07-27-2004, 08:26 AM | #1 |
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> >>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? > >> > >>Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is neither 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. > >> > >>We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find > that > >>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 boot beeth. > >> > >>One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? > >> > >>One index, 2 indices? 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, an odd or an end? > >> > >>If teachers taught, why don't preachers praught? > >> > >>If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? > >> > >>Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an > >asylum > >>for the verbally insane. 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. > >> > >>And why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick?" [ 07-27-2004, 08:26 AM: Message edited by: Vaskez ]
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07-27-2004, 08:38 AM | #2 | |
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LOL! That`s funny Vask! [img]smile.gif[/img]
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07-27-2004, 08:55 AM | #3 |
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Wow... Those were funny [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]
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07-27-2004, 09:55 AM | #4 |
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Good ole english...I avoid most of those by talking in bigger words!
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07-27-2004, 10:08 AM | #5 |
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hmm, I had no trouble reading it [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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07-27-2004, 10:27 AM | #6 |
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you're not supposed to have trouble reading it!!
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07-27-2004, 11:15 AM | #7 |
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all makes sense to me!
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07-27-2004, 11:41 AM | #8 |
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i like number 7..
im just trying to imagine a bunch of aliens or in the future when another language is dominant, historians will have one hell of a time figuring out how to understand proper english.
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07-27-2004, 02:07 PM | #9 | |
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That's a cool list, there!
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07-27-2004, 02:47 PM | #10 |
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English is a very strange language, if you think about it.
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