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Same alphabet, just selective quoting of letters and spaces.

Pep (Childish eh?)

You did so...

And as I have paid for my five minutes, I want my five minutes!

If you delve into the history of the English languge, you'll see that most of what today looks like irregularities can actually be explained-for example all those "weird" pronunciation exceptions. English is far more regular than most people think. I find German perfectly boring. No foreign influences to the extent of what English experienced. For pronunciation purposes, I prefer Welsh or Latin. Both easy to pronounce because there are very strict rules. Or Old English.

Btw, SPQR is usually considered the earliest acronym ever. Discuss.

Btw, SPQR is usually considered the earliest acronym ever. Discuss.

I say IBTL as "eye-bottle."

So you judge the worth of words as inverse to the number of syllables? An interesting evaluation method.

And you obviously failed to comprehend the "nice" comment, which alluded to the distinction which *has* a significance, although your devotion to minimalisation might want to simplify things further. Perhaps you would like English converted into a finite set vocabulary like computing languages?

(Oxbridge? Cambridge doesn't descend to such mundane issues)

Not me. History. Or prehaps Zipf's law been replaced by that other power law, "90% of everything is crap," now that sci-fi writers are the ultimate authorities on everything.
It's hard to see in the background, but that's a Rosenquist in my Profile pic, not an Agnes Martin. As to "the subtle original meaning of the word 'nice'," I'm still not sure which original meaning you intended, "silly" or "slutty."
Oh, I misunderstood that you were at Cambridge, which would seem an existence proof of that descent (at the very least ).

Note that the website's example is defective;it's missing several slashes.

The site's url is not impressive, a subdomain of free.fr.

Try the one for 'I Am Not A Lawyer.'

Not me. History. Or prehaps Zipf's law been replaced by that other power law, "90% of everything is crap," now that sci-fi writers are the ultimate authorities on everything.
It's hard to see in the background, but that's a Rosenquist in my Profile pic, not an Agnes Martin. As to "the subtle original meaning of the word 'nice'," I'm still not sure which original meaning you intended, "silly" or "slutty."
Oh, I misunderstood that you were at Cambridge, which would seem an existence proof of that descent (at the very least ).

LOL

I was reading this thread from the start, then I noticed some low life loser push his/her intellect on to another person and the thread went to hell. Some of this person's posts had to literally take hours to type and research. Impressive! Not a lot of people can sit here and argue over stupid things and waste countless hours on a single post just to prove some erelevant point (or do they??). My comment will probably be trolled to death but I wont know it.

Happy holidays.

The difference is that in your case it's true whereas in my case it's just your wishful thinking.

Hey! A whole sentence you managed to type correctly without having to edit it!

Pep (For a change - although if I were sub-editing it I would throw in the odd comma)

I think everyone should just ignore this thread and let it die?

I sometimes do type sentences without errors - not often, but it does happen.

I would also throw in the odd comma, but grammar doesn't have many hard and fast rules, as I'm sure you know. If you don't know, then consider yourself taught

Were you under the influence of something when you typed this? It makes very little sense. As an example, Zipf's Law says nothing about the worth of words, merely offering an observation of a statistical analysis of their frequency.

Visual allegories as exemplified by minor transatlantic "artists" don't appear terribly relevant to the verbal argument at hand, either.

As far as "nice" is concerned, try looking up the Latin root, which sums up your cohort's erroneous attitude.

(I am happy to be in the 10% and allow you and your colleagues to occupy the 90%)

Pep (I won't wait around fruitlessly for you to do so either)

"Worth"? Of course it makes no sense if one mistakes linguistics to be a prescriptive pursuit. Personally, I'm of the Humpty Dumpty school. Nonetheless, we're debating the merits of word length--where the very words in question describe how whole noun phrases are shortened to single tokens.

It's comparing the virtues of leeward and windward whistling.
That's because it obviously wasn't an allegory; it was a dig at "minimalisation"--another instance of syllable surplus except in relation to Minimalism.
I've lost track: Which distinction was being termed "nice", this thread having several to which it would be apt: TIN- vs TAN-something-or-other? Or perhaps "acronym" vs "initialism?"

So, yeah, if "nice" was a punning ironic confession, then cleverly subtle indeed.
*wallows* happily, confident that the tide won't be falling any time soon.

"Worth"? Of course it makes no sense if one mistakes linguistics to be a prescriptive pursuit. Personally, I'm of the Humpty Dumpty school. Nonetheless, we're debating the merits of word length--where the very words in question describe how whole noun phrases are shortened to single tokens.

It's comparing the virtues of leeward and windward whistling.
That's because it obviously wasn't an allegory; it was a dig at "minimalisation"--another instance of syllable surplus except in relation to Minimalism.
I've lost track: Which distinction was being termed "nice", this thread having several to which it would be apt: TIN- vs TAN-something-or-other? Or perhaps "acronym" vs "initialism?"

So, yeah, if "nice" was a punning ironic confession, then cleverly subtle indeed.
*wallows* happily, confident that the tide won't be falling any time soon.

I hope the hangover isn't too bad.

Pep (Sorry if I am confusing your obviously overstretched brain)