Why English is so Hard to Learn

[elluko]

Reasons Why the English Language
is So Hard to Learn

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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 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) A bass was painted on the head of the 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 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.

[FONT=&quot]> If the plural of tooth is teeth, [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]> why isn't the plural of booth beeth? [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]> One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]> One index, 2 indices? [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]> [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]> Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]> you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]> what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]> If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]> In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]> Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]> Have noses that run and feet that smell? [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]> How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]> a wise guy are opposites? [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]> You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]> house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]> filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]> People, not computers invented English, and it reflects the creativity [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]> of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]> when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]> they are invisible. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]> P.S. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]> Why doesn't "buick" rhyme with "quick"? [/FONT]

THE PAOMNNEHAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.



I found this stuff all over the net, pretty damn cool.
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[lemon]

Reasons Why the English Language

is So Hard to Learn​

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) A bass was painted on the head of the 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 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. ​

[FONT=&quot]> If the plural of tooth is teeth, [/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]> why isn't the plural of booth beeth? [/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]> One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? [/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]> One index, 2 indices? [/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]> [/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]> Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If [/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]> you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, [/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]> what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? [/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]> If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? [/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]> In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? [/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]> Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? [/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]> Have noses that run and feet that smell? [/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]> How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and [/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]> a wise guy are opposites? [/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]> You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your [/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]> house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by [/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]> filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on. [/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]> People, not computers invented English, and it reflects the creativity [/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]> of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, [/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]> when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, [/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]> they are invisible. [/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]> P.S. [/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]> Why doesn't "buick" rhyme with "quick"? [/FONT]​

THE PAOMNNEHAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID​

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.​

I found this stuff all over the net, pretty damn cool.​

in your little scrambled paragraph, you forgot an 'a' in 'raed it wouthit porbelm' ... just a point ot make. and if copy and pasted it, you might want to credit everyone in the copying and pasting, otherwise, it is considered plagarism.

 

[sharpies]

Here is an exercise in English spelling that I have always liked.

GHOTI can be pronounced as fish

GH comes from enough
O comes from women
TI comes from station

There is no doubt that English is a weird language, but apparently it is not the hardest one to learn. It's one of the danish languages - can't bloody remember which one.

Allan

 

[BreakfastSurreal]

i dont think it would be considered plagiarism, he never claimed that this was his own work, he stated at the end that he found it all on the net...this is a public forum not an english class, so i dont really see anything wrong with posting things found on the net here.

 

[TheOriginalJames]

18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.

To make numb... is that a word, number? I don't think it is.

> Why doesn't "buick" rhyme with "quick"?

Because Buick was somebody's name, and was influenced in pronunciation by it's origin, not just the english language.

 

[elluko]

yah, some of it doesnt make sense but its still cool

 

[elluko]

in your little scrambled paragraph, you forgot an 'a' in 'raed it wouthit porbelm' ... just a point ot make. and if copy and pasted it, you might want to credit everyone in the copying and pasting, otherwise, it is considered plagarism.

I quoted it.
I also took every word from an email.

 

[PCboy]

Has anyone read this before?

Let's Face It. English Is a Stupid Language.



There is no egg in the eggplant,
No ham in the hamburger
And neither pine nor apple in the pineapple.
English muffins were not invented in England,
French fries were not invented in France.
We sometimes take English for granted, but if we examine its paradoxes we find that:
Quicksand takes you down slowly,
Boxing rings are square,
And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
If writers write, how come fingers don't fing?
If the plural of tooth is teeth,
Shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth?
If the teacher taught,
Why hasn't the preacher praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables,
What the heck does a humanitarian eat?
Why do people recite at a play,
Yet play at a recital?
Park on driveways and
Drive on parkways?
How can the weather be as hot as hell on one day
And as cold as hell on another?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language where a house can burn up as it burns down,
And in which you fill in a form
By filling it out
And a bell is only heard once it goes!
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 it is that when I wind up my watch
It starts,
But when I wind up this poem
It ends.

 

[elluko]

Ive already posted most of that.

 

[GuesSAngel]

Here is an exercise in English spelling that I have always liked.

GHOTI can be pronounced as fish

GH comes from enough
O comes from women
TI comes from station

There is no doubt that English is a weird language, but apparently it is not the hardest one to learn. It's one of the danish languages - can't bloody remember which one.

Allan

Actually from me taking french for all of these years, when I look at it from someone elses perspective in learning english (take for example my friend Marlene who lives in france) english is a hard language to learn.

 

[elluko]

Actually from me taking french for all of these years, when I look at it from someone elses perspective in learning english (take for example my friend Marlene who lives in france) english is a hard language to learn.

I was in french immersion for 7 years.
Im studying to be a language teacher, teaching spanish and french. or ill just be a cop.

 

[Sam]

You UNDERSTAND it ... because if u LEARN it there is no GURANTEE you will UNDERSTAND it ... so you UNDERSTAND it first automatically you will LEARN it in this process.

 

[GuesSAngel]

ummm...yeah....alrighty then.

 

[sharpies]

mmm... I guess I don't understand it.

Allan

 

[GuesSAngel]

nah it's i guess we just don't understand what sam is saying

 

[Sam]

hahahahehehehehe well tats the magic

 

[lemon]

no, that is the less-learned one speaking

 

[elluko]

You UNDERSTAND it ... because if u LEARN it there is no GURANTEE you will UNDERSTAND it ... so you UNDERSTAND it first automatically you will LEARN it in this process.

of course...