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Why English is so Diffcult to understand and learn


So Language Brings us to gather but also Divides us. While I am Still Coping with the thought provoking,flabbergasting and at times completely dumbfounding words of anecdoes.

 I and My Mother always have a long discussion over the pronunciation of word with the syllable phony which make them sound alike.

 This also reminds me of the scene from Chupke Chupke (A Hindi Movie Block Buster from 1975)



wherein Dharmendra (one of the lead actors) recites a dialog
"Sir To to ho sakta hai Do do ho sakta hai toh Go Go kyun hota hai GOO Kyun nai?"

 Let's face it - English is a crazy language
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;
neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England .
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?
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?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English
should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.

In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
We ship by truck but send cargo by ship.
We have noses that run and feet that smell.
We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway.
And 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.


And in closing, if Father is Pop, how come Mother's not Mop?

And the young of a cat is always a kitten,
but the young of a rat is never a ritten
and conversely a kitten when older's a cat
so why isn't an older mitten a mat?

-Michele Brenton  

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