My proposals for the english language

This is an open letter to that fat bottomed broad Merriam Webster

Past tense of Snooze should be Snoze - I won’t try to think about Snoze being for Sneeze. Maybe Sneeze and Snooze could share Snoze

Double Possession should work - When you want to ask about something that belongs to something that belongs to someone. If I wanted to talk about your dogs paws I should be able to say Yours’s. The dog is Yours, the dogs paws are Yours’s

The oo to ee and non-changing plurality - Silly for Goose to be Geese, Deer shouldn’t stay Deer when there is more than one. Mooses, deers, gooses, you can’t make silly rules because you made a silly word

Americans and Brits - Y’all need to get on the same page with your spellings, I don’t think either of y’all are strictly following the rules, people just pick and choose which US or British word they use

Random accents for foreign words - when an English speaker is talking and then suddenly breaks out an accent to pronounce a foreign word. Actually I kinda like this it always catches me off guard

The - unnecessary word. It makes your nouns sound like they’re royalty “Open car door” vs “Open //the// car door” “Where is cat” vs “Where is //the// cat”

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Comments ( 17 )
  • MonsteraDeliciosa

    You are not an idiot, this post is too cute! ♡

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    • MonsteraDeliciosa

      Please amuse me and propose more for English language.

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  • Boojum

    This amused me far more than it probably should have.

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  • Tommythecaty

    “Open car door”

    People would open the door for you as they would assume you to be handicapped hearing that.

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  • LloydAsher

    You are an idiot

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    • Somenormie

      https://youareanidiot.cc/

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  • olderdude-xx

    Please remember that since English is a composite language (assembled of words from numerous other languages) that there really is only 1 Absolute Rule:

    "There are no absolute rules, every general rule has exceptions."

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  • Curiouskitten444

    *nods and looks both ways* okay yeah, okay

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  • RoyyRogers

    Is confused <<<<<

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

    the britishism for maneuver shouldnt be spelt as maneoeuoevoeure

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  • Ummitsstillme

    The craziness of the English laguage is that it is a weird combonation of a Germanic and a Romance language.

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  • hauntedbysandwiches

    I agree with some of that and especially this "Random accents for foreign words - when an English speaker is talking and then suddenly breaks out an accent to pronounce a foreign word. Actually I kinda like this it always catches me off guard"

    It's weird how we only do that with certain not all 'foreign' words. Makes little to no sense. And we say "Pariss" not "Pah-ree" for Paris. But we say "fow" not "fawx" for "faux" as in faux pas. So we pronounce Paris the non native way yet we pronounce faux pas and other French words the French way and that's just one of many many oddities of the American language system and how it follows no set rules.

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  • Ummitsstillme

    Forced accents with words are the worst.
    Chef Giada de laurentiis emphasises the Italian she isn't when she says, "pasta" or "marinara". It is so annoying, you're American, embrace it.

    No one is doing anyone any favors when they hard pronounce quesadilla or guacamole and don't speak Spanish and grew up in Wisconsin.

    I'm with you, the Brits have useless ineffiecient uses of letters and syllables. Aluminium? Piss off. Colour? Sigh...

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    • hauntedbysandwiches

      That's not strictly used in Britain. It's also used in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It's not a British thing. It's an English speaking thing. America is the only place that decided to change the spellings of true English and create their own new spellings. If anything America should have stayed with the original spellings.

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  • YE

    Yeahs.

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  • dude_Jones

    Yours’s paw by inference is a nice touch. Computer languages have never had a problem with double and triple possession.

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  • jethro

    Merriam Webster isn't a woman.

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