Thu, Jan. 8th, 2004, 06:30 pm
[info]pzrk: angļu valodas īpatnības

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?



Reasons for why the English language can be quite hard to learn


  • The bandage was wound around the wound.

  • The farm was used to produce produce.

  • The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

  • We must polish the Polish furniture.

  • He could lead if he would get the lead out.

  • The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

  • Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

  • A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

  • When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

  • I did not object to the object.

  • The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

  • There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

  • They were too close to the door to close it.

  • The buck does funny things when the does are present.

  • A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

  • To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

  • The wind was too strong to wind the sail

  • After a number of injections my jaw got number.

  • I shed a tear when I saw the tear in the painting

  • I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

  • How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?



Gribi vēl?


  • 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.

  • Quicksand works 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?

  • 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? Is it an odd, or an end?

  • 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, is not 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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