Language Oddities

[A Black Falcon]

Oh I have one thing to add here. If there's no year zero, then not only are the decades "wrong", but the year itself is wrong! It shouldn't even be 2008 right now but 2007! Think about that.

You know, a while ago I realized that decades and centuries are all wrong too... if there's no year zero, why do decades and centuries start on the zero year too?

Silent letters.

Bomb
Dumb
Plumb


Thumb makes sense, because you often here people say the B at the end, but it's still retarded. The entire french language is retarded and somehow we get the rejected words with silent non-sounds for absolutely no reason. Then you have unnecessary letters like in the words 'Although' or 'thought' which again, ('which' is also retarded) makes no god damn (N + M = M sound!?) sense.

Sandwitch? Nope. Sandwhich. Still not there. It's a sandwich.

Wich, however, is not used in any way other than in the word sandwich even though (!) it's the exact same phonetically as Which and Which, so why not just use Wich? because people are dum and would get confused if they read that the evil wich tried to steal Dorothy's shoes, wich contain magical powers.

This is why I purposely misspell things as much as possible, I'm eeting, the dumass threw a bom, weet bred, I thot it was altho i cude be rong.

Fuck you Webster.

Silent letters do have meaning though, either by telling you how to pronounce the other words in the sentence or for historical reasons... I don't like the idea of getting rid of them. Sure English has bizarre spelling rules, but it's a language with the largest number of words of any language ever, and assimilates or creates new words all the time... we don't exactly have the equivilent of a French Academy to choose which words are in and which are out and how to spell them properly.

As for calendar, indeed, there's no real reason to switch when what we have works well enough.

Whatever your opinion on christianity may be, for practical reasons we really should just stick with the current year system. CE and BCE have commonely replaced BC and AD, so there's that. The technical hurdle alone would be crazy to deal with. We can devise a new one for when we land on Mars, and we will in fact be forced to as Mars years are longer (unlike dog and cat years, because contrary to popular belief cats and dogs revolve around the sun in roughly the same amount of time it takes humans to). Currently we don't really have a calendar system in place for Mars, but upon landing on it we could easily set up a Martian calendar starting with year 0 AC (after colonization, as in my cheaply made space novel/love story/political intrigue novellette).

Yeah, and sci-fi stories usually have different calendars on different planets, though there is frequently also some kind of standard calendar they can all compare to for precise date comparisons. It makes sense that you'd need both.