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Rank: Senior Member Joined: 06 Dec 2009 Posts: 312

i was watching a katt williams stand-up, and he brought up the topic of silent letters. he says that there is no reason to have silent letters. for instance as he states "you have this word knife. why the fuck is there a k in that word? if it's a silent letter then take the motherfucker out." so what do you all think? is there really a need for silent letters? i think that if there is a silent letter then that means someone had way too much time on their hands when they made up the english language lol

FA · Rank: Super Veteran Joined: 25 Oct 2009 Posts: 2070

True, it does get annoying but just think if the english language didn't have those. For example knot, would be the same thing as not, it would get less annoying but more confusing.

Rank: Super Veteran Joined: 06 Oct 2008 Posts: 1159

I dont see whats wrong with silent letters. Are people just so lazy they dont want too type/write 1-2 extra letters?

FA · Rank: Super Veteran Joined: 25 Oct 2009 Posts: 2070

Well, that's how americans are.

Rank: Super Veteran Joined: 06 Oct 2008 Posts: 1159

Its why im glad im Canadian.

Rank: Senior Member Joined: 06 Dec 2009 Posts: 312

ok well is there a deffinition of the word nife? cause if not then why dont we make nife the actual word for knife. and no it's not how americans are. now your stereotyping.

Rank: Super Veteran Joined: 04 Mar 2009 Posts: 1548

i agree, i tend to spell foneticly, (In other words i spell things as they sound) so some of thous words with silent letters tend to get me chewed out by the spelling perfectionests.

Rank: Super Veteran Joined: 30 Sep 2009 Posts: 9138

i don't really care if word's have silent letters or not.

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 30 Aug 2008 Posts: 1521

There are a few words that would get confusing if you remove silent letters, and so it begs the question why bother removing any of them if you can't remove all of them.

Other examples of word confusion results:
Know = now
knight = night
gnaw = naw(slang "no")

So there are words out there that you just wouldn't remove silent letters from, which would make the case as to why would you want to drop silent letters if you can't do it to all the words with silent letters? If you're going to confuse words, why not make there, their, and they're all spelled the same so no one knows what you're talking about?