Why Is All This Called Thread???

i have seen forum members say that a message is thread. why? thread is string not a message. Is it really so hard. ?

 

You have just posted a thread right now.

It’s a metaphor I guess

 

engllish is not good language. same word but different meaning.

 

Moving to off-topic.

 

Messages on forums are threaded meaning they follow a path, like a piece of thread. Otherwise it would just be a chaos of individual messages with no relation to each other.

 

It's not that English isn't a 'good' language, languages aren't good or bad, it's just what people are used to. I'm sure the vast majority of English people would struggle quite a bit trying to learn one of the Chinese languages. They are very different ways of structuring language.

I mean, I must have spent at least 10 years being taught French and I'd almost certainly struggle to hold a conversation in French.

Still, I would like to learn some more languages, German is at the top of my list at the moment.

 

Mange tout, Rodney. Mange tout.

 

Pause Paws Pores Pours

It’s a great language, fantastic for wordplay.

 

Having homonyms si pretty common for european languages... but having to deduce meaning from context is also quite comon for Chinese, isn't it? Ins't it heavily context based language, with quite fair share of (almost) homophones?

 

[removed by Protagonist - we're on the case already]

 

what? case?

 

Spambots/ trolls. Basically, they're dealing with them.

 

Can you stop taking the micky out of our culture. If you don't understand something, or need help translating, ask. Don't start acting in a condescending way

 

who are spam bot and troll?

 

Google is your friend (other search engines are available).

 

no, I asked who. not what

 

I refer you to my previous answer!

 

Bots that spam and people who troll. Clue's in the name.

Also, the reason these are called "threads" is because it's like a thread of a string, but instead of being made of string- it's made of messages.

 

Well, I wouldn't normally feed a troll, but someone needs to defend the mother tongue.
English is a great language and we Americans have made it even better.

( Hides in closet, awaiting backlash. )

Oh, by the way ,stujoy, the " r " is not silent in pores and pours, so your homophones don't quite work. I'm sure you'll think of better examples.

Here's one: there, their, they're. Perhaps the main source of endless agony in these very forums.
( Except for "of " as in " should of been ".) Grrr!

 

Casual racism accepted! Backlash mode engaged...
Listen here my good fellow, whereas you chaps speak a form of English, I am English.............
albeit northern with a fairly heavy accent and we and I say pores without the R..... and the E and the O come to think about it more paws as it would be written, same for pour.
stujoys correct in what he says, just depends on where your geography places you in this great land you are.
Tschh you bloody colonials...making cups of tea with salt water and all that, just not cricket!

Think that's about it! Your turn!

 

I never claimed they were homophones although they are cited as examples and they are merging more these days. Now, different dialects may or may not pronounce the ‘r’ in those words but I reckon most British dialects pronounce all four of those words exactly the same during normal speech and rolling the ‘r’ has been dying out in most places where English is spoken anyway, and to put ‘r’ in pores and pours you do need to roll it. I think I’ll stick with it as an example of four very similar, if not 100% exact soundalikes. Where I live some people pronounce them in a very odd way (along with a lot of other words) which I can’t even put down in letters, but a lot of one syllable words end up with two syllables with a sort of ‘w’ sound in the middle. We do laugh at them.

 

Really...

 

Yes because America has a track record of making stuff better

 

american rail transport for example, best stuff around

 

And the fastest too!

 

Oh, by the way xi haoyu china, I liked your attempt at tagging me in your signature.

 

To paraphrase Bernard Woolley: "No, the US doesn't make it better, the US doesn't make anything better."

 

Like that bit on Boston where you have to reverse the train round a huuuuge loop at 5mph and back into the station? Brilliant solution, that.

 

Oh, so now this thread is a bash America thread now? Ok....

 

I don’t know about everybody else but I was just joking, I mean my favourite Loco is one of the most American looking British ones around

 

Mostly joking. Hard to dislike the nation that gave us monster trucks and Space Shuttles. That loop on Boston is genuinely the most tedious activity ever recreated in a game, though, so definite minus points for that.

 

I thought it was still bashing the English language or have we skipped to a tangent

 

I think we're all just having a laugh here, at least I was, trying to make the best of a pretty meaningless thread.

