Pardon me for my poor English, I really find it hard to learn English. You can blame me though, because English is really really hard to learn..
Why English so hard to learn?
1. The bandage was wound around the wound.
2. The farm was you used to produce produce.
3. The dump was so full that it had to refuse 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 present.
8. I did not object the object.
9. There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
10. They were to close to the door to close it.
11. Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
12. How can I intimate this to my intimate friend?
13. I shed me clothes in the shed.
Let’s face it. English is a ridiculous language. There is no egg in eggplant nor hamburger. Neither apple nor pin in pineapple. English muffins weren’t in England, nor French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candy 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 it is a pig. And why is it that bakers bake, but grocers don’t groce? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth, beeth?? One goose, two geese; so one moose, 2 meese? One index, two indices? If teachers taught, why didn’t the preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed into an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite a play at a recital? We ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance be the same, while a wise and a wise guy are a opposite?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burn down, in which you fill in form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes of by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn’t) at all.
That is why, when they are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And finally, how about when you want to shut down your computer you have to hit “START”.
@Credits As-Shams 2004, writer Najihah Hasanah Lukman.