I see quite often spanish words spelled with the letter "k" instead of the correct "qu". e.g.\n \n"ke" instead of "que"\n"kasa" instead of "casa"\n\nI find this abhorrent and a an annoying modernism, but I would still like to know:\n\n(1) Is this an accepted evolution of the language?\n(2) Do you find it acceptable?\n(3) Is this country dependant (i.e. Latin America, Spain, etc)
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K is actually a very rare letter is Spanish and is oficially used in very few words, all of foreign origin (kilo, poker...) \n\nOn the other hand, it is a very common word in the Basque language (Euskera). In the 1980s, young people from left-wing groups supporting Basque separatism started using the "very Basque" K when spelling Spanish words, most notably in the phrase "mili kaka" (which rougly translates as "conscription is crap"). So using K instead of C became  a form of rebelliousness. Besides, music groups such as "Soziedad Alkoholika" or "Kortatu", both from the Basque Country, contributed to spread this new spelling.\n\nIn the 1990s, the new usage of K spread to young people who didn't actually care about the Basque Country, but just wanted to look rebellious or cool.\n\nNowadays, K is used instead of C or QU by most Spanish teenagers when sending SMS or chatting. It is simply trendy, but officially, this usage is still incorrect.
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I think it is a little extreme, but I can understand the frustration.  Here in Texas, I get annoyed when people of Hispanic origin refuse to learn English, and our society and government enables them to do this by not requiring immigrants to learn english, and even forcing government employees to speak spanish.  Also, our local and national businesses learn spanish to accomodate those who do not speak our language.\n\nI am all for immigration....that is what the makes the U.S. An intresting place to live, but I doubt that if I moved to Mexico or Spain or any other spanish speaking country, that they would learn english to accomadate me.  I understand why they would not....pride in their culture...we have the same and would appreciate immigrants having enough respect to learn it.  After all, it is free from our government.  \n\nSo, I guess my final thought on your question is that I agree that it is a little extreme to forbid it, but at the same time, I see why and understand the reason.\n\nTake care and God bless.
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The people on here drive me nuts! The misspelled word that is bothering me the most today is becoz, it is harder to type it incorrectly than to spell it how it is supposed to be spelled. It is so annoying!!!!!
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Because most Romance languages (any language based loosely on Latin) do not end their words with a hard consonantal sound. The hard "k", "r" and "g" are the biggest offenders.The speakers add the vowel at the end simply because their mouths don't know how not to...
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1. "r" is soft, and "rr" is hard. And yes, they really sound different. (eg  pero = but, perro = dog; caro = expensive, carro = car)\n2. it's pronounce like the "g" in general or like "y" \n3. j always sounds like "h" (a little harder though) in hello.\n   ga, go gu sounds the same as in english. ge, gi sonds like j in spanish, like "h" in english.\n   ch always sounds like ch in cheese.\n4. there aren't any spanish native words beggining with "w", but it sounds like "gu"\n5. therre's no difference in pronunciation between "v" and "b" in spanish, they sound like "b" in english
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my first language is also Spanish, but that doesn't mean that people need to warn me before the tell a joke, in fact, that would spoil the joke for me. If you haven't got a sense of humour, that is up to you, but don't try to pretend that we are all like that. And for god's sake, as a Spanish speaker lady I can assure you that we don't need anyone to marry us before they can make us fly, as you said
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Guilty. Además se dice, guilty or not guilty.\n\nSi fuera inocente, no hubiera huído, lo que pasa es que tuvo mucho dinero y contrató un buen abogado.\n\nSorry que te conteste en pocho, pero me es más fácil.\n\nUna pregunta, sin que me lo tomes a mal, veo que preguntas en inglés y tienes respuestas, pero ¿no sería mejor que para tus preguntas entraras a inglés, hay muchas opciones, de EUA, de Inglaterra, etc. y contestas en español? así tendrías máqs de lo que aquí tienes.
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Unfortunately, Welsh is not a language that has been able to evolve, primarily because it's celtic roots weren't that good at concepts.  So, yes, you get words like Telyfision (can you guess what that is?) which is ridiculous, because that is simply misspelling two Latin words.\n\nIt keeps the Welsh happy though, and probably away from the sheep.