 

I don’t believe that the US has made the the English language better. We British moan like heck about “Americanisms” creeping into the language. However, many of these so called Americanisms are actually English words that were in the common language of the British settlers many centuries ago.

In the meantime, the British English language has evolved certain words and phrases whereas they haven’t changed in American English (e.g. pants/trousers. Sidewalk/pavement) Therefore it is the British that have evolved the language. Of course, quite often, the original words, including my examples are more logical in the original so developments may not necessarily be an improvement.

Of course, there are probably other words and phrases that have evolved in America and not Britain. So, come on Americans, give me some examples and prove me wrong (OK Mall may not be as logical as Shopping Centre but it is certainly more efficient).

I suppose the point I am trying to make, hopefully in a light hearted way, is that the language was a common one prior to 1620 and both have developed in their own way over the centuries.

 

Don't forget that other countries, Australia, New Zealand, the Indian subcontinent and Canada, for example, have their own versions of the language and have many unique words and phrases that make it more colorful.

 

Got to laugh that the OP has long since gone and you're still banging on.
Why you feed these trolls is beyond me.

 

I don't think any of this thread past "why is is called a thread" was for his benefit. He probably wouldn't have a clue what we're all banging on about if he read it.

 

This is the phenomenon called thread drift

 

Mall isn't an americanism, they just applied it to strips of shops... It's always meant a sheltered walkway or promenade and comes from the 1600s. Need to watch more Countdown!

 

It doesn’t really matter. He said he was leaving the forum a week or two ago.

 

Or, appropriately, a full-on thread derailment.

 

Tangential to the language discussion, I once looked up out of curiosity how our American accent evolved from the English accent, and found that the thinking apparently is that it actually worked the other way around, and the original English accent sounded like ours.

 

Love how this thread is turning out. What a beautiful Sunday

 

People actually think-

Wow.
I really wish I had some of them- erm, people, on this thread so I could ask them:

How the hell can the English accent possible have came from the American- they existed before them. Americans are a massive mix of French, English, Spanish (based on where), and yet they say the English accent came from them.

Oh, god bless America...

 

It seems there is, weirdly, a tiny sliver of truth in there, as the wealthy British settlers deliberately adjusted their pronunciation of words to distance themselves from the commoners, so some older English language sounds which endured in American, more or less left British English entirely. Obviously what we've been given here is the Hollywood version, where everyone in America is now a world-saving superhero version of Shakespeare and the British have become an island of uneducated, muttering gibbons (ignoring the fact that both countries are an ever-evolving hodge-podge of intermingled accents and Americans still can't say Aluminium).

 

No, not came from ours, but sounded like ours. Then, as Factor41 said above minus the hyperbole, the British upper class changed the way they spoke. Some interesting reading:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29761/when-did-americans-lose-their-british-accents

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/where-did-the-american-accent-come-from.html

 

There are so many British accents and so many American accents that it’s hard to pick one that is representative of either. We even invented one accent especially for presenters on the BBC and that doesn’t exist naturally but is seen as ‘the’ British accent overseas. Thanks to the habit of parents shoving their children in front of Youtube to keep them quiet before their accent has developed more and more kids over here are growing up sounding more American and the language nuances are also taking hold more than ever. The word “gotten” has now returned to the UK after being largely absent for a very long time, as is saying “Get off of the floor” instead of “Get off the floor.” Once people start saying “bring” when they mean “take” when describing taking something somewhere the transition will be complete.

 

I doubt that many americans could understand some of the local accents in the UK let alone dialects. Last study I saw said that some english accents were able to be pinponted to a few square miles and the accent a few miles away would be different, and sometimes not slightly.
The problem with relying on TV and film of supplying your knowledge of how people speak is that only those who are understandable by the masses tend to get on air. Those who speak yokel, or worse, don't get on

We don't all speak like the queen, or Daniel Craig

 

Why this discussion? English is the international language of the world for a reason. Q colonial backlash!

As for Americans improving the English language? They can’t even pronounce the letter Z correctly for gawds sake.

Edit…. Or route for that matter.