Post: Only the english could have invented this language
08-22-2010, 06:02 PM #1
Reees
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We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,
But the plural of ox becomes 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,
Then shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I speak 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!

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?
Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English
should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.

In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
We ship by truck but send cargo by ship.
We have noses that run and feet that smell.
We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway.
And 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.

And, in closing, if Father is Pop, how come Mother's not Mop?

AND IF PEOPLE FROM POLAND ARE CALLED POLES THEN PEOPLE FROM HOLLAND
SHOULD BE HOLES AND THE GERMANS, GERMS


If you have read up to this far, i really appreciate it! :love:


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Chaldo29
08-22-2010, 06:25 PM #11
Reees
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Originally posted by Awesomechaos View Post
To put a link saying source just copy and paste this into the part of your post you want it to appear in:
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Thankyou very much, have done it Smile
08-22-2010, 06:35 PM #12
Quantum_
Como is my GOD!
tl;dr :carling:
08-22-2010, 06:36 PM #13
Reees
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Originally posted by Quantum
tl;dr :carling:


tl;dr...............? :embarrassed:
08-22-2010, 06:38 PM #14
Quantum_
Como is my GOD!
Originally posted by hope View Post
tl;dr...............? :embarrassed:


too long; didn't read
08-22-2010, 06:39 PM #15
Reees
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Originally posted by Quantum
too long; didn't read


Ahh.. Smile well thanks for being honest. =D
08-24-2010, 05:07 PM #16
SAMCRO
Hurah!
i apologise not 2 put u down as i see u hav worked hard on this... but the majority of out language was given to us by the French :P --- GEEEK
08-25-2010, 08:59 AM #17
iZach
Space Ninja
thankss...
08-25-2010, 11:16 AM #18
Reees
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Originally posted by X0smallz0X View Post
i apologise not 2 put u down as i see u hav worked hard on this... but the majority of out language was given to us by the French :P --- GEEEK

Reallyy? thanks didnt know that.
Originally posted by FakezT View Post
thankss...

being sarcastic? :confused:
08-25-2010, 05:23 PM #19
iZach
Space Ninja
Originally posted by hope View Post
Reallyy? thanks didnt know that.

being sarcastic? :confused:


No I said thanks for linking me to the userbar website.

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