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Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by Killz3(m): 10:35pm On Feb 24, 2012 |
In what other language do people drive in a parkway and park in a driveway? Why does night fall but never break and day break but never fall? Why is it that when we transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when we transport something by ship, it's called cargo? Why are people who ride motorcycles called bikers and people who ride bikes called cyclists? In what other language do they call the third hand on the clock the second hand? Why is it called a TV set when you get only one? Why - in our crazy language - can your nose run and your feet smell? Sometimes you have to believe that all English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane: If olive oil is made of olives, what do they make baby oil from? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian consume? A writer is someone who writes, and a stinger is something that stings. But fingers don't fing and grocers don't groce. If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn't the plural of booth be beeth? If the teacher taught, why isn't it also true that the preacher praught? If harmless actions are the opposite of harmful actions, why are shameless and shameful behavior the same? English is a language in which you can turn a light on and you can turn a light off and you can turn a light out, but you can't turn a light in; In which the sun comes up and goes down, but prices go up and come down. In which your nose can simultaneously burn up and burn down and your car can slow up and slow down, in which you can fill in a form by filling out a form and in which your alarm clock goes off by going on. English is a crazy language. What is it that when the sun or the moon or 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 shall end it? 2 Likes |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by Nobody: 7:09am On Feb 25, 2012 |
Whoa. . . .dis is fantastic, . . . .and cokastic, maltinastic, palmwinestic! Lovely i'm feeling you! |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by sutoboy(m): 7:15am On Feb 25, 2012 |
hmm feeling him? eyes closed! |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by mikuz(m): 10:31am On Feb 25, 2012 |
you try small. |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by sutoboy(m): 10:35am On Feb 25, 2012 |
small? well na smal sense u get anyway 1 Like |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by ChuckD1(m): 2:31pm On Feb 25, 2012 |
~Killz~:Great Killz. Well done. |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by Killz3(m): 2:36pm On Feb 25, 2012 |
^^ I copied it actually. |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by Killz3(m): 2:37pm On Feb 25, 2012 |
booqee:I'm feeling you too. Have you had lunch? |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by Killz3(m): 2:41pm On Feb 25, 2012 |
hmm feeling him?Yes! Feeling him. . . What is your own "concernment?" |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by Nobody: 2:53pm On Feb 25, 2012 |
discombuloololbulooted joke, *killz abeg help me spell am* lol |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by Killz3(m): 2:55pm On Feb 25, 2012 |
^^^ You are on your own o. |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by Shagaiya04(m): 2:57pm On Feb 25, 2012 |
English always borrows words from other languages, I pity it when it deptors will come for what is their's. |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by eghost247(m): 4:20pm On Feb 25, 2012 |
nice one |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by billion11: 4:21pm On Feb 25, 2012 |
he he, nice post! |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by tellwisdom: 4:23pm On Feb 25, 2012 |
What should i do with this?? |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by Afam4eva(m): 4:33pm On Feb 25, 2012 |
English is as crazy as they come. English language defies logic as there is no specific rule for speaking English. |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by swtchicgurl: 4:36pm On Feb 25, 2012 |
Awwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome! me likey! |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by Nobody: 4:40pm On Feb 25, 2012 |
enters thread smiles |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by wowo2: 4:41pm On Feb 25, 2012 |
Shagaiya04: True, English developed from other languages so there is no single definite word pattern. |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by Mavrick2012: 4:45pm On Feb 25, 2012 |
Its nt a sin to show-love,expres-love,get-loved,look-lovely,b-in-love,giv-a-hand-of-love.but it becoms a sin to make-love |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by slimyem: 4:55pm On Feb 25, 2012 |
lol. Why is the past tense of take-took shake-shook and make is made? Bottom line-english is such an inconsistent language! |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by nasty45(m): 4:57pm On Feb 25, 2012 |
Why is it called energy givin food instead of food givin energy.why is it called disease causin organism instead of organism causin disease |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by chucky234(m): 4:58pm On Feb 25, 2012 |
copycat |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by odeexpress(m): 5:03pm On Feb 25, 2012 |
Wonderful, very nice piece of write up! |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by pek(m): 5:04pm On Feb 25, 2012 |
Shagaiya04:are you writing in efik? |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by Yinkay: 5:06pm On Feb 25, 2012 |
If past tense of: Take-Took then why is Bake not Book |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by Princek12(m): 5:08pm On Feb 25, 2012 |
@OP: Next time you copy someone else's work, please provide the source from which the reference was copied. They call it attribution. |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by PhysicsQED(m): 5:12pm On Feb 25, 2012 |
@ threadstarter [img]http://ewp.rpi.edu/hartford/library/images/plagiarist.gif[/img] Change your ways. You know what you did. |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by silibaba: 5:17pm On Feb 25, 2012 |
@OP:gbam |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by eghost247(m): 5:17pm On Feb 25, 2012 |
abeg make una free the guy |
Re: Let's Face It - English Is A Crazy Language! by ChefMike(m): 5:30pm On Feb 25, 2012 |
This is a big question for the English scholars to answer. |
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