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Something to Ponder... “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 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 and 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, 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.” — via be-killed  "Men need to hunt. She obviously understands this. She’s offering herself as prey. Not easy prey. But willing.” |
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12/23/2019 11:32 am |
Hi everyone
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ali Yes! English is a complex language that makes it hard to learn.... A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw Jenny
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Men like to hunt, they even made it a sport. real men hunt, even when their prey is tied up and ready to be eaten
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And there's no I in team, but there's a ME  and of course there's a Semordnilap...meat.
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Pretty interesting.  A lot of exceptions (e. g. ox / oxen) were the norm long ago, but the language changed and they remained.
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Pretty interesting. "Men need to hunt. She obviously understands this. She’s offering herself as prey. Not easy prey. But willing.”
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