The best of Antimoon Forum in 2003

This is an archive of the most interesting discussions in the Antimoon Forum that occurred in 2003. These topics are all closed. If you want to discuss one of these subjects, you should start a new topic. See also the best of 2002, 2004, and 2005.

• I HATE hearing the colloquial verb ''to be (all) like''.
• Pronouncing dates
• VCR player (pages: 1 2)
• About an English expression
• your opinion
• yes/no
• What is the correct way to pronounce 'Vitamins'?
• How Close are Danish and English?
• What do you call a young goat?
• "Mixed Languages" (pages: 1 2)
• Font size - important or not for reading in a foreign language
• Me and ...
• Homonyms (pages: 1 2 3)
• How do you pronounce marshmallow
• Diphthongs
• R-droppers verses American Words (pages: 1 2 3)
• Sick and tired of
• Slang terms for English speakers (pages: 1 2)
• Crazy words in the English language (pages: 1 2)
• British English
• Want and wont
• Contoid and vocoid
• Buoy
• Question about English adverbs
• Mobility and accents
• The language of The West Wing
• Nasality (pages: 1 2)
• Learning spanish (and others)
• Pronunciation of Of, what, was, want. (pages: 1 2)
• Common Phrases and Slogans
• BBC English (pages: 1 2)
• Michigan Accent (pages: 1 2)
• What's the difference between "I'm gonna ..." and "I'll ..."
• English Accent Grammar
• difference between "for me" and "to me".
• Preposition Problem
• words easily confused/please ask your questions here. (pages: 1 2 3 4)
• Fanetiks (pages: 1 2 3)
• Anyways or Anyway (pages: 1 2)
• What do Yanks think of English English? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6)
• Truespel (pages: 1 2)
• Subtitling native English speakers....What's up with that??!!
• Developing an American accent
• Written English is popular; spoken one is far from being so
• Dinner or Supper (pages: 1 2 3 4 5)
• Minorities in America trying to sound "more white"
• What do Brits think of American English? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6)
• I cannot express all my emotions in English (pages: 1 2)
• i.e or e.g
• Pronouncing Balm (pages: 1 2)
• 2-sylables verbs
• Accent sample - Ashley (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13)
• start from scratch (pages: 1 2)
• What does BOO mean?? (pages: 1 2)
• Difficult Site To Read
• Spelling reform (pages: 1 2 3 4)
• 'beating the rap' (pages: 1 2)
• pronunciation of "the" article
• Grammar vs Communication (pages: 1 2)
• Hello or Hi ? (pages: 1 2 3 4)
• What makes you pick out a latino accent?
• Onomatopeias question... just out of curiousity! :D (pages: 1 2)
• why to infinitive
• Please check the correctness of my letter (a native american). (pages: 1 2 3)
• what do u think about my English?
• Language without Noun/Adjective Agreement (pages: 1 2)
• Site full with language-to-language quotes
• Flammable and inflammable (pages: 1 2)
• Difference between Potty-training and toilet-training
• What's up with "what's up?"? (pages: 1 2)
• American Accent (pages: 1 2)
• Who or what is Antimoon? (pages: 1 2)
• Spelling reform (pages: 1 2 3 4)
• Roll the dice. (pages: 1 2)
• West Coast American English Evolving? (pages: 1 2)
• Learning From Your Mistakes
• Should learners pick up an accent?
• Word Ma'am (pages: 1 2 3 4)
• Names For Hexidecimal Numbers
• The Antimoon ASCII Phonetic Alphabet
• Past tense or not past tense?
• Rhyme with orange
• www.rottentomatoes.com: very difficult!
• An article about articles
• Catsup (pages: 1 2 3 4)
• German-Jews and Yiddish (pages: 1 2)
• "try+ -ing form" V.S. "try+-infinitive"
• does watch "FRIENDS" good for learning english? (pages: 1 2)
• You're welcome
• Pidgin English (pages: 1 2)
• Purple and Violet
• Questions about Japanese
• What are you upto?
