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Old 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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Old 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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Old 05-09-2003, 09:00 PM   #3
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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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Old 05-09-2003, 09:21 PM   #4
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Is there any wonder English is the hardest language in the world to learn?
Thus speaks a person who has never attempted to learn Basque
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Old 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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Old 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]
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Old 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]



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Old 05-10-2003, 09:36 AM   #8
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quote:
Originally posted by Animal:
Is there any wonder English is the hardest language in the world to learn?
Thus speaks a person who has never attempted to learn Basque [/QUOTE]Or finnish. That and chinese are known to be very complex to learn. I can imagine myself in the shoes of a foreigner who comes to finland to seek for work, and has to learn the language.. deafinitely more difficult than english. No prepositions, for ex.. you add them to the end of the word, no a/the/he/she.. you determine them from the context. BUT now this is going off the subject. [img]smile.gif[/img] And as it´s said, english is easy to learn but difficult to master, and this is true...

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