05-09-2003, 08:46 PM | #1 |
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So I'm sitting her pondering the meaning of life and a few questions pop to mind.
If the plural of Goose is geese, how come the plural of Moose isn't Meese? What about Mouse? There's lots of Mice, how come the there aren't lots of Hice in your neighborhood? What exactly is a pride? A pride of lions? Who came up with that one? What was the partridge doing in the pear tree to start with? Why did the chicken cross the road? What was on the other side? But, I digress...
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05-09-2003, 08:54 PM | #2 |
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Looks like you have just discovered the wonderful world of the English language.There are linguistic reasons behind how our language developed along those lines, but that is Bardan's thing not mine.
Bue you didn't want to hear all of that now, did you?
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Is there any wonder English is the hardest language in the world to learn?
I seem to remember some English back from my university days, although it wasn't my major and my proffessor was East Indian and impossible to understand with such a thick accent. I'm still curious about the partridge and the chicken though. [img]smile.gif[/img] And were was the farmer while the chicken was left running around loose on his/her own?
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05-09-2003, 09:42 PM | #5 |
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Did the chicken cross the road... or did the road move beneath the chicken? [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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05-09-2003, 11:08 PM | #6 |
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well, what's the difference between " Same but not similar " with " Similar but not the same " ?
how about this " Man eating dog " with " Dog eating man " ? [img]tongue.gif[/img] |
05-10-2003, 06:22 AM | #7 |
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Hmmm.... Well, I would suppose that [Same = Identical]. Whereas [Similar = Has common traits but not completely identical]. [img]graemlins/heee.gif[/img] [ 05-10-2003, 06:25 AM: Message edited by: Finn ]
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