• Trademarks (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6)
• cursing question (pages: 1 2)
• Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (pages: 1 2 3)
• same or different (pages: 1 2)
• Santa Claus
• 100, 101, 102, etc
• I have...?
• Decades 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s
• Sandwich
• Best Language(s) to Learn (pages: 1 2 3)
• Why romance languages are called "Romance"
• Shut up (pages: 1 2)
• At what point did American English....
• Get off of me VS Get Off me
• The word crap
• Z! (pages: 1 2)
• The Alphabet that English, German, French etc uses..
• question to the British (pages: 1 2)
• the suffix -man (pages: 1 2 3)
• I want to learn to recognize the various American accents
• English is just a minor Germanic dialect (pages: 1 2 3)
• Do we have future tense (pages: 1 2)
• The word toilet? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6)
• Differences between Mainland Mandarin & Taiwanese Mandarin
• is this really what we say?
• If u wish to know what native speaker says, read movie scripts
• The Mother Country is not Mine? (pages: 1 2)
• Schröder Schroeder Schroder (pages: 1 2)
• Learning the American accent (pages: 1 2 3)
• Learning vocabulary (pages: 1 2)
• Thou shalle speake Englishe (pages: 1 2)
• Do you think she is rude and racist? (pages: 1 2)
• I'm lost during watching English channels! (pages: 1 2 3)
• Learning French - classes v. on my own (pages: 1 2)
• What exactly is a billion in the UK? (pages: 1 2 3)
• Language-to-Language Quotes (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6)
• Love/hate Esperanto (pages: 1 2)
• Language enthusiasts (pages: 1 2)
• English Tenses (Compared to Other Languages) (pages: 1 2)
• More French in English than You Think (pages: 1 2 3 4 5)
• How do English speaking children learn to read?
• Mind translation
• a question to all europeans or people who can answer this (pages: 1 2 3 4)
• Americans sound nasal (pages: 1 2 3 4)
• Martha Stewart's accent real american?
• "Coloureds" (pages: 1 2 3 4 5)
• A sample of my accent
• snatrge suftf aoubt Esgnilh (pages: 1 2)
• A Russian word choice question
• Non-Standard English (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7)
• Please check the sentences.
• I Need Help From The Native Speakers. (pages: 1 2)
• rolling R for Russian
• What does it mean: "HARD-DRIVING" ???
• Letzeburgesch (pages: 1 2)
• German or Italian??? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8)
• Teaching Constructed Languages to Children
• For Tom and other guys: About Dictioaries
• Should non-native speakers teach their sons and daughters?
• Asians speaking english
• South Dublin Accent = Australian accent in the US (pages: 1 2 3)
• schwa (pages: 1 2)
• Pronouncing TH (pages: 1 2 3 4)
• English is a Problem? (pages: 1 2)
• Accent samples - Michal speaks British
• word for someone who gets cold too quickly
• English Spelling Revision: How? (pages: 1 2)
• 'pot' and 'part' in non-rhotic American accents
• The creator of English language has fetish for silent letters. (pages: 1 2)
• Accent samples - Tom speaks British (pages: 1 2)
• Pronunciation survey - "o" in American (pages: 1 2 3 4 5)
• RP accent in singing?
• Ways to Learn a Language
• 'sorry' and 'starry' - same or different vowel in American (pages: 1 2)
• doubt in grammar
• Accent samples - Michal part 2
• Dont bag out australian english (pages: 1 2 3)
• US should have ZERO unemployment rate!! (pages: 1 2)
• Accent samples - Tom part 2 (pages: 1 2 3)
• Is Cantonese accent the most widespread bad accent?
• gramatical question: will + be + ing
• Present Perfect or Past Indefinite?
• Attitudes towards accent variation (pages: 1 2)
• A Question for those who understand about IPA.
• Accent samples - Brazilian Guy (pages: 1 2)
• Pronunciation
• What is good pronunciation?
