Wednesday, December 27, 2006

ENGLISH IS SUCH A DIFFICULT LANGUAGE

During the weekend, i caught up with some reading.
Came across this article which is rather appealing and
sharing here with you all.

There is no egg in eggplant,
neither pine nor apple in pineapple,
and no ham in hamburger.

writer writes, but fingers dont fing,
grocers dont groce, and hammers dont ham?

If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldnt the plural
of booth be beeth?
One goose, two geese - so one moose, two meese?
One index, two indices - one Kleenex, two Kleenices ?

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
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 opposite?

How can overlook and oversee be opposites,
while quite a lot and quite a few are alike?

How can the weather be hot as hell one day
and cold as hell the next?

You fill in a form by filling it out,
while your alarm clock goes off by going on?

English reflects the creativity of the human race
(which, of course isnt really a race at all). That is
why, when stars are out they are visible, but when
the lights are out they are invisible. And why, when
I wind up my watch I start it, but when I wind up
this, I end it.

Waaah.. i really marvel at the uniqueness of ENGRISH.
i was blur reading it at first, and in the end i am LOST.

9 Comments:

At Wednesday, December 27, 2006 10:44:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nothing can beat the Malaysian kind. Manglish, chinglish and apa..glish. All can understand, from a six years old kid to a 80 years old gran.

 
At Wednesday, December 27, 2006 11:30:00 PM, Blogger rainbow angeles said...

Marry KissMerc!
;)

 
At Thursday, December 28, 2006 10:54:00 AM, Blogger sun, moon & star said...

Malaysian English is the best!! So chapalang also can get the message across.
Moon

 
At Thursday, December 28, 2006 12:33:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

dont worry, i am as blur as you after reading LOL ..keep it up, Happy 2007 !

 
At Saturday, December 30, 2006 9:02:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

i only know,
one ball, two balls!! hahahaa

HAPPY NEW YEAR, dreamie!!

 
At Sunday, December 31, 2006 7:36:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Happy New Year, Moong cha cha!
May you be blessed with plenty of confusing english words! LOL

 
At Tuesday, January 02, 2007 12:06:00 AM, Blogger dreamie said...

(sori for the late reply. just got back home now. People got national serbis, but i went for voluntary serbis down south.)


gusty - Malaysia boleh !

angel - :} ... happi nEW yEAR !!

mOOn - ya including the humsap ones kekkeke..

annoy - :) hAPPY nEW yEAR !

ah pek - sybas :}
Happy New Year to you too !!

cocka - sama sama happi nEW yEAR :}

 
At Thursday, January 18, 2007 10:20:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

OMG...I REALLY LOVE THIS poem..

the hidden meaning from the words.

 
At Saturday, January 27, 2007 9:39:00 PM, Blogger dreamie said...

mirror - glad you love it. !.. Engrish is such a wonderful language ... :)

 

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