MARVEL AT THE UNIQUE LUNACY OF A LANGUAGE

Hello. 
Blogger decided to delete this post of mine too!
But yes i am doing it again coz i dont want you to miss this.
So, i got an email from this old friend which was titled- YOU THINK ENGLISH IS EASY?!


Well, i thought, why yes!
If you think that too, you are in for a twister sweethearts. :D
Here it goes.

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 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. Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

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.

Some more one liners!


The bandage was wound around the wound.          
                                                                       
The farm was used to produce produce.            

                                                           
The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
                               
                                        
We must polish the Polish furniture.             
                                                                       
He could lead if he would get the lead out.      
                                                                       
The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.                         
                                                           
Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.     
                                          
                                                           I did not object to the object.                             
                                                                       


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. 

Aren't we now, my dear English language???!! In spite of all said and done,  i still love you.


xoxo