Witty, but the truth.

I found this in my random internet searches.


If you've learned to speak fluent English, you must be a genius!
Pursue at your leisure, English lovers. Reasons why the English language is so 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 that 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 is 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 about how to row.
13. They were too close to the door to close it.
14. The buck does funny things when the 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?

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 (surprise!).

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 two geese, so one moose, two 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.

P.S. Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"?

Interesting....

I must be a genius!

English is one of the hardest language to master. =P

Thats a sweet search.. He he ... English is supposed to be the easiest language one can learn really .. the other ones are just a pain ..trust me on that.

Bleh, my english teacher would be like omfg

This would have stumped my english teachers probably...

But I was under the impression english was so hard because it consisted of so many words from foreign languages.

Well, for the most part you're right about English being the hardest to learn. That is...if you're talking about proper English and not that slang bullshit out there on the streets today.

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Originally Posted by Nuklear

English is one of the hardest language to master. =P

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Try Swedish.

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Originally Posted by Iron Maiden

Well, for the most part you're right about English being the hardest to learn. That is...if you're talking about proper English and not that slang bullshit out there on the streets today.

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But how many people do you meet a day that speaks english correctly without slang......

Correct english is a dieing language lol.

I thought I'd put in my 2 cents.


English is only difficult to learn if it is not your first language. Some people get it right away whilst others have a harder time. When English is your first language the European languages are easiest to learn while Latin and the Asian languages can give you a hard time. Trust me with Latin......oy vey!

Why is that? Well because English is just screwed up(how many grammatical rules are there? like 6000? or maybe it's 60,000; did I need to make those numbers into number numbers to numb the mind into more complacency as in sixty-thousand rather than 60,000....the words makes the number seem so numb). Bleh! I hated that numbers and number one.



It's hard for Europeans/Asians to learn English because English is just...English. Hard for us to learn Latin because Latin can have a verb in front of a direct object with the indirect object behind the noun which is in front of the verb in front of the indirect object....you get the point. Annoying just is Latin so=Latin is just so annoying. :O

I type too much....

Wow...

Thats a little more then 2 cents o.o

more like 200 dollars :P glad to see you posting again, saden.
the first part of your post Jare, those words are called "homonyms". That's a word that is spelled the same, but with a different pronunciation (like the opposite of homophone).

Hm, I don't really caring about the way to speak 100% correct English, I just want people are able to understand me. =]

About the 'poem', it's rather nerdish but also a bit cool. xD

A guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
Lol, makes me think about Spiderpig.

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the hardest word to say if your not from an english speaking country is 'squirrel'. some americans and australians have problems because of their accent but anyone from any other country cant say it at all. it even got me 2 hours of detention from my french teacher beacuse i forced her to say it.

Lol interesting

if you want to struggle over your tongue :P

Great, hehe. In the Swedish language there are problems like this one aswell, for example:

Vart tog v

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the hardest word to say if your not from an english speaking country is 'squirrel'. anyone from any other country cant say it at all.

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Not rly :) I can say it.

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it even got me 2 hours of detention from my french teacher beacuse i forced her to say it.

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Haha nice one there :D Totally worth it.

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the hardest word to say if your not from an english speaking country is 'squirrel'. some americans and australians have problems because of their accent but anyone from any other country cant say it at all. it even got me 2 hours of detention from my french teacher beacuse i forced her to say it.

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I'm going to try that on the next French person I see :tongue:

Its just getting the correct words in the right context, its easy. and plus im from england so =P

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Well, for the most part you're right about English being the hardest to learn. That is...if you're talking about proper English and not that slang bullshit out there on the streets today.

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Aye, I agree with this for sure.

LoL, my English teacher has brought something similar to this to the lesson once.

Yea things like this definitely make English an insane language to learn. I can't really tell tho since even though English is my second language i learned it at the age of 5 so it may as well be my first language. It isn't the hardest language to learn tho, trust me. I'm taking freakin Chinese. Now thats an insane language. Speaking is hard due to tones, Writing is hard well for obvious reason and the grammar is hell.

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Try Swedish.

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Try Danish ^^

One of the hardest languages to lean, cus we got some other letters than all or u other contries...


But i think the hardest ang, is a special african language, where u use different sounds instead of words (A little like beatbox if u understand)

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French fries in France (surprise!).

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We say chips not french fries thats american =P

Cba looking at the whole post but german was more annoying imo... 27 different words for "the" O.o

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