Characters from Superhero Games Who Need Better Names

[Þorkell]

Originally Posted by ak_aramis

It's just been largely dropped from modern English. (

Together with the aggressive borrowing of various things from other languages English does seem like a clumsy oaf of a language.

[RyanW]

Originally Posted by Þorkell

Together with the aggressive borrowing of various things from other languages English does seem like a clumsy oaf of a language.

Þ et al are useful but English gets by without them with no problem. We gave up a few cool letters but don't have to worry about declension (except with pronouns, for some reason), and that's a trade I'll take any day.

Now, what we should have never abandoned is the second person singular.

[Þorkell]

Originally Posted by RyanW

Þ et al are useful but English gets by without them with no problem. We gave up a few cool letters but don't have to worry about declension (except with pronouns, for some reason), and that's a trade I'll take any day.

It's not like declension is hard when you're used to it....

[Anders]

No language is difficult if you're used to it.

[Þorkell]

What are you doing? Bringing logic into this?

[ak_aramis]

Originally Posted by Þorkell

Together with the aggressive borrowing of various things from other languages English does seem like a clumsy oaf of a language.

English is oft described as mugging other languages for new vocabulary. The only muggers I've know were both lazy oafs...