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English is the most widely used language in the history of our planet. One in every 7 humans can speak it. More than half of the world's books and 3 quarters of international mail is in English. Of all the languages,it has the largest vocabulary - perhaps as many as 2 MILLION words. Nonetheless, let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies 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 is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb thru annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preacher praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue?

Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?

Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who ARE spring chickens or who would ACTUALLY hurt a fly?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm clock goes off by going on.

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, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it.

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Psst, this is the Halo2 forum, not english class.

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i love you Y

[Edited on 8/8/2004 6:27:10 PM]

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It's ok, take some pills, have a drink and go to bed.

  • 08.08.2004 6:27 PM PDT

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Yeah the English language is for sure the craziest one out there. It is by FAR the hardest one for non-english speaking people to learn.

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Posted by: Gpappy
i love you Y


dont we all

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Let's make this Halo 2 related because letting it die would be a waste of such an insightful thread. Grunts should definitely learn more colorful English words.

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Posted by: eastlaw
Let's make this Halo 2 related because letting it die would be a waste of such an insightful thread. Grunts should definitely learn more colorful English words.


lets not

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maybe some of these homos will relize halo is not everything, and there is life outside of bungie.

i fuc king hate all these people

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Posted by: Gpappy
maybe some of these homos will relize halo is not everything, and there is life outside of bungie.

i fuc king hate all these people


gravy

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davester do you like men?

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We all know that. Just in the Flood Forum. I barely spend time here as it is.

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Posted by: Egyptian Jackal
davester do you like men?


only in the morning

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Posted by: Gpappy
maybe some of these homos will relize halo is not everything, and there is life outside of bungie.

i fuc king hate all these people


No one is under this delusion. You're the one who needs to get off the crapper. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. You are on a freaking HALO 2 FORUM on BUNGIE.NET!!!

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Haha thats good -blam!-.
The only thing is, English, or American, is derived from so many different things, lots of it DOESNT make sense, so whatever.

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Well it is not the Halo or Bungie is our life it is just that in this forum there should only be Halo 2.

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Posted by: Cypriss
Well it is not the Halo or Bungie is our life it is just that in this forum there should only be Halo 2.


Halo 2 is kinda hard to put in a forum, you know?

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HAY, I MASTERED THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE WHEN I WAS LIKE FIVE, IT ISN'T HARD, IF PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD CONPLAIN THAT ENGLISH IS SO HARD TO LEARN, I SAY DON'T LEARN IT. THEIR JUST UPSET WE HAVE A BETTER HARDER TO LEARN LANGUAGE THEN THEM. SO SUCK IT.

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Engrish iS soooo eesy dude, and try two stay on topick nex tym!!!1!1!

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Posted by: Ericimo
Engrish iS soooo eesy dude, and try two stay on topick nex tym!!!1!1!


I know it is. It's just people everwhere are always saying it's the hardest.

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Good post.

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Posted by: Terran
Good post.


spanks a million

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what does 88 signify...something from back to the future, perhaps? :)

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Once this baby hits 88 MPH you're gonna see some serious sh it.

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Actually English is the third most spoken language. For those who don't believe me, Google It!!!

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