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As it stands, "sorry" is most definitely not the hardest word
at all. It's just a disyllabic alternation of vowels and
consonants. Maybe if the person saying it couldn't
pronounce their R's properly it would help, but for most
people apologising is far too easy. The recipient of that
apology
should feel that the person concerned has put
some effort into their attempt to make amends. As it
stands it's like getting a leaky bic as a birthday present.
Therefore, the word "sorry" should be replaced with a
polysyllabic word full of consonant clusters using sounds
not otherwise present in the English language and
notoriously hard to pronounce. I provisionally suggest that
the word "sorry" should become something like "
`Nm/!qörlrlr(female symbol)(female symbol without the
horizontal bar)... " and proceed in that fashion for about
thirty syllables, and that it should be changed every week
for an equally hard to pronounce word, and the former
word be changed to mean something like "f*** you". Similar
things should also be done to a lesser extent to words like
"please" and "thank you".
It's only fair.
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The "click" language of the West African Bushmen is notoriously difficult to master. Some Eastern European languages have syllabic constructions that even those born as native speakers rarely master before their teenage years. |
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But the obvious source is welsh, which has the dubious advantage that the written form* has no resemblance to the spoken form - which is unpronounceable - and has a minuscule vocabulary**. |
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*Developed by the English as a means of cheap amusement at the expense of whingeing taffs. |
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** welsh has a total vocabulary of 7 words, corresponding to "Rain", "Mud", "Rock", "Grass", "Cold", "Rugby" and "Sheep" *** |
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*** Scholars initially beleived there to be 8 words, until it was conclusively shown by research that the words for "Sheep" and "Sexual partner" were the same. |
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Bell curve. Some people will be better at saying the word than others irrelevant of how much morality is needed. It is better to wait for evolution to continue humanities progression and allow people to think properly through their sorry. This step up would therefore recover meaning. |
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// is better to wait for evolution to continue humanities progression // |
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You've only got a few billion years before your primary evolves into a Red Giant and makes your planet uninhabitable. |
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At the current rate of "progress", you don't have time. |
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How about including at least one syllable represented by the sound of a tablespoon struck vigorously against the forehead? |
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