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it's not the bad spelling. it's just that it doesn't make any sense. try to listen to it again. maybe by the second one you hear "kiries kai kirioi" which means " ladies and gentlemen" . sounds close enough
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Quite good, though try not to transalte literally. Most times, it doesn't work.\n\nHola. Soy estudiante de español, y acabo de escribir un parrafo en español y me gustaría que lo LEYESEN/LEYERAN y me DIESEN/DIERAN SU VALORACIÓN/OPINIÓN -especialmente los HISPANOHABLANTES, como POR EJEMPLO, SI hay frases extrañAs, ETC.. - no soy HISPANOHABLANTE y no tengo mucha fluidez. ( LA SIGUIENTE HISTORIA ES MÁS LARGA, pero hay un límite de palabras aquí.)\n\nDe repente Fernando, que estaba hablando por teléfono, se puso muy corpulento?!?!? y enojado y dijo, "No me digas eso, Juan, amigo. No me digas eso. Cuando yo te dirijo?!?!?! (DIGO) que el proyecto se debe completar en mayo..." Aquí se calló, y todos en la oficina se callaron también.\n\n"Nativos" sounds in spanish like,"Hi! I'm a sioux or a cheyenne.." so don't use it. Guess it's literal translation from "native-speakers". Wrong. If anything, might be similar to "autoctonous".\n\n"Corpulento" means tough-guy, strong man, Hulk Hogan, heheeehe. Doesn't really fit in the paragraph, does it?\n\n"Retro-alimentación". Literal translation from feed-back, uh?. Nope, looks weird. Perhaps you found that word in the dictionary but no-one speaks like that. In fact, a few people would rather say "feed-back", but 99% of the  times we just say something like give me your view, opinion, correct me, etc..\n\n**********************************\n\nTake an exam; "hacer un examen", or "examinarse" (verb; yo me examino, tu te examinas, él se examina..)\n\n"Retro-alimentación" issue; YES, your teacher is WRONG. Tell him I said that. :) Don't try to translate feed-back, it's impossible, believe me!!!
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Either people are lazy or folks just don't care about spelling.\n\nI go back and forth on this one.\n\nOn one hand I feel that if the purpose of language is to express a thought and a misspelled word does so just as well as one that is spelled correctly then no harm is done.\n\nOn the other hand I think that we go through life in modern society being judged on the quality of our work and people will make decisions about us based upon our use of language.\n\nHalf of one, six dozen of the other, I guess.
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It looks like people are focusing on the ORIGINS of the silent letters more than any "purpose" or value to them.  Well the two are connected.\n\nSilent letters are largely the result of:\n\na) changes in pronounciation AFTER the spelling was established  (e.g., in OLD English the k and gh of 'knight' were pronounced, as the related German word "Knecht" continues to pronounce them).       The changes may be large ones where entire sounds are  lost to the language (like the loss of the /gh/ sound of Old English), or small shifts from things like where the accent falls in a word (which is the origin of  many chnages in vowel sound, including silent vowels).\n\nb) borrowing words from MANY different languages with different spelling conventions and/or with distinctions that may not exist (and so ultimately are lost) in English.\n\nc) trying to use the Latin alphabet witch lacks single letters for many sounds found in English (esp. vowel sounds)\n\nSo in most cases, those who established the spelling of English words did not intentionally include silent letters!   And the 'decision' to keep the old spelling after the pronunciation changed was usually tradition/habit.     Nevertheless, keeping the older spellings DOES\n\n------------------\n\n"Purposes" (or values) in silent letters:\n\n1) The 'magic e' of words like "cane" and "code" --originally it was pronounced separately, but now it helps to mark the first vowel as "long" (and so to distinguish these words from "can" and "cod").  Some prefer not to label this use of e as "silent e" because it DOES have an effect on the pronunciation.\n\n\nSomething similar might be said for doubled letters -- technically only one is pronounced, but the doubling helps to mark the preceding vowel as short. Compare 'hoped' (with  the 'magic e') and 'hopped' (with the double consonant).\n\n2) Help us distinguish words that sound the same:  night/knight,  in/inn,  lent/leant.\n\n3) Silent letters may keep a record of part of the word's history.    Keeping the spelling may help to show us relationships between words: when  'soft' adds '-en' (-> soften) the 't' become silent, but we can see that the words are related (cf. haste > hasten; oft > often; fast [meaning 'secure'] > fasten; nest > nestle);  lean > leant (not 'lent');  in other cases, the suffixed form pronounces a letter that is silent in the simple form  damn (with silent n) > damnable;  vehicle (silent h) > vehicular (restores the h because it is in the accented syllable).   