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Topic: Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn:
IndnPrncs's photo
Sat 03/20/10 02:04 PM
laugh laugh laugh if you ask Updawg, I have lots of beans in my pockets... laugh laugh

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Sat 03/20/10 02:06 PM

laugh laugh laugh if you ask Updawg, I have lots of beans in my pockets... laugh laugh



Well? Empty 'em out, Sugah, so ya can squeeze in a few Cabana Boys on your 'down' time ... :laughing:

IndnPrncs's photo
Sat 03/20/10 02:07 PM
laugh laugh laugh laugh I should, shouldn't I.. Damn my workaholic self... laugh

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Sat 03/20/10 02:09 PM
Bless her Fadda, for she wants to sin ... tongue2


... slaphead ... Kim is sooooo gonna skin us ... scared

yellowrose10's photo
Sat 03/20/10 02:11 PM

Bless her Fadda, for she wants to sin ... tongue2


... slaphead ... Kim is sooooo gonna skin us ... scared


nope...I just moved it to chit chat. have fun

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Sat 03/20/10 02:12 PM
Rut~Roh ... We just got it moved to coffee house ... oops


... blushing ... Sawwy Kim, I blame ... ME! ... sad



mikeken's photo
Sat 03/20/10 02:32 PM
This is why it is called language not rocket science , you learn it the the way it is or you leave it alone .

franshade's photo
Sat 03/20/10 05:50 PM

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?


If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth?

One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese?

One index, 2 indices?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?

If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?

Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?

Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by
filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

People, not computers invented English, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all.

That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

P.S.

Why doesn't "buick" rhyme with "quick"?

it be cuz the axent - peeples dont know how to be talking good and day done there be passing it on and on - kinda like tag ur eet

Jess642's photo
Sun 03/21/10 12:55 PM

Rut~Roh ... We just got it moved to coffee house ... oops


... blushing ... Sawwy Kim, I blame ... ME! ... sad






Bwah hahahaha!!!

That engrish rangruage shore is hard to fathom!

Chit chaT?

aLL FOR A HUMMMMMMMMMMM.....diggety dawg!

laugh

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Sun 03/21/10 12:57 PM


Rut~Roh ... We just got it moved to coffee house ... oops


... blushing ... Sawwy Kim, I blame ... ME! ... sad






Bwah hahahaha!!!

That engrish rangruage shore is hard to fathom!

Chit chaT?

aLL FOR A HUMMMMMMMMMMM.....diggety dawg!

laugh



It's a toe tappin' lil ditty ... To be sure, aye, to be sure ... shades

franshade's photo
Fri 03/26/10 07:21 AM

This is why it is called language not rocket science , you learn it the the way it is or you leave it alone .

neva nuffin is ritten in stone
we can all CHANGE evrythin

laugh

metalwing's photo
Fri 03/26/10 07:39 AM
Spring has sprung!happy

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