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naughtyandnasty
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blythe, California, US
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English is very strange
Did you know that "verb" is a noun?
How can you look up words in a dictionary if you can't spell them?
If a word is misspelled in a dictionary, how would we ever know?
If two mouses are mice and two louses are lice, why aren't two houses hice?
If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?
If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue?
If you've read a book, you can reread it. But wouldn't this also mean that you would have to "member" somebody in order to remember them?
In Chinese, why are the words for crisis and opportunity the same?
Is it a coincidence that the only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable?
Is there another word for a synonym?
Shouldn't there be a shorter word for "monosyllabic"?
What is another word for "thesaurus"?
Where do swear words come from?
Why can't you make another word using all the letters in "anagram"?
Why do fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing?
Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?
Why do people use the word "irregardless"?
Why do some people type "cool" as "kewl?"
Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?
Why do we say something's out of order when its broken but we never say in of order when it works?
Why does "cleave" mean both split apart and stick together?
Why does "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing?
Why does flammable and inflammable mean the same thing?
Why does the Chinese ideogram for trouble symbolize two women living under one roof?
Why does X stand for a kiss and O stand for a hug?
Why doesn't "onomatopoeia" sound like what it is?
Why don't we say "why" instead of "how come"?
Why is "crazy man" an insult, while to insert a comma and say "Crazy, man!" is a compliment?
Why are a wise man and wise guy opposites?
Why is abbreviation such a long word?
Why is dyslexic so hard to spell?
Why is it so hard to remember how to spell MNEMONIC?
Why is it that no word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple?
Why is it that the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary?
Why is it that we recite at a play and play at a recital?
Why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
Why is the plural of goose-geese, and not the plural of moose-meese?
Why isn't "palindrome" spelled the same way backwards?
Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds
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| April 7, 2006, 05:12 |
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| April 7, 2006, 05:22 |
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Re: English is very strange
I can't answer all these questions, BUT here's something to help you out:
"monosyllabic", "thesaurus", "anagram", "onomatopoeia", "dyslexic", "mnemonic", "palindrome" and "phonetic" are all greek words... go figure...
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| April 7, 2006, 05:31 |
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Re: English is very strange
Sounds about right...LOL...
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| April 7, 2006, 05:42 |
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funlovingpair
58 / couple
Frozen Tundra, Minnesota, US
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| April 7, 2006, 11:42 |
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Chupacabra
44 / male
north Al, Alabama, US
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Re: English is very strange
Because it is a complicated launguage.With new words emerging everyday.It is imposible to master the english launguage.
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| April 9, 2006, 20:47 |
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doneff
40 / male
Sayreville, New Jersey, US
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Re: English is very strange
I disagree, English is may be one of the easiest languages, there are about 600,000 words while other languages have over 2-3 millions, just an example.The grammar is not that hard, you stick to couple of basic rules and you are ok. Take Spanish, for example, masculine and feminine differentiation makes it hard, but there is no such thing in English. The Chinese language has about 5,000 thousand letter alphabet, give that a try  And you dont need to be a genius to understand those word up there... it's basic knowledge of prefixes and suffixes, and may be some roots
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| April 10, 2006, 00:47 |
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Re: English is very strange
Exactly doneff, and it's not only the masculine/feminine differentiation, it's also the verb endings that change depending on the person. All the latin-based languages, French, Spanish, Italian have that.
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| April 11, 2006, 03:16 |
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