Have you ever wondered why foreigners have trouble with the English Language? Let's face it English is a stupid language. There is no egg in the eggplant No ham in the hamburger And neither pine nor apple in the pineapple. English muffins were not invented in England French fries were not invented in France. We sometimes take English for granted But if we examine its paradoxes we find that Quicksand takes you down slowly Boxing rings are square And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. If writers write, how come fingers don't fing. If the plural of tooth is teeth Shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth If the teacher taught,Why didn't the preacher praught. If a vegetarian eats vegetables What the heck does a humanitarian eat!?Why do people recite at a play Yet play at a recital? Park on driveways and Drive on parkways You have to marvel at the unique lunacy Of a language where a house can burn up as It burns down And in which you fill in a form By filling it out And a bell is only heard once it goes! 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 it is that when I wind up my watch It starts But when I wind up this observation,It ends.
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Omg...I don't understand Tbc.... dates of the band Lol.... but really I dont Rofl.... no I really won't FYI.... I'm very good Bogof... wish they would Pmsl.... No never do. Wtf.... Is wrong with you.
Pronounciation
If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world.
I Before E
E and I are poor confused letters, Don't know which order to go for the better. One will jump left, the other jump right, Still can't get the right way, try as they might.
Eye Halve A Spelling Checker
(I didn't write this poem, and I don't know who did. Enjoy anyone, and thank you to whoever did write it.
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@sark well that's because you were brought up with English if you had to learn it again it would be quite hard with verbs I all ready am learning 4 languages
@Eatonlynch no worry. But see, I can say, it's easy... After German, much easier! Hungarian is the 4th hardest language in the world, even Japanese comes after... So, maybe that's why languages are so easy for me, 'cause I'm native hard/complicated-language speaker...:D still, you're story is nicely written, but no language is stupid language!!!
@sark I know but there are some words in the English language that Doesn't make sense from the way it's spelled and Hungarian is the 4 Th. Hardest in the world ?! Well i guess you learn something every day :)
@Eatonlynch every language got silly worlds, those make it special! I've never understood why the hell do you need 2 worlds for fingers??? We've got "footfingers", you've got toes...:D lol and am I the only one who thought by the world "idiomic" that it's got something to do with idiotic???:D
I've read that French and Spanish is easy for native English speakers, so your challenge is Hebrew!:) I don't know anything about Irish thou... My next language will be Spanish or Russian, or both at the same time...:) so, shouldn't ya sleep, mister, it's late!:) I have to now...:) nightnight!;)
Actually, recent studies show that foreign countries actually speak our own language better than us.
@Eatonlynch people are more persons. So don't say "people is" XD @Earthbound you're funny!!!:D it's hard to believe, actually, but who knows...
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