Quick English lesson.

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Dear America... | David Mitchell's SoapBox - YouTube

(thought it could be relevant as I see the first example being used here quite often!)

[Tituscrow]

I love David Mitchell. Hugely under appreciated comedy writer.

[warnergt]

Reasons Why The English Language Is Hard To Learn:

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?

[EBodious]

so, how do y'all say 'research' and what do you call a sidewalk?

[L-A]

Originally Posted by warnergt

Reasons Why The English Language Is Hard To Learn:

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[Darkstrike]

Originally Posted by EBodious

so, how do y'all say 'research'

Res-ear-ch.

Originally Posted by EBodious

and what do you call a sidewalk?

Stridin' Guideline.

[Lee H]

a couple centuries back we applied boot to collective british posterior. They went home and cried in their tea.
Now they make retaliatory complaints when we improve their language... Ok, I can understand that, so long as I am not supposed to do so, without laughing at them

[L-A]

Originally Posted by Lee H

a couple centuries back we applied boot to collective british posterior. They went home and cried in their tea.
Now they make retaliatory complaints when we improve their language... Ok, I can understand that, so long as I am not supposed to do so, without laughing at them

This is exactly how history went.

Also, self-measured improvement is a reliable indicator of superiority. All Americans are thriving, thanks their better English, their proper use of capitalization, commas, and their sensible addition of ellipses.

[Kwesi]

This video is the best thing since English was created.

[Lee H]

Originally Posted by L-A

This is exactly how history went.

Also, self-measured improvement is a reliable indicator of superiority. All Americans are thriving, thanks their better English, their proper use of capitalization, commas, and their sensible addition of ellipses.

glad you agree

[Rush-2112]

Originally Posted by L-A

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

My head hurts.

[Southpaw5]

We're your hot ex-girlfriend who found a new sugar daddy....







China

[i_got_a_mohawk]

That hot new sugar daddy whose ideals you were at war with only a generation ago

Man, some broads give up anything for cash

[Rusty Chainsaw]

Originally Posted by Lee H

a couple centuries back we applied boot to collective british posterior. They went home and cried in their tea.
Now they make retaliatory complaints when we improve their language... Ok, I can understand that, so long as I am not supposed to do so, without laughing at them

Frankly, Britain had more pressing matters to deal with in the late 1700s and early 1800s than some unruly colonists in the New World - namely, the much closer to home threat of the impending Napoleonic and Barbary Wars, not to mention various smaller wars in Africa and the further expansion of Britain's Indian interests.

America didn't improve the English language, they broke it. Personally, I think Noah Webster was dyslexic. Nothing to do with wanting a more refined form of the language for his American English dictionary, he just couldn't spell. I can't look at the US spellings of words like "colour" and "aluminium" without wincing.

[shadowtippy]

There is something wrong with a language when you have to get to the tenth letter of a word to know how to pronounce the first nine:
Aristocrat
Aristocracy

[MatticusMania]

Oh how the true ruling forces are laughing at your divisive dribble...

It won't matter soon enough, we'll all the world over be speaking American English and paying off our debt with the Euro.

[Anthbass]

Originally Posted by MatticusMania

Oh how the true ruling forces are laughing at your divisive dribble...

It won't matter soon enough, we'll all the world over be speaking American English and paying off our debt with the Euro.

Exchange 'American english' with 'South Asian language' and 'Euro' with 'RMB' and I think you may have it right.