Guys, what do you suppose they were smoking when they invented the English language?

[Gummy_Cluster]

Leader: OK, so I think, "I AM hungry. She IS hungry. And they ARE hungry.

Tom: Can't we all just be hungry?

Leader: Stop being stupid! That doesn't even make sense.

[RavVid]

Sadly spelling was standardized early because England got onto the printing press earlier than other countries. Then the Great Vowel Shift happened which changed how words were pronounced. Great work to do that after you have standardized spelling.

So it was more what they were smoking afterwards. The whole bloody country. Though thinking more I believe gin consumption was very high back then. So the whole country was probably sozzled drunk. I'm going go with that explanation as the most reasonable. Spelling would be a lot easy if it had been standardized after the drunken sozzled vowel shift.

Dr Samuel Johnson deserves an honorable mention for being a smart arse and deciding that in his dictionary the spelling would reflect the Greek/Latin/French roots not how it was spoken. Fuckwit.

[SnowedIn]

Gummy, gummy, gummy, gummy. They were not "smoking". They were vaporously consuming the by products of combustion of their plant-based materials.

And I was hungry.

[Gummy_Cluster]

LOL Yes, you was hungry, but Mrs. Show IS hungry, and your two hamsters ARE hungry.
And if you ask me what my pronouns are, I would have to say, blue and purple, but mostly blue.

[SnowedIn]

That's interesting.

My daughter came home from school one day last year. We were in the kitchen talking with her older brothers. One of them talked about how their classmate had changed pronouns. My daughter (smart girl she is) rolled her eyes and said, "That's nothing. I identify as an attack helicopter."

[Gummy_Cluster]

She sounds like a chip off the old block. Good for her.
The next phase will be identifying as any race you want.
After that it will be identifying as any animal you want.

Cop: I need to see your license and registration.
Human: I'm a monitor lizard, and the DMV won't' give me a license.
Cop: Oh, crap, I wasn't aware. Have a nice day Ms Lizard.


I knew a guy who had a home in America and Thailand. Him and his wife flew back and forth to both. He showed me pics of a bar, where these giant lizards were right below the deck of the bar.
I don't know why they were there, but maybe customers threw food out for them. But I very much want to go there and talk to the lizards. From what I've seen in the movies, all creatures in the galaxy can understand English, but you just need to talk slowly.

Hello... Mr. Lizard... What... does... it... mean?

[SnowedIn]

Right. It's pretty cool that the Klingons and Romulans (who hate humans) fluently spoke the Earth/Federation language.

One of my sons is ahead of us: he identifies as a Penguin. His teachers didn't find it funny.

[Gummy_Cluster]

The teacher is obviously a penguin racist! I would love to have a pet penguin. Would I have to keep it in the refrigerator? That kind of sounds mean, but maybe at night he might like it. I'll put it on my list of questions to ask.

[SnowedIn]

... well, cold can mean frigid and frigid can mean hard and this GaG so therefore it is liked.

[shortster]

They were drunk on French wine.

[Gummy_Cluster]

Something was not quite right, so you might be correct.

[shortster]

Both French and English are bastardized by each other.

[Gummy_Cluster]

Those Rat bastards.

[exitseven]

Probably yesterday's bull shit.