Now you know everything!

[Archangel Kid]

good god... now translate that in to ebonix

[Jack & Coke]

Originally posted by Archangel Kid
good god... now translate that in to ebonix

Having chosen English as da preferred language in da EEC, da European Parliament has commissioned uh feasability study in ways o' improving efficiency in communications between Government departments.

European officials gots often pointed out dat English spelling iz unnecessary difficult; fo' example: cough, plough, rough, through an' thorough. What iz clearly needed iz uh phased programme o' changes ta iron out deez anomalies. The programme would, o' course, be administered by uh committee staff at top level by participating nations.

In da first year, fo' example, da committee would suggest usin' 's' instead o' da soft 'c'. Sertainly, sivil servants in all sities would resieve dis here news wiff joy. Then da hard 'c' could be replaced by 'k' sinse both letters iz pronounsed alike. Not only would dis here klear up konfusion in da minds o' klerikal workers, but typewriters kould be made wiff one less letter.

There would be growing enthousiasm when in da sekond year, it wuz anounsed dat da troublesome 'ph' would henseforth be written 'f'.

This would make werdz like 'fotograf' tweny per sent shorter in print.

In da third year, publik akseptanse o' da new spelling kan be expekted ta reash da stage where mo' komplikated shanges iz possible. Governments would enkourage da removal o' double letters which gots always been uh deterent ta akurate speling.

We would al agre dat da horible mes o' silent 'e'sin da languag iz disgrasful. Therefor we's kould drop thes an' kontinu ta read an' writ as though nuttin' had hapend. By dis here tim it would be four years sins da skem began an' peopl would be reseptive ta steps sutsh as replasing 'th' by 'z'. Perhaps zen ze funktion o' 'w' kould be taken on by 'v', vitsh iz, afta al, half uh 'w'. Shortly afta zis, ze unesesary 'o kould be dropd from werdz kontaining 'ou'. Similar arguments vud o' kors be aplid ta ozer kombinations o' leters.

Kontinuing zis proses yer afta yer, ve vud eventuli hav uh reli sensibl riten styl. After tventi yers zer vud be nahh mor trubls, difikultis an' evrivun vud fin it ezi tu dig' ech ozer. Ze drems o' da Guvermnt vud finali hav kum tru. Wurd to yo mutha!

[Ghengis]

Pearl and Acid

Majority of a pearl consist of the group aragonite, a class of carbonates, and other trace elements. If you did you chemistry study well enough .. Carbonate reacts with Acid.

Vinegar is Acetic Acid (C2H4O2). Pearl (CaCO3)

2CH3COOH + CaCO3 => H2CO3 + Ca(CH3COO)2

H2CO3 (carbonic acid) is unstable in room temperature.. so it decomposes to H2CO3 => H2O + CO2(gas)

[Cryer]

Re: Pearl and Acid

Originally posted by Ghengis
Majority of a pearl consist of the group aragonite, a class of carbonates, and other trace elements. If you did you chemistry study well enough .. Carbonate reacts with Acid.

Vinegar is Acetic Acid (C2H4O2). Pearl (CaCO3)

2CH3COOH + CaCO3 => H2CO3 + Ca(CH3COO)2

H2CO3 (carbonic acid) is unstable in room temperature.. so it decomposes to H2CO3 => H2O + CO2(gas)

Ok, I understood up to "Majority of a pearl consists of..."
The rest, well... Lets just say that I'll have less of a problem with Jack & Coke's new English Language.

[Jack & Coke]

Re: Pearl and Acid

Originally posted by Ghengis

Vinegar is Acetic Acid (C2H4O2). Pearl (CaCO3)

2CH3COOH + CaCO3 => H2CO3 + Ca(CH3COO)2

H2CO3 (carbonic acid) is unstable in room temperature.. so it decomposes to H2CO3 => H2O + CO2(gas)

OWNED!




lol!

[Will Wood]

Originally posted by Jack & Coke
Implied?

The basic sentence consists of a verb and a subject.

Thus, the shortest complete sentence is two words.

"I am." only has three letters. Maybe that's why the email said it was the shortest sentence... I don't know, I didn't make up the fact...

Eh.. you must not have been listening in English class
I wasn't either.. but I do remember implied subjects.

"Go get the trash" (Or something like that)
[You] Go get the trash.
There was some messed up thing we had to do on sentance diagraming to fit in the implied subject. I hated it.

[Jonno06]

it could be (I) Go get the trash.

you cant really imply anything unless you are the one saying it. no one has any idea what they are thinking when they say it..its impossible.

[Jack & Coke]

Originally posted by Will Wood


Eh.. you must not have been listening in English class

LOL!

ALL COMPLETE sentences must have both a subject and a predicate (i.e. simple, complete, and compound). A verb is a simple predicate.

All this talk of "implied" stuff relates to "command" sentences. A "command" is the only type of sentence that has no subject. These are exceptions to the subject/predication rule, and are not concidered "complete" sentences. Without additional sentences, the "command" is meaningless and can not stand on it's own (as indicated by Jonno06).

[Will Wood]

Ok, talking to the English teacher tomarow. I'm still pretty confident you two are wrong lol.

It is a command.. so maybe you're right, if it's not considered a "real" sentance.


... You or I? Does it matter? Either way, they are both subjects...

