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RE: The letter "Q" - 11/1/2006 1:27:42 PM   
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this is the kind of stuff my and my friend talk about, everyone thinks we are on drugs . but letter "Q" thing you have WAY to much time on your hands, go fly a kite or something.


No, not really. If I had more time on my hands, I would have totally rewritten the English alphabet. The letter "Q" would not be the only letter attacked. I would also attack the letter "C" since it too is redundand and reproduces sounds of the letter "K" and the letter "S." I would dedicate the lettter "C" to only make the "CH" sound. The letter "K" would relpace all the hard K sounds. "C" would never agan make the "K" and "S" sounds. For ezample: cat would be rewritten and kat. Science would be rewritten as siens. Notice that I eliminated the redundant "c" right after "s."

Another thing, I would eliminate "ugh" in our spelling. What are we doing to our kids by confusing them with such ridiculous and moronic spelling conventions? Cough, tough, laugh, though, thoroughly, etc. Why the hell do we spell these words with "ugh"? It confuses our children when we are trying to teach them to spell. On a lesser note, it wastes ink and paper space. We should rewrite these words as Cof, Tuf, Laf, thoroly,etc. Again, these rewritings look utterly silly, but they are more practical and concise. Whoever in anceint history decreed that "Thous shalt spell many words with 'ugh'" should have been stoned in the tradition of his time.

As far as flying a kite, I am not a kite fan but I do enjoy running my Savage truck. By the way, I wouuld rewrite Savage as Savaj



you mean kof right


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RE: The letter "Q" - 11/2/2006 1:10:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		If take the 'gh' in cough, the 'o' in women, the 'ti' in position and put them together then

ghoti would be pronounced fish.

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RE: The letter "Q" - 11/2/2006 1:20:52 AM   
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If take the 'gh' in cough, the 'o' in women, the 'ti' in position and put them together then

ghoti would be pronounced fish.


LOL That's good! I like that!


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RE: The letter "Q" - 11/2/2006 11:07:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		u need the Q if u spell "quality" like this "kality" it sounds bad unless u use a W like "kwality" ure right back where u started.

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RE: The letter "Q" - 11/3/2006 10:24:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		duratrax names lots of their products with the above logic, but I don't know if they do it for the same reason. EX "duratrax kwik ramp, or the "kwik pit mini power pannel". they're on tower that way.

but that thing about ghoti = fish... LOL! good point.

so, in theory, would "X" be omitted? cuz I guess duratrax could just be spelled duratracks...? Exactly could be egzactly, axe could be acks, xylophone could be zylophone, and HPI "X" pattern tires could be ... uh, ecks pattern tires... hmm. I think we should keep "X" just for HPI's sake!

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RE: The letter "Q" - 11/4/2006 11:30:39 AM   
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Status: offline 		Absolutey, the letter "eks" is aalso redundant (sorry, my "eks" button is broken, I've been resorting to using the "Z" button on my computer instead). Personally, I wouldnt eliminate it since it would take more letters to type the sound it produces.

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RE: The letter "Q" - 11/4/2006 12:06:24 PM   
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i see what you mean, i remember thinking "why the hell cant you spell it like you say it?" when i was younger, i personally think the english language is boring, old and needs help, i think the whole world is boring, old and needs help (apart from japan, cus they make robots.... and australia because they have kangaroos and kangaroos are funny...) so i want to find my own island and make my own language called foamyspeek... possibly consisting mostly of Grunts, snarls, growls and a range of eye, tounge and hand movements (the good ol "Magic Finger" will still be included )

but i see what you mean, most people think im on drugs when i think of a madcrack idea, but some of the words should be kept as they are, they just look better, are shorter to type (eks / X) and sound more butch...

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RE: The letter "Q" - 11/5/2006 3:53:22 AM   
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Status: offline 		wild foamy that was pretty funny, actually made me laugh to myself. i have kinda created my own language, developed in gr 8 between me and a good friend. letters and words are spelled out using an intricate system of clicks taps and whistles. mainly used to cheat and communicate during tests or exams in school ....it did not involve the letter Q or X either

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RE: The letter "Q" - 11/5/2006 5:12:17 AM   
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wild foamy that was pretty funny, actually made me laugh to myself. i have kinda created my own language, developed in gr 8 between me and a good friend. letters and words are spelled out using an intricate system of clicks taps and whistles. mainly used to cheat and communicate during tests or exams in school ....it did not involve the letter Q or X either


That's pretty funny, you criminal

I'd like to hear how your communication language goes (is it like Morse code?). That must truely be brilliant if you were able to use it to cheat on tests successfuly.

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RE: The letter "Q" - 11/5/2006 2:25:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		My mothers family name is Quarg. It starts with a Q but has a U after that. I don't know any other word that has a Q without a U after that.

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RE: The letter "Q" - 11/6/2006 5:20:30 AM   
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Status: offline 		lol.... i have to admit that i was stumped and thought that frank had discovered an anomiley in our counting methods followed by a cover up that 7 elevens are more greedy then frank himself... Now i know the true anser but i don't want ot beleave it... anyways

Ok this is the same entence changing things the way that jim wants

lol.... i hav to admit that i was stumped and thout that frank had discoverd an anomily in our counting methods follod by a covor up that 7 elevns are more greedy then frank himself... Now i kno the tru anser but i don't want ot belev it... anywas...
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Excus me, i now have to go to my room, lock the dore, hide in the closet and contimplate the meaning of life, darwinism,pluto not being a planet, trying to see how fast light moves, twinkies, how they ever came up with stickey notes, pluto the planet, and then i'll recap on how twinkies are 98% perservitive and 1% suger...

do oyu think you cna ever get addicted to being confused... ?

or have you ever seen a post with more of thease...

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RE: The letter "Q" - 11/6/2006 6:27:34 PM   
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i think the whole world is boring, old and needs help (apart from japan, cus they make robots.... and australia because they have kangaroos and kangaroos are funny...)


LOL ! that reminds me of Roger from (the game) Tekken. now HE's funny!


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RE: The letter "Q" - 11/7/2006 12:05:10 AM   
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Status: offline 		well savage jim. it was mostly used on multiple choice questions. we would use clicks or taps, the number of which dictated the question on which we needed help. then the person helping ( my buddy derek) would wistle one of 4 to 6 pre set (before teh test) tones. we had flat high, flat low, high to low. low to high, low high low, and high low high. it worked either way sometimes i clicked and tapped to request a certain question etc, also we used a simple wistle ( the one when you see some fly lookin chick walking down the street) to ask for a repeat tapping if one of us didnt catch the whole thing. that tapping was done inconspicuously like tapping your pencil against the desk like your "thinking"

this method worked quite well near the end of gr 8 and great on the gr9 exams both semesters. ive never been caught as of yet and soon to try it on the gr 10 exams

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RE: The letter "Q" - 11/7/2006 11:24:38 AM   
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Status: offline 		That is brilliant. When I was in high school, we did something similar ezcept that we would tap one time for "1", 2 for "b", 3 for "c" etc. we did not have a request for repeat. If you missed the code, you were out of luck. Our system was way simple and probably no where near as sophisiticated as yours.

We did get caught though. A really clever student teacher was helping our normal teacher give out the test and she caught on quite quickly where as our normal teacher never knew what was going on. He thought we were simply being annoying.

I personally was not caught since I was only listening in to get the answers. The code tapper got an F on the test and was suspended (it did not hurt him, he still got an A for the class). Luckily, I got most of the answers before our code tapper was busted.

Anyways, good luck on your coding in grade 10.


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RE: The letter "Q" - 11/7/2006 8:32:39 PM   
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