Return-Path: <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id j0LJ9wn23312; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:09:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:09:58 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <41F152F5.9020901@comcast.net> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Roberta McKnight <rkmcknight@comcast.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-AALPD:1926] English is so confusing! X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 2021 Lines: 65 Just for fun, I wanted to share the following: Let's face it, English is a crazy language. If we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. Can you read these correctly ... the first time? 1) The bandage was wound around the wound. 2) The farm was used to produce produce. 3) The landfill was so full, they had to refuse more refuse. 4) Please polish the Polish furniture. 5) He could be in the lead if he would get the lead out. 6) The soldier chose to desert his dessert in the desert. 7) Since there is no time like the present, it is 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 strange antics when does are around. 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 for us to wind the sail. 18) I shed a tear upon seeing the tear in the painting. 19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests. 20) I need to intimate this to my most intimate friend? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down; you fill in a form by filling it out and an alarm goes off by going on. English reflects the creativity of the human race, which is not a race at all. English is a work in progress, with new words and meanings evolving as we speak! Enjoy! Roberta McKnight Healthcare Multimedia Design http://www.hcmmdesign.net If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed? George Carlin
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