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Quick English lesson.

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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?
 
#7
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
 
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Lee H said:
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
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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.
 
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Lee H said:
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
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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. :D I can't look at the US spellings of words like "colour" and "aluminium" without wincing.
 

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