Googled to help support:

[j.t.]

Will Wood is right I think. Im pretty sure I have been told by quite a few different english teachers that "Go!" IS considered a complete sentance.

[Archangel Kid]

Lol... thanks Jack & Coke for translating that for me ... not like I understand it... its just funny to read

[Jack & Coke]

Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

An atomic clock is accurate to within 1 second in 1,7 million years.

Thomas Cook, the world's first travel agency in the world, was founded in 1850.

A fathom is 1,8 metres (6 feet).

There are more TV sets in the US than there are people in the UK.

Before the year 1000, the word "she" did not exist in the English language. The singular female reference was the word "heo", which also was the plural of all genders. The word "she" appeared only in the 12th century, about 400 years after English began to take form. "She" probably derived from the Old English feminine "seo", the Viking word for feminine reference.

There are no letters assigned to the numbers 1 and 0 on a phone keypad. These numbers remain unassigned because they are so-called "flag" numbers, kept for special purposes such as emergency or operator services.

After the French Revolution of 1789 selling sour wine was considered against national interest and the merchant was promptly executed.

For 3000 years, until 1883, hemp was the world's largest agricultural crop, from which the majority of fabric, soap, paper, medicines, and oils were produced.

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew hemp. Ben Franklin owned a mill that made hemp paper. The US Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

The word malaria comes from the words mal and aria, which means bad air. This derives from the old days when it was thought that all diseases are caused by bad, or dirty air.

The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with.

On every continent there is a city called Rome.

The oldest inhabited city is Damascus, Syria.

The first city in the world to have a population of more than one million was London, which today is the 13th most populated city, with about 8 million residents.

The most populated city in the world - when major urban areas are included - is Tokyo, with 30 million residents.

Tokyo was once known as Edo.

The pin that holds a hinge together is called a pintle.

The Vatican is the world's smallest country, at 0,44 square km (0,16 square miles).

The US flag displays 13 stripes - for the original 13 states.

To most Americans, the orient is China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam; to Europeans it is the area of India and Pakistan.

The words "electronic mail" might sound new but was introduced 30 years ago. Queen Elizabeth of Britain sent her first email in 1976.

Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.

MasterCard was originally called MasterCharge. More at creditcards

Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

Lightning strikes men about seven times more often than it does women.

Women make up 49% of the world population.

About 50% of Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace. This is called propinquity.

The pleasant feeling of eating chocolate is caused by a chemical called anadamide, a neurotransmitter which also is produced naturally in the brain.

From the Middle Ages until the 18th century the local barber's duties included dentistry, blood letting, minor operations and bone-setting. The barber's striped red pole originates from when patients would grip the pole during an operation.

The US nickname Uncle Sam was derived from Uncle Sam Wilson, a meat inspector in Troy, New York.

The living does not outnumber the dead: since the creation about 60 billion people have died.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Midday refers to the moment the sun crosses the local meridian.

Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 metres.

It is not true that the Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure that can be viewed from space - many man-made objects, including the Dutch polders, can be viewed from space.

[The-Z-Man]

The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with. Except for South America

[lazyprzn]

ummm

umm z-man how bout North America?

[Jack & Coke]

War and disputes

The shortest war on record took place in 1896 when Zanzibar surrendered to Britain after 38 minutes.

The longest was the so-called 100-years war between Britain and France. It actually lasted 116 years, ending in 1453.

It was during the 100-years war that direct taxation on income was introduced, a British invention designed to finance the war with France.

The NATO attack on Serbia in 1999 during the Kosovo war killed more animals than people.

The very first bomb that the Allies dropped on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea. More

The first reference to a handgun was made in an order for iron bullets in 1326.

When killed in battle, Japanese officers were promoted to the next highest rank.

During the 1991 Gulf War, the Allies dropped more than 17,000 smart bombs and 210,000 dumb (unguided) bombs on Iraqi troops.

Chevy Chase was a battle that took place on the english-Scottish border in 1388.

Global spending on defence total more than $700 billion. Global spending on education is less than $100 billion.

Although the two-finger V for Victory sign is synonymous with Winston Churchill, it actually was the idea of a Belgian refugee in London, Victor De Laveleye.

The doors that cover US nuclear silos weigh 748 tons and opens in 19 seconds.

The first recorded revolution took place at around 2800 BC when people from the Sumerian city of Lagash overthrew bureaucrats who were lining their own pockets but kept raising taxes.

Since 1495, no 25-year period has been without war.

Since 1815 there has been 210 interstate wars.

During the Battle of Waterloo, Lord Uxbridge had his horse shot from under him 9 times.

In 1997, the US maintained 13,750 nuclear warheads, 5,546 of them on ballistic missiles.

In 1998, the US spent more than $35 billion on its nuclear weapons programme.

In 1997, the US exported $15,6 billion in arms to developing countries, 54% of which went to non-democratic regimes.

Chemical and biological warfare have been used long before World War 1. During the Peloponnesian War in the 5th century BC, Spartans used sulphur and pitch to overcome the enemy. During ancient and medieval times, soldiers sometimes threw bodies of plague victims over the walls of besieged cities, or into water wells. During the French and Indian wars in North America (1689-1763), blankets used by smallpox victims were given to American Indians in the hope they would carry the disease.