[SOC] Fwd: Why is English so hard to learn?

[Hank Kohl K8DD]

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>Why is English so hard to learn?
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>1 . The bandage was wound around the wound.
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>2 . The farm was used to produce produce.
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>3 . The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
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>4 . We must polish the Polish furniture.
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>5 . He could lead if he would get the lead out.
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>6 . The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
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>7 . Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to
>present the present.
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>8 . I did not object to the object.
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>9 . There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
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>10 . They were too close to the door to close it.
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>11 . Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
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>12 . How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
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>13 . I shed my clothes in the shed.
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>14. Let's face it - English is a ridiculous language.
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>We take English for granted:
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>There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in a hamburger; neither apple nor pine
>in a pineapple.
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>English muffins weren't invented in England, nor French fries in France.
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>Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
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>But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly,
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>Boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it
>a pig.
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>And why is it that bakers bake, but grocers don't groce?
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>If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth?
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>One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese?
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>If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
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>If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
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>Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum
>for the verbally insane.
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>In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
>We ship by truck and send cargo by ship
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>Have noses that run and feet that smell?
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>How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a
>wise guy are opposites?
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>You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which our 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.
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>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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>And finally, how about when you want to shut down your computer, you have to
>hit "START".


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