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Anonymous ID:BAARqEKz Thu 26 Apr 2018 19:12:00 No.4920229 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>4920272 >>4920299 >>4920312 >>4920361 >>4920730 >>4920780 >>4920795 >>4920868

English pros: Why is "to attend" spelled with two t but "to be afraid" only with one f?
It makes no fuckign sense desu

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Anonymous ID:c1CtQoPT Thu 26 Apr 2018 19:15:15 No.4920257 Report

Quoted By: >>4920536

Why are you saying "to attend" and "to be afraid" as though each is one word? The "to" and "to be" are completely irrelevant.

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Anonymous ID:oW2Bmwud Thu 26 Apr 2018 19:17:25 No.4920272 Report

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>>4920229
because they're completely different words desu

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Anonymous ID:9+cB/6rW Thu 26 Apr 2018 19:21:13 No.4920299 Report

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>>4920229
whats more of absurd is afraid comes from the obsolete verb affray which is spelt with two Fs. any language has something that doesn't make sense

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Anonymous ID:Kmm+JVDx Thu 26 Apr 2018 19:22:30 No.4920312 Report

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>>4920229
Just because

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:wUON09kO Thu 26 Apr 2018 19:24:51 No.4920340 Report

Quoted By: >>4920379 >>4920381 >>4920808 >>4922003

While we’re bitching:

>an apple
>a kidney
>an igloo
>a shoe
>an orb
>a dildo
>an history

Fucking why

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:A75WNxyn Thu 26 Apr 2018 19:27:12 No.4920361 Report

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>>4920229
Maybe has something to do with how attend has a short e while afraid has a long a sound

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Anonymous ID:EwoglmSe Thu 26 Apr 2018 19:28:45 No.4920377 Report

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for the same reason it would in german

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:A75WNxyn Thu 26 Apr 2018 19:28:57 No.4920379 Report

Quoted By: >>4920427

>>4920340
>an history
You sure that one's correct? I'm pretty sure you pronounce the H in history so it starts with a consonant sound, not a vowel sound.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:c1CtQoPT Thu 26 Apr 2018 19:29:14 No.4920381 Report

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>>4920340
"An history" is wrong, unless you're one of those retards that leaves h's off words. You'd use an if it's a word like hour.

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Anonymous ID:wUON09kO Thu 26 Apr 2018 19:34:36 No.4920427 Report

Quoted By: >>4920460

>>4920379
>>4920381

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Anonymous ID:A75WNxyn Thu 26 Apr 2018 19:38:06 No.4920460 Report

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>>4920427
I think it just depends on how you pronounce the word, like if you have a heavy British accent you might leave out the H while saying it

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Anonymous ID:ZFW5IWmw Thu 26 Apr 2018 19:46:36 No.4920536 Report

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>>4920257
That's probably do the way they conjugate in other Indo-European languages. For example in Spanish Brillar means "to shine," but I shine would be "Brillo" and you shine would be "Brillas." The closet translation in English is "To shine."

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Anonymous ID:1agK4DMp Thu 26 Apr 2018 20:04:40 No.4920696 Report

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because english makes no sense

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Anonymous ID:WPDjTVM2 Thu 26 Apr 2018 20:08:07 No.4920730 Report

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>>4920229
Half of this language makes no fucking sense, get used to it

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Anonymous ID:WPDjTVM2 Thu 26 Apr 2018 20:13:11 No.4920780 Report

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>>4920229
To answer your question, it's because "afraid" is a state of being and therefore has to have "be" in it. "Attend" is not a state of being so it's just "to attend".

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ByE93IGX Thu 26 Apr 2018 20:15:04 No.4920795 Report

Quoted By: >>4921057

>>4920229
English is a disgusting horror child of like three or four only distantly related languages, there’s a few glitches in the resulting language as a result. The good part is that you don’t have to get everything exactly right in order to be understood since the conjugation system is so simple.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:WPDjTVM2 Thu 26 Apr 2018 20:17:13 No.4920808 Report

Quoted By: >>4920899

>>4920340
>"an" in front of words that start with a vowel
>"a" in front of words that start with a consonant

It's actually one of the parts of English that makes complete sense

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:5ygKl69d Thu 26 Apr 2018 20:22:51 No.4920868 Report

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>>4920229
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rUWEGSEWbw

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:WPDjTVM2 Thu 26 Apr 2018 20:25:34 No.4920899 Report

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>>4920808
vowel and consonant sounds that is

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:ByE93IGX Thu 26 Apr 2018 20:40:44 No.4921057 Report

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>>4920795
>resulting as a result
Hey look, that’s that glitch I was talking about

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:rHYEQrHu Thu 26 Apr 2018 22:19:50 No.4922003 Report

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>>4920340
>an hero

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