Why it is so hard to learn English

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1)The bandage was wound around the wound,
2)The farm was used to produce produce
3)The dump was so full 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)There is no time like the present , so we thought
it was time to present the present
8)A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum
9)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
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 pants I shed a tear
20)I had to subject the subject to a series of tests
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is
neither egg in an eggplant nor ham in hamburger; Neither apple nor pine in pineapple. Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. 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. You park in the driveway but you drive on the parkway. You ship by truck and send cargo by ship. How can a slim chance and a fat chance be 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. When the stars are out, they are visible , but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
 
Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
That's good! Did you come up with that yourself? :lol:

No, I got it in a e-mail.
 
I still wonder how in the World I ever learned it :crazyeye:
 
I naturally learned it (me being in America), but it does make me wonder how I ever did!:crazyeye:
 
I don't know whether the weather will get better
His son liked watching the sun rise

That's all I got. :crazyeye:
 
Of course, Superevie!:rolleyes:
Originally posted by Superevie
I don't know whether the weather will get better.

Always a quote from the Simpsons!:lol: I dunno how the English language was formed, but it looks incredibly unstructured compared to other Indo-European languages!:undecide:
 
Originally posted by Amenhotep7
Of course, Superevie!:rolleyes:


Always a quote from the Simpsons!:lol: I dunno how the English language was formed, but it looks incredibly unstructured compared to other Indo-European languages!:undecide:

Maybe they wrote down random words and pulled them from a hat. :lol:
 
My share:

I hit the barman at the club with my golf club for messing my club sandwich.

He who has the most hair will heir the hare.

I brought a ball to the ball (dance), and everybody laughed at me, so I pulled down my pants and showed them my *****. :lol:

A: "Which direction do I take?"
B: "Left."
A: "Left?"
B : "Right."
 
You are all missing the point. Many words have different means and many different words have the same sound because we Brits love wordplay. For example. Women get stoned for committing adultery in some countries but in others they commit adultery when they get stoned.
 
Originally posted by MrPresident
You are all missing the point. Many words have different means and many different words have the same sound because we Brits love wordplay. For example. Women get stoned for committing adultery in some countries but in others they commit adultery when they get stoned.
I'm not it has same sound bt opposite meaning, it's cool :cooool:
 
Originally posted by Amenhotep7
Of course, Superevie!:rolleyes:


Always a quote from the Simpsons!:lol: I dunno how the English language was formed, but it looks incredibly unstructured compared to other Indo-European languages!:undecide:

What?! :D I love the Simpsons... And I never said I had a good joke! :p
 
myar had a little pig, she also had a bear,
I've never seen her little pig, but i've often had a beer

:p
 
Since I live in America I learned it but otherwise i don't know how people learn it. We should speak French then this complicated thing called English.
 
English is a truly versatile language. All you need to do is bear in mind the following three rules:

(1) GH can be pronounced "F" - as in "tough"

(2) O can be pronounced "I" - as in "women"

(3) TI can be pronounced "SH" - as in "nation".

Then you can put these three rules together, and watch out for all the "GHOTI" swimming in the sea.
 
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