Why English is tough
Jade_Butterfly
Posts: 2,963 Member
Twenty-one reasons why English is 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 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 was 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 on how to row.
13. They were too close to the door to close it.
14. The buck does funny things when 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.
21. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
1. The bandage was wound around the wound.
2. The farm was used to produce produce.
3. The dump was so full 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 was 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 on how to row.
13. They were too close to the door to close it.
14. The buck does funny things when 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.
21. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
0
Replies
-
Ahh Ill admit I had to read a few of them more than once to get it to sound right lol0
-
Awesome!0
-
Hahaha i love this!0
-
I love this so much! Their, there and they're! Hahaha0
-
AWESOME!0
-
LOL this is pretty cool..didn't even think about most of these0
-
I never really noticed how f'd up English is until I started teaching my son how to read and write. I have a whole new love for teachers!
0 -
Ahh Ill admit I had to read a few of them more than once to get it to sound right lol
Seriously. .it was like oh crap double take!0 -
bump0
-
I had to read them out loud!
I learned English when I was 6-7, and still tend to "lose" my English when I'm nervous etc.0 -
lol nice0
-
Seriously, English makes no sense.0
-
I love English.
0 -
I teach EAL and other foreign languages and have some of these up outside my classroom to show the English kids how hard their own language is
0 -
If I may augment/alter #20:
"I had to subject the subject to correct the sentence subject."0 -
You forgot the MFP classic: "You lose weight to get loose clothes" 0
-
Clever. I find it interesting how you automatically change pronunciation based on context. I didn't notice it until it failed me on 'number.'0
-
When I used to teach English, this was my favourite:
========================================
I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, lough and through?
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird,
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead -
For goodness sake don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).
A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there's dose and rose and lose -
Just look them up - and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword,
And do and go and thwart and cart -
Come, come, I've hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive!
I'd mastered it when I was five!0 -
Honestly I just learned to improve my English writing a few years ago but until now I still can't speak it without twisting my tongue. I always fall asleep during our English class before. :yawn:0
-
Wow0
-
When I taught English in Poland, I realized one day that while there are only two ways to spell the "oo" sound in Polish, we have at least six in English. Why? I remember teaching my advanced students how to spell "fish" as "ghoti". Gh = the f sound (like in rough), o = the i sound (like in women), ti = the sh sound (like in ration). English is a funny language.0
-
A couple of them don't work in "American", but VERY cool.When I used to teach English, this was my favourite:
========================================
I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
...
A dreadful language? Man alive!
I'd mastered it when I was five!0 -
I couldn't decide whether the weather would be fine....
How do you spell FISH?
GHOTI!
Gh - Enough
O - Women
ti - Station.0 -
When I used to teach English, this was my favourite:
========================================
I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, lough and through?
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird,
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead -
For goodness sake don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).
A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there's dose and rose and lose -
Just look them up - and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword,
And do and go and thwart and cart -
Come, come, I've hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive!
I'd mastered it when I was five!
Totally love this!0 -
You forgot the MFP classic: "You lose weight to get loose clothes"
Indeed:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:0
This discussion has been closed.
Categories
- All Categories
- 1.4M Health, Wellness and Goals
- 393.4K Introduce Yourself
- 43.8K Getting Started
- 260.2K Health and Weight Loss
- 175.9K Food and Nutrition
- 47.4K Recipes
- 232.5K Fitness and Exercise
- 426 Sleep, Mindfulness and Overall Wellness
- 6.5K Goal: Maintaining Weight
- 8.5K Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
- 153K Motivation and Support
- 8K Challenges
- 1.3K Debate Club
- 96.3K Chit-Chat
- 2.5K Fun and Games
- 3.7K MyFitnessPal Information
- 24 News and Announcements
- 1.1K Feature Suggestions and Ideas
- 2.6K MyFitnessPal Tech Support Questions