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This English Language Sef!. by robby1(m): 7:03pm On Nov 21, 2007 |
Let's face it -- English is a crazy language. 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 it's 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, that you comb through annals of history but not a single annal? 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? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue? 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? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another? Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who ARE spring chickens or who would ACTUALLY hurt a fly? 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 why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it. |
Re: This English Language Sef!. by kronkykay(m): 12:32am On Nov 22, 2007 |
really crazy indeed i bet you'll start analyzing allother languages you can start with yoruba jooo |
Re: This English Language Sef!. by Nobody: 9:03am On Nov 22, 2007 |
kronkykay: yoruba ? The first to do in yoruba is to refine some proverbs |
Re: This English Language Sef!. by ituen(m): 11:21am On Nov 22, 2007 |
Good one poster Are u studying lingusistics in a grammer school? |
Re: This English Language Sef!. by robby1(m): 2:10pm On Nov 24, 2007 |
nope. just observations ![]() |
Re: This English Language Sef!. by clemcykul(f): 5:26pm On Nov 24, 2007 |
@POSTER! chei dats a big black lie, which brain did u use to analyze all these ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Re: This English Language Sef!. by topeteadr(m): 9:39pm On Nov 24, 2007 |
Remix lol. |
Re: This English Language Sef!. by SugaLips(f): 10:43pm On Nov 24, 2007 |
r_o_b_b_y:I would have left you to shine in your new found glory but then you had to lie. I recieved this in an email a long time ago so it's not like your 'observation' but copier-coller |
Re: This English Language Sef!. by robby1(m): 12:11am On Nov 27, 2007 |
Suga_lıps ı lıke ur pıc. ı guess u are the fırst from the left. rıgth? |
Re: This English Language Sef!. by MrTurkey(m): 12:34am On Nov 27, 2007 |
do you guys know that the turkey language is older than the english language? the earliest known english were spoken on or about the 8th/9th centuries, but turkese has been spoken since the days of Noah meeen ![]() r_o_b_b_y:they all gat lips and the degree to which the glucose content as contained on each individual lips is appreciated depends on who is doing the viewing (from the posts i've been priviledged to see on this site, many would claim the guy in the pix is the sugar lips ![]() |
Re: This English Language Sef!. by Nobody: 12:54am On Nov 27, 2007 |
wow. . .this makes sense. wouldn't you're getting on my nerves be a parody since you're not actually on my nerves. . .hmmmm? ![]() |
Re: This English Language Sef!. by SugaLips(f): 1:00am On Nov 27, 2007 |
Yes Robby I am. |
Re: This English Language Sef!. by MrTurkey(m): 1:14am On Nov 27, 2007 |
fine girl ![]() |
Re: This English Language Sef!. by micklplus(m): 7:38am On Nov 27, 2007 |
Nice one and so true. Cheers |
Re: This English Language Sef!. by robby1(m): 3:35pm On Nov 27, 2007 |
Suga_Lips:I thougth as much. ur face looked farmiliar. have by any chance been to any agape christain church in baltimore? |
Re: This English Language Sef!. by SugaLips(f): 4:56pm On Nov 27, 2007 |
No never attended any church outside of Virginia and Houston, Texas |
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