"Why English is tough"

[slimtrop1]

Twenty-one reasons why English is hard to learn.

1. The bandage was wound around the wound.

2. The farm was used to produce produce.

3. The dump was so full it had to refuse more refuse.

4. We must polish the Polish furniture.

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

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

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

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

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

10. I did not object to the object.

11. The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12. There was a row among the oarsmen on how to row.

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

14. The buck does funny things when does are present.

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

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

17. The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18. After a number of injections my jaw got number.

19. Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

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

21. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

[rhiannon]

they confused me

[Shady's_Back]

Well I still turned out alright....!!

[lenaespiritodefogo]

FUCK, man what are you on about?? lol they are funny

[AspirinE]

english still is the easiest language in the world though, everyone knows it, except George bush though.

[C-Game]

english still is the easiest language in the world though, everyone knows it, except George bush though.

and the joke was funny lol

[herecomesme1990]

lol yep.. it was funny as fuck...

[Inches]

english still is the easiest language in the world though, everyone knows it, except George bush though.

it would be funny if it wasnt so true

[aiden669]

hhahaha

[Inzanity]

Lmao

[Curious]

A few more curiosities:

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 can work 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? One index, 2 indices?

You can make amends but not one amend, comb through annals of history but not a single annal?

If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them,
what do you call it?

If retired teachers taught, did retired 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?

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

[Ethos]

woah i got confused on some of those.

[ShadyGD26]

there so many double meanings to everything...thts y context matters....which is why I need to stop walking in on the middle of a conversation....life would be so much easier

[SemiShady]

UN agrees, if not first taught language. English is the hardest to learn. We do not have the easiest. its the hardest language

[AspirinE]

UN agrees, if not first taught language. English is the hardest to learn. We do not have the easiest. its the hardest language

You gotta be kidding me...
There is shit like this in every language.


Ive personally studied 4 languages and i speak 2 freely.. english is very easy to learn.


The english grammar chapter is like maybe half a thin book, it takes maybe a month to learn it. Other languages have more letters, more words, more grammar complexity.