Incidentally, learning words as PAIRS or clusters (soft WITH soften) can make it much easier to get the correct spelling for the one with a silent letter\n\nThis is also useful when learning foreign languages (like learning to read French or German and RECOGNIZING related English words from the spelling) or other English words borrowed from foreign languages.   \n\n4) Some letters are commonly silent in certain English dialects, not in others (e.g., initial h-  or final -r);  keeping the same spelling, even if our own dialect treats a letter as silent makes it possible for us to communicate across English dialects.  (These dialectal/accent differences, by the way, are a MAJOR barrier to "spelling reform", because it would only really work for some groups, and make the written word totally confusing and non-phonetic for many others.)\n\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_letter\n\na list of common silent letters in English\nhttp://www.learnenglish.org.uk/grammar/archive/silentletters01.html
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There are some definite changes that need to be made but you got bad advice from the other poster!  \n\nYo ME LEVANTO en la manana porque yo tengo que despertar A mi hermano para la escuela.  Mi made dice, "Haz la cama!"\n\nYo ME lavo la cara con jabon y agua antes de MAQUILLARME.  Yo ME DUCHO y uso el champu y jabon.  Yo me visto. \n\nYo pongo la mesa y como desayuno con mi hermano.  Yo debo DAR DE COMER A MI PERRO.\n\nYo ME cepillo los dientes con LA pasta de dientes.  Yo voy a la escuela rapidamente.\n\nYou need an upside down exclamation point before "haz", a tilde on the first n in manana and accents on:\nthe o of jabon\nthe u of champu\nthe a of rapidamente\n\nHope this helps!
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If you start trying to figure the origin of English spelling, you will drive yourself mad in no time.  Go back more than a couple of hundred years and spelling was not very standardized.  Judging by what I see in Yahoo Answers, go forward a few years, and standardization will be gone.\n\nGenerally, English is not spelled the way it sounds, like Spanish and some other languages.  But the fault is not (directly) with Latin, because Latin was (as far as we know) much more consistent in pronunciation.  That's why so-called romance languages (languages like Spanish) are much more consistent than English, which has adapted words from many, many different languages.\n\nRE: romance languages.  How does French fit into this?  The French only pronounce about half their letters!
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ur preaching 2 th quire.\n\nSorry. I have asked and answered this question several times myself, and just can't seem to wrap my mind around what some of the others are saying.\n\nI have heard that the prevalence of this so-called SMS language is because the young minds on this site (and others) are so thirsty for information that they cannot take time to properly phrase their Q's or A's. I cry "shenanigans." Anyone with a full QWERTY keyboard in front of them has no excuse. \n\nI've also heard that this is an "evolution" of the language, and that if "ppl" understand what is being written, what's the problem? I've got to say that I have a hard time parsing some of the gibberish I read here, so what's the response to that?\n\nWithout clear communication the system breaks down. It's as clear as that. We need more emphasis on clearly getting our thoughts across using the standards that we have agreed on (English spelling and grammar).\n\nI can't say it enough times: I agree, I agree, I agree.\n\nLoved the book, by the way. I even gave a copy to my Dad for Christmas. The sound of irony was deafening.
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You might not agree, but it was against the community guidelines for this site.\nUSE ENGLISH ONLY: Please do not use other languages. Also, spelling and grammar count! Be sure to check your spelling and grammar, as content that is unreadable due to excessive typos may also be deleted. \n\nEveryone gets upset when they receive a violation, but we all have guidelines to follow with this site.  Stay within the guidelines so people can't report you and you'll be fine!\n\n1/2 of it was in Spanish---that was the problem.  Unfortunately there are people on this site that will report any little thing.  It's not worth getting upset over--don't let it get to you!
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I live in Spain and find it difficult to accept the Tourists that come here and try pronouncing Spanish correctly, its so annoying, I am English but lived here for over 4 years and have a good knowledge of the Spanish language, I'm not perfectly fluent yet, but I am fairly good,  I do at least know how to pronounce Spanish correctly.  So I know what you mean.