as well...my name only has 4 letters as it is, and the last 2 are c and k, so well, ah
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