Michael 
Wenn Du es machst, dann mach es cool!
Registration Date: 30.08.2004
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Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn
[a].- The bandage was wound around the wound.
[b].- The farm was used to produce produce.
[c].- The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
[d].- We must polish the Polish furniture.
[e].- He could lead if he would get the lead out.
[f].- The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
[g].- Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
[h].- A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
[i].- When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
[j].- I did not object to the object.
[k].- The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
[l].- There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
[m].- They were too close to the door to close it.
[n].- The buck does funny things when the does are present.
[o].- A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
[p].- To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
[q].- The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
[r].- After a number of injections my jaw got number.
[s].- Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
[t].- I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
[u].- How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
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 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?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? 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? 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.
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higichan
Cuban Drug Dealer
Registration Date: 23.08.2004
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English area??? I thought there will be never such an area. Ce, you said it isn't worth it. 
__________________ Doug: Du weist ich liebe dich wie du bist - nüchtern, betrunken, gemein, nett!
Carrie: Oh danke, mein Schatz! Ich liebe dich auch wie du bist. Fett! Wirklich fett! Minus fünf Kilo und trotzdem fett!
Kevin James : Ich bin nicht schwul, aber ich weiß jetzt: Will Smith kann einen rattenscharf machen! 
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31.05.2005 15:06 |
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higichan
Cuban Drug Dealer
Registration Date: 23.08.2004
Posts: 1,952
Herkunft: Velburg/Oberpfalz/Ba
yern
Lieblingsfolge: 68 Außer Rand und Band
Film: u.a. Spiel mir das Lied vom Tod, Der Name der Rose
Serie: King of Queens, Desperate Housewives, Monk
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Original von CeKilleR
some of the actors in the series might post in our forums - that would be nice, eh? |
That would be nice, yeah !! 
__________________ Doug: Du weist ich liebe dich wie du bist - nüchtern, betrunken, gemein, nett!
Carrie: Oh danke, mein Schatz! Ich liebe dich auch wie du bist. Fett! Wirklich fett! Minus fünf Kilo und trotzdem fett!
Kevin James : Ich bin nicht schwul, aber ich weiß jetzt: Will Smith kann einen rattenscharf machen!
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31.05.2005 15:20 |
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LeBron
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Original von CeKilleR
But as i mentioned above, there are reasons now. some of the actors in the series might post in our forums - that would be nice, eh? |
I don't think so. 
This post has been edited 2 time(s), it was last edited by LeBron on 31.05.2005 15:31.
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