Word analysis... independence ...in dependence?
By vanny
@vandana7 (99882)
India
6 responses
@LindaOHio (170715)
• United States
4 Jul
English is very confusing. For example, words that sound the same such as wait and weight. I would hate to be a foreigner and have to learn English. Have a good day.
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@LindaOHio (170715)
• United States
4 Jul
@vandana7 Thank you very much. I would never laugh at you that way. I might because I find your accent delightful.
@porwest (85053)
• United States
4 Jul
Consider as well that sometimes similar spellings have different pronunciations. Choose is of course pronounced like chews, and chose is pronounced like those, but lose is pronounced like choose even though it's spelled like chose.
House is pronounced like blouse but rouse is pronounced rooz. Snow is pronounced like no but plow is pronounced like how.
Then there's I before E except after C, which actually is not true at all when you consider words like weird, heir, neighbor, freight and so on and so forth.
The English language is not only complicated, but also intricate. Part of it MAY be that English is a bit of a hybrid of sorts of many different languages.
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@kaylachan (65344)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
3 Jul
I could say the same about one that is not my mother tongue. However, English borrows a lot of its words from other languages, which doesn't help.
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@vandana7 (99882)
• India
4 Jul
How true. But let me give you an interesting example. Our language has a default addition of oo after words. So we use English words, and add oo to it, for locals to comprehend. Size becomes size oo, boat becomes boat oo. LOL Regional words are there, but most people are so accustomed to using the oo language now, few remember all original words. LOL
@RasmaSandra (77609)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
3 Jul
From the Internet
The noun 'independence' has its roots in the Latin language, specifically from the combination of 'in,' meaning 'not,' and 'dependentia,' which comes from 'dependere,' meaning 'to hang down' or 'to rely upon.'
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