English is a crasy language...............Yep for sure............There is no rhyme nor reason...... (15)
yep english is crazy.........u gotta concentrate on sounds........ b u t is but .c u t is cut ........g o should be gooo but it go...........u cant read it like ya write it........but its a necessity
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Indeed it is 
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Xtabentun: Indeed it is
hi maria..........n funny part.english was not the lang. of england originally
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ghot is pronounced fish... in English of course...
the gh from enough
the o from women
and the t from portion (amongst numerous other words that could easily have fit in here)
Damn crazy language if you ask me for sure...
the gh from enough
the o from women
and the t from portion (amongst numerous other words that could easily have fit in here)
Damn crazy language if you ask me for sure...
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BarrenPneuma: ghot is pronounced fish... in English of course...
the gh from enough
the o from women
and the t from portion (amongst numerous other words that could easily have fit in here)
Damn crazy language if you ask me for sure...
the gh from enough
the o from women
and the t from portion (amongst numerous other words that could easily have fit in here)
Damn crazy language if you ask me for sure...
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I learned English by just accepting it I believe.
You can't take it apart nor analyze it.
That is why children learn a new language so easy they just accept it.
I compared new words to the words of my first language, kids do not do this.
You can't take it apart nor analyze it.
That is why children learn a new language so easy they just accept it.
I compared new words to the words of my first language, kids do not do this.
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pyaremohan: hi maria..........n funny part.english was not the lang. of england originally
Oh, i had no idea....what was the original one?
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Xtabentun: Oh, i had no idea....what was the original one?
some gaelic dia.
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pyaremohan: some gaelic dia.
Gaelic
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pyaremohan: Gaelic
right 
Thanx!
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Xtabentun: Oh, i had no idea....what was the original one?
Dutch is my first language, now some German some S Africaner.
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hollandgirl: Dutch is my first language, now some German some S Africaner.
Great for you to start learning new ones! I had a thought you might look dutch but i was not sure
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Xtabentun: right
Thanx!
Thanx!
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Xtabentun: Great for you to start learning new ones!
I had a thought you might look dutch but i was not sure
I had a thought you might look dutch but i was not sure
Hollandgirl did not give me away? lol
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An Excerpt from the Introduction, by Richard Ledere
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 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? 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 blouse, 2 blice?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb through annals of history but not a single annal? 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? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. 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? Park on driveways and drive on parkways?
How can a "slim chance" and a "fat chance" be the same, while a "wise man" and "wise guy" are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while "quite a lot" and "quite a few" are alike? How can the weather be "hot as hell" one day and "cold as hell" another?
Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who are spring chickens or who would actually hurt a fly?
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 clock goes off by going on.
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, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it?
Now I know why I flunked my English. It's not my fault, the silly language doesn't quite know whether it's coming or going.