• Accent samples - Alex
• Tom:Urgent Request (Regional Accents) (pages: 1 2)
• British, South African, and New Zealand accents (pages: 1 2)
• Two islands — a short story about pronunciation
• The best non-native English speaker countries (pages: 1 2)
• Data
• Want to learn American Accent.
• Accent samples - Deaptor
• "in case of" and "in the case of"
• generic sentence (pages: 1 2 3)
• Does accent have anything to do with language groups?
• accent sample: one Russian Guy (pages: 1 2 3)
• Accent samples - Michal (pages: 1 2)
• "play" pronounced as "plea" /pli:/
• How do you pronounce "antimoon"? (pages: 1 2 3)
• unable to understand is as serious as unable to get understood
• Accent samples - Ryan
• Accent samples - Guofei Ma (pages: 1 2 3)
• London accents (pages: 1 2)
• Why Learn Language?
• Wingyellow asking for help (pages: 1 2)
• To be all about
• Accent samples: Tom (pages: 1 2)
• Accent samples - Wingyellow
• Multilingualism: Good or Bad? (pages: 1 2)
• Accent uploading (pages: 1 2 3)
• Is it possible to speak a foreign language without an accent? (pages: 1 2)
• American "T" (pages: 1 2 3)
• Could you all assess my spoken English? (pages: 1 2 3)
• BRITISH ACCENT!!! (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6)
• Language Related Hobbies (pages: 1 2)
• criteria to assess one's listening skills
• Language Extinction (pages: 1 2)
• Dreams
• Gender in the English Language
• "Policy of using sth" (pages: 1 2)
• Those Baffling British Names (pages: 1 2)
• Good question for good native speakers (pages: 1 2)
• Canadian regional accents
• Quick question about article usage
• I would like - revisited
• Hugh Grant? (pages: 1 2)
• how to ask ....
• Sneaked v. Snuck and Hanged v. Hung
• Chances that native speakers can't understand each other
• When to use...?
• German question (pages: 1 2)
• When do native speakers learn to write correctly?
• I need a review on German language
• which languages are the most difficult ? (pages: 1 2 3 4)
• "TH" vs. "F" (pages: 1 2)
• problem with TOEFL
• Minnesotan Accents (midwest usa) (pages: 1 2 3 4)
• Don't be shy just have a try! (pages: 1 2)
• I'm looking for Guofei Ma (pages: 1 2)
• Why "Lincoln" is pronounced like Linking??? (pages: 1 2)
• Thee, thou, ye, etc... (pages: 1 2)
• Language Suited Occupations
• I could distinguish between Bat and Bet
• Calling American English American
• Learn the characters first? or speaking first?
• British Accent (pages: 1 2 3)
• How long does it really take to speak english as good as a nativ (pages: 1 2)
• How does German sound? (pages: 1 2)
• BRING vs FETCH
• The word CELTIC is in widespread use. What does it mean to you? (pages: 1 2)
• Grammar mistakes people often make (pages: 1 2)
• Do you think english is an important language and accents
• australian accents (pages: 1 2)
• Pronunciaiton of NG (pages: 1 2)
• How does american accents sound? (pages: 1 2)
• Puritans and English (pages: 1 2)
• Cornish or Welsh?
• is studying mandarin hard?
• How does english sound
• Will or going to ... (pages: 1 2 3)
• Language Death (pages: 1 2)
• Birmingham accent
• French or German (pages: 1 2)
• How dreadful it is!
• Learned-Learnt
• up or down the street
• Heritage Languages Diluted by English (pages: 1 2 3)
• Harry Potter books to improve English (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7)
• style and register
• German Tenses (pages: 1 2)
• If I know well, 'persons' is wrong. (pages: 1 2)
• How not to lose English (pages: 1 2 3 4 5)
• on at in
• Misleading "Neutral" Languages (pages: 1 2)
• Scots is NOT a seperate language to other forms of English!
