Out of curiosity..

[fancyf]

Compat_ble printer ink cartridges.

Ah! Nope..

What's with this word?

Compatable [sic] : [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

I've seen so many of you guys write it that way. I've always loved languages & as lots of you know, english is not my first language. So I thought it was another accepted way to write it... but seems like it isn't.

Google results for compatable: 391,000

[mireland]

English has got to be the stupidest language in the world..I.E take the word queue as in "Printer queue" what the hell is up with the extra "ue" they serve no purpose??!!! oh and for irony check out the word "monosyllable"

[fancyf]

Well queue is a french word.. faire la queue - wait in line.
So it kinda makes sense

I just thought it was strange that so many ppl write "compatable"...
so you write compatable or compatible, mireland?

[mireland]

Originally posted by fancyf
Well queue is a french word.. faire la queue - wait in line.
So it kinda makes sense

I just thought it was strange that so many ppl write "compatable"...
so you write compatable or compatible, mireland?

well..I think I spell it compatable..cuz that makes more sense to me....so I was spelling it wrong all this time, oh well...

[mireland]

also I'd just like to say that words should be spelled like they sound.....You know..like the word GO..see how it ISN'T spelled GOUGHEOUE???

[ScaryBinary]

Here's another goodie:

seperate [sic]: 2,530,000

When I get elected President, the first thing I'm doing is getting rid of the letters "C" and "X" (sorry, I guess you'd have to be "fansyf" and I'd have to be "SkaryBinary").

The second thing I'm doing is takin' this country METRIC (of course, it would be METRIK by the time I was through).

[fancyf]

Originally posted by mireland
also I'd just like to say that words should be spelled like they sound.....You know..like the word GO..see how it ISN'T spelled GOUGHEOUE???

"eu" sound + e (because of gender)

queue --> feminine
voeu (means wish) --> masculine

either way it won't make more sense to you so there you go. I guess it only leaves changing it for an english word

[RamonGTP]

compatable makes more sense than queue IMO.

[fancyf]

Originally posted by ScaryBinary
Here's another goodie:

seperate [sic]: 2,530,000

When I get elected President, the first thing I'm doing is getting rid of the letters "C" and "X" (sorry, I guess you'd have to be "fansyf" and I'd have to be "SkaryBinary").

The second thing I'm doing is takin' this country METRIC (of course, it would be METRIK by the time I was through).

I could better see someone saying seperate than compatable.
Someone make me a wav file that says compatable... lol

hmm so why C and X?

fansyf... hmm doesn't look right

[fancyf]

Originally posted by RamonGTP
compatable makes more sense than queue IMO.

hmm and why?

while we're there, why not: convertable

[ukulele]

English was never meant to be written or read by ordinary people. It was a way that the aristocrats (yes there were more then just French aristocrats in spite of what they say) could keep the common folk from figuring out what was going on in the government or courts. You had to be educated to be able to read English or French for that matter. In some ways the French were even worse off. They had a double meaning for common phrases to fool the uneducated in a court of law.

[mireland]

Originally posted by fancyf


"eu" sound + e (because of gender)

queue --> feminine
voeu (means wish) --> masculine

either way it won't make more sense to you so there you go. I guess it only leaves changing it for an english word

all human language needs to be made less complicated by using LESS letters and elimenating(sic--lol) all unneccessary(sic--lol) letters(like X for example ) and I really don't give a rip on the history as to why a word is spelled the way it is..

[Steve R Jones]

com·pat·i·ble (km-pt-bl)
adj.

Capable of existing or performing in harmonious or agreeable combination.

Capable of being grafted, transfused, or transplanted from one individual to another without reaction or rejection.

Capable of forming a chemically or biochemically stable system.

***Note the correct spelling above. One "A" and an "I".

[fishybawb]

The English language is just weird (note the e before the i ). Sew, so, sow, their, they're, there, the list goes on. At least there are no "genders" when it comes to the nouns I suppose. A table's feminine in French and masculine in German. In English it's just wood

[ScaryBinary]

Originally posted by fancyf
hmm so why C and X?

Well, "S" can be used for a "soft C" (like in "fancy") and "K" can be used for a "hard C" (like in "Scary"). Then "KS" or "Z" could be used for "X" (like "foks" versus "fox", and "zylophone" versus "xylophone").

Here's a really confusing overhaul of English....