Why English is the hardest language to learn (84)
wedwardlinz, Upper Austria Austria680 Threads 7,252 Postsand the bits that are not rusty have dropped off
Vous êtes très gentille chère Mademoiselle is better 
Wow! Correct accents as well! Très bien! 10/10! Monsieur Nettermann!
Comment allez vous aujourd'hui?
Comment allez vous aujourd'hui?
très bien Mademoiselle j' aimerais être en Espagne aussi, il fait plus chaud là-bas, ici le temps n' est pas clément et il pleut beaucoup
Malheureusement en ce moment je suis en Grande Bretagne! De la pluie et des nuages ... tous les jours! 
Vive le soleil!
No, I prefer the more intimate form, thanks all the same! 
ehh rusty knight but with using the word ' vous' you are showing more respect 
exactly! you are so right! however, the 'vous' form is a bit passee these days....plus having seen flower's bosum tattoo it would be a bit silly to be so formal, n'est-ce pas?
Netterman - the former English 'tu' was 'thou'............I use it rarely; only in certain circumstances such as:
'Thou art a knave, Sir - and if you do not apologise immediately to the lady I shall have no option but to challenge you to a duel'
One can also use 'thou' to a lady:
'Thou art more lovely than a bowl of gently melting ice-cream, I want to lick you all over!'
'Thou' is just not used enough in English these days!
'Thou art a knave, Sir - and if you do not apologise immediately to the lady I shall have no option but to challenge you to a duel'
One can also use 'thou' to a lady:
'Thou art more lovely than a bowl of gently melting ice-cream, I want to lick you all over!'
'Thou' is just not used enough in English these days!
I am glad to have been of service!
Oye! Shiny knight! You leave my bosum tattoo out of it! 
English signs in UK & abroad!
In a Bangkok temple: "It is forbidden to enter a woman, even a foreigner, if dressed as a man."
Doctors office, Rome: "Specialist in women and other diseases."
Dry cleaners, Bangkok: "Drop your trousers here for the best results."
In a Nairobi restaurant: "Customers who find our waitresses rude ought to see the manager."
On the main road to Mombasa leaving Nairobi: "Take notice: when this sign is under water, this road is impassable."
On a Cairo poster: "Are you an adult that cannot read? If so, we can help."
In a city restaurant: "Open seven days a week and weekends."
A sign seen on an automatic restroom hand dryer in New York: "Do not activate with wet hands."
In a London cemetery: "Persons are prohibited from picking flowers from any but their own graves."
Tokyo hotel's rules and regulations: "guests are requested not to smoke or do other disgusting behaviours in bed."
On the menu of a Swiss restaurant: "Our wines leave you nothing to hope for."
Hotel, Yugoslavia: "The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid."
Hotel, Japan: "you are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid."
In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across from a Russian orthodox
monastery: "you are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous
Russian composers, artists, and writers are buried daily. Except
Thursday."
Airline ticket office, Copenhagen: "we take your bags and send them in all directions."
A laundry in Rome: "Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time."
In a Bangkok temple: "It is forbidden to enter a woman, even a foreigner, if dressed as a man."
Doctors office, Rome: "Specialist in women and other diseases."
Dry cleaners, Bangkok: "Drop your trousers here for the best results."
In a Nairobi restaurant: "Customers who find our waitresses rude ought to see the manager."
On the main road to Mombasa leaving Nairobi: "Take notice: when this sign is under water, this road is impassable."
On a Cairo poster: "Are you an adult that cannot read? If so, we can help."
In a city restaurant: "Open seven days a week and weekends."
A sign seen on an automatic restroom hand dryer in New York: "Do not activate with wet hands."
In a London cemetery: "Persons are prohibited from picking flowers from any but their own graves."
Tokyo hotel's rules and regulations: "guests are requested not to smoke or do other disgusting behaviours in bed."
On the menu of a Swiss restaurant: "Our wines leave you nothing to hope for."
Hotel, Yugoslavia: "The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid."
Hotel, Japan: "you are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid."
In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across from a Russian orthodox
monastery: "you are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous
Russian composers, artists, and writers are buried daily. Except
Thursday."
Airline ticket office, Copenhagen: "we take your bags and send them in all directions."
A laundry in Rome: "Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time."
tut tut wedy naughty boy ::roll:
::roll: is english so difficult you have to write in frog sorry i mean french to make fun
Rib it! rib it! We must polish the Polish furniture.
To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
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 or 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
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 indices?
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 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
- 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.
Why doesn't "buick" rhyme with "quick"?
To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
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 or 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
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 indices?
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 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
- 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.
Why doesn't "buick" rhyme with "quick"?
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