English ! ! ! ! ! !

[Jacaylbaro]

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.

2) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

3) I did not object to the object

. 4) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

5) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row .

6) They were too close to the door to close it.

7) The wind was too strong to wind the sail. 8) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

 

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 nor 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 indixes? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? 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?

 

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?

 

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, 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.

 

PS. - Why doesn't Buick rhyme with quick?

[Chimera]

looooooooooooooooooooool

 

what about:

 

''You want to have your Cake and eat it too''

 

Lol what the hell is it for then?

 

or

 

''Believe you me''

 

:confused:

[The_Siren]

(Giggles in amusement)

 

How about spelling? Blooming ridiculous for those learning English I tell you.

[Suldaanka]

If "Pros" and "Cons" are opposites, then Congress must be the opposite of Progress.

[MAXIMUS POWERS]

Its still the most superior and widely spoken language in the World!!!

[Ms DD]

No. Arabic is.

[MAXIMUS POWERS]

More superior or widely spoken Mrs.DD??

[Ms DD]

Superior of course. English is marax, bilaa milix next to Arabic.

[Nin-Yaaban]

Originally posted by -MARX-:

Its still the most superior and widely spoken language in the World!!!

chinese mandarian (sp?) is the most widely spoken language in the world, not english. superior? probably Somali and half dozen others.