Seeing as to how pOokPoOk needs some intelectually-stimulating-stimuli
N how Im such a great generous friend n all...
Got this thing in the mail.
Pretty cool. =)
Eventhough id rather have my other posts up as the newest ones to invite some comments, that doesnt seem to be happening, so i guess i'll put This up.
A post thats not about Him wud do some good. *grins*
English is a stupid language
There is no egg in the eggplant, no ham in the hamburger and neither pine,
nor apple in the pineapple. English muffins were not invented in England,
French fries were not invented in France. We sometimes take English for
granted. But if we examine its paradoxes we find that Quicksand takes you
down slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea
nor is it a pig. If writers write, how come fingers don't fing. If the
plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone
beeth. If the teacher taught, why didn't the preacher praught. If a
vegetarian eats vegetables, what the heck does a humanitarian eat!? a good
one, really! Why do people recite at a play yet play at a recital? Park on
driveways and drive on parkways. You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of
a language where a house can burn up as it burns down and in which you fill
in a form by filling it out. And a bell is only heard once it goes! English
was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the
human race (which of course isn't 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 it is that when I wind up my watch it starts but when I wind up this
story it ends? And some more food for "Thought". Do infants enjoy infancy as
much as adults enjoy adultery? If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker? Why is a person
who plays the piano called a pianist, but a person who drives a race car not
called a racist? Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites? Why do
overlook and oversee mean opposite things? If horrific means to make
horrible, does terrific mean to make terrible? Why isn't 11 pronounced onety
one? 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? Why is it
that if someone tells you that there are 1 billion stars in the universe you
will believe them, but if they tell you a wall has wet paint you will have
to touch it to be sure? If you take an Oriental person and spin him around
several times, does he become disoriented? If people from Poland are called
"Poles", why aren't people from Holland called "Holes?" And shouldn't the
offspring of Hungarian Polish parents be
a Hungry Pole?
*grins*
The part about the recital n the play was good. :)
Well i thought most of the whole thing was.
...hmm...
NEways, i hope this post by no means deters people from commenting in the last few... =p
~Allyssa~
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