• Fifth and Sixth (pages: 1 2)
• Do you wish you had a different accent? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6)
• American Accent Training by Ann Cook - Any successful story? (pages: 1 2 3)
• Status of the CELTIC Languages in Europe Today! (pages: 1 2 3)
• Slang in English speaking countries. (pages: 1 2 3 4)
• Got to, Have t...
• Accents in American Movies (pages: 1 2 3)
• French VS English (pages: 1 2)
• Past perfect tense: Question for native speakers
• The best way to listen
• Difference between "for" and "since" (pages: 1 2)
• Best writer to learn English (pages: 1 2 3)
• Is the plural of 'it' 'they'?
• Scouse-English
• had or has/have?
• Downtown and uptown (pages: 1 2)
• pronunciation of "it"
• How many languages? (pages: 1 2 3 4)
• gerund or infinitive? (pages: 1 2)
• Spellling Reforms (pages: 1 2 3 4 5)
• Names of Persons and Places (pages: 1 2)
• Mums the word (pages: 1 2 3 4)
• comment about CCED
• British and American English (pages: 1 2 3)
• Does Language Make Who We Are? (pages: 1 2)
• Friends sitcom (pages: 1 2 3 4 5)
• English /Borrowing from other languages (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6)
• Language Represents Culture (pages: 1 2)
• the future of English
• How to learn correct English pronunciation?
• British culture (pages: 1 2)
• I really need help, i think i can speak good English but when...
• Why pronunciation is important ? (pages: 1 2 3)
• Culture and Language Matter Not (pages: 1 2)
• German Pronunciation
• South African English
• Using phonetics in the ESL classroom
• Will Spanish substitute English? (pages: 1 2)
• Need and needn't
• Supermemo's collections
• Difference between jungle and forest
• him\her\he\she (pages: 1 2 3)
• Being sent to Coventry
• difference of wait and await???
• Southern Culture of America and English (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6)
• What Your Language/Nationality Means to You (pages: 1 2)
• "since" + present perfect
• Phonemic transcription (pages: 1 2)
• Language skills and telephone conversations
• "X" Number of Generations (pages: 1 2)
• English Learners: come and clarify your doubts (pages: 1 2 3 4 5)
• Does language determines mouth & throat evolution? (pages: 1 2)
• How do infants learn a language?
• kiwis and aussies' accents (pages: 1 2)
• Status of the native British languages
• the letter Y (pages: 1 2)
• Place names and their origins.
• How to use 'who' and 'whom'
• 'Yes' or 'No' (pages: 1 2)
• A View to A Kill --a trivial vocabulary question?--
• Prejudice & accents in England.... (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7)
• English words of Chinese origin
• Why do they pronounce "my" as "me" (pages: 1 2)
• Help is required from the Natives.
• past tense V.S. used to
• Sentences need correction by native speakers.
• will or would (pages: 1 2 3)
• Antimoon's pronunciation software
• Communicating in English (pages: 1 2 3)
• Need help from native speakers to check the sentences.
• Time Expressions in English
• I'm not good at spoken English. (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9)
• "Repeating knowledge"?
• Any questions about the German language ??? (pages: 1 2 3 4)
• Do I Have An Accent? (pages: 1 2 3 4)
• Pure Languages (pages: 1 2 3 4)
• "a" or "an" before an acronym
• What's the difference between "have to" and "must" ?
• Cmhiv's Revision of English Spelling
• Difference between everyone / everybody...
• How often do you use English? (pages: 1 2 3)
• Is the sentence "me too" correct ? (pages: 1 2)
• Aussie English and Aussie Accent
• Grammar Question
• talk to, or talk with....
• How many homophones do you know? (pages: 1 2)
• When will the English language be reformed? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5)
• Local Minority Languages v. Foreign Minority Languages
• A Rule Up With Which I Shall Not Put
• New Words from Foreign Languages (pages: 1 2)
• English-speaking Ghettoes (pages: 1 2 3)
• Odd Loan Words (pages: 1 2)