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Reason why english is so hard to learn

  • 21-05-2002 10:26pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭


    Reasons That 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 that 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 is 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 about 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?

    22) The accountant at the music store records records of the records.


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,651 ✭✭✭Spunog UIE


    not exactly funny but eh...intresting?? ya notice ya pronounce most of these words differently with out even thinking. tis a fu<ked up lingo alrighty.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    apparently English is the hardest language to learn


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭Mistakill


    Im not sure. Apperantly Chinese is the hardest to learn. Apperantly German is the hardist to learn.

    Its hard to learn how to pronounce new words and symbols.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 536 ✭✭✭Spiffing


    English the hardest? Rubbish. It doesn't have femine or masculine like French or German. Japanese or Chinese is hardest, Japanese has like 3 alphabets or something around that number.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,335 ✭✭✭Cake Fiend


    Chinese would probably be hardest to learn due to what westerners would call the same word meaning totally different things depending on the inflections and tones.
    Japanese is very hard to learn to read and write (3 alphabets, thousands of characters), but Chinese has a hell of a lot of characters as well.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    Discovery Channels mistake then


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 437 ✭✭daveJAM


    German is supposedly piss easy to learn.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,503 ✭✭✭Makaveli


    Originally posted by Davjm
    German is supposedly piss easy to learn.

    It's not that difficult except the grammar. The grammar is a bitch, with 12 different cases of "the" and masculine, feminine, neuter. Singular, plural, dativ. It's a pain in the bollox.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭rymus


    I've been reliably informed that Russian is a rollocks to learn.. (just to add to the little language war going on at the mo)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭BTBB


    English is the hardest due to the number of exceptions in the language.

    BTBB


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭de5p0i1er


    intresting but not funny.


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