Thursday 2 May 2013

RE: [wanabidii] Re: (VVM Forum) English - A Tough Language to Learn

Thanks Oduor,
Have you see the list of all uses of the word "up" like write-up, break-up, etc?
Another crazy thing.
 

 

Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 04:25:37 -0400
Subject: [wanabidii] Re: (VVM Forum) English - A Tough Language to Learn
From: mauricejoduor@gmail.com
To: progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com
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A friend of mine just sent me this and asked me to share it with others. I have no clue where he got it from. But is shows how difficult English is to learn. English, unlike Latin-based languages (French, Spanish, Portuguese etc.) and Greek, German etc., has no formula. Each word is learned independently (memorized). In Rough, gh has an F-sound. yet in Thought, gh is silent !!!!

Here is my buddy's mail.

I have also had prombrems with this Engrich language, but console myself that I am not the only one.  I do not know where this was originally published; but it makes for a good laugh.

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes; but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes.

One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice;  yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,  why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet, and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set
are teeth, why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?
Then one may be that, and three would be those, yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
and the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren, but though we say mother we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, but imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim.


Some reasons to be grateful if you grew up speaking English;

 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) At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of a 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 Novocain 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?
 22) I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt.

So, 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 .
 

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?
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 wiseguy are opposites?


Courage


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Maurice Oduor <mauricejoduor@gmail.com> wrote:
 

A friend of mine just sent me this and asked me to share it with others. I have no clue where he got it from. But is shows how difficult English is to learn. English, unlike Latin-based languages (French, Spanish, Portuguese etc.) and Greek, German etc., has no formula. Each word is learned independently (memorized). In Rough, gh has an F-sound. yet in Thought, gh is silent !!!!

Here is my buddy's mail.

I have also had prombrems with this Engrich language, but console myself that I am not the only one.  I do not know where this was originally published; but it makes for a good laugh.

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes; but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes.

One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice;  yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,  why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet, and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set
are teeth, why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?
Then one may be that, and three would be those, yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
and the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren, but though we say mother we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, but imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim.


Some reasons to be grateful if you grew up speaking English;

 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) At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of a 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 Novocain 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?
 22) I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt.

So, 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 .
 

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?
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 wiseguy are opposites?




Courage

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