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  • The English Language

    The English Language

    Have you ever wondered why foreigners have trouble with the English Language?

     

    Let's face it

    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!?

    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 observation,

    It ends.

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  • 原文地址:https://www.cnblogs.com/Shirly/p/1301180.html
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