SweetBrenda
08-12-2004, 05:51 PM
Wy is
Englsh so ard to lern?
And wy is dyslexia a ard worde too spel
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) I did not object to the object.
9) There was a row among the oarsmen
about how to row.
10) They were too close to the door to close it.
11) Upon seeing the tear in the painting
I shed a tear.
12) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy
language.
There is no: egg in eggplant,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.
You cannot buy boots in Boots
You cannot buy virgins in Virgin
You cannot buy threshers
in Threshers and the Superdrug chain is a real bum deal.
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?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats
vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an
asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
We 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.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human
race (which, of course, isn't a race at all).
That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when
the lights are out, they are invisible.
And finally, how about This, when you want to shut down this computer
you have to hit "START
_____________________________________
*Gawd! No wonder why half of the time I'm
confussed...:hammer: lol
Englsh so ard to lern?
And wy is dyslexia a ard worde too spel
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) I did not object to the object.
9) There was a row among the oarsmen
about how to row.
10) They were too close to the door to close it.
11) Upon seeing the tear in the painting
I shed a tear.
12) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy
language.
There is no: egg in eggplant,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.
You cannot buy boots in Boots
You cannot buy virgins in Virgin
You cannot buy threshers
in Threshers and the Superdrug chain is a real bum deal.
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?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats
vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an
asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
We 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.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human
race (which, of course, isn't a race at all).
That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when
the lights are out, they are invisible.
And finally, how about This, when you want to shut down this computer
you have to hit "START
_____________________________________
*Gawd! No wonder why half of the time I'm
confussed...:hammer: lol