THe english Language

[GameMaster]

Sentences like these hardly appear in everyday life. I understand them all but I can see where it would be hard for a foreigner to define and understand the words that are used more than once.

Hey, look on the bright side, at least the English language has only 26 letters.

[Jin]

Originally posted by sdtPikachu


Hey! The driver is MEANT to be on the right hand side...

I forgot that Europeans had their driver on the wrong side too.

[Angrist]

Originally posted by Jin


I forgot that Europeans had their driver on the wrong side too.

Wrong, only in Great Brittain.

And English isn't hard at all!! It's one of the easier languages to learn! French for example is a lot harder!!

I understood all of the lines, I just didn't know a couple of words (sow for example), but I could guess what kind of word it had to be. BTW all languages have such 'double' words.

Oh yeah, they say Dutch is even harder to learn than Japanese!!

[Ric]

Very good... not all properly structured sentances but hey they get the point across. I had no problem with reading them BTW.

Now whats this I hear about driving on the left, dont you get me started... too late:

Roads were pretty much derived to cater for the horse and cart, first used in medieval England, the first form of a road veachile in many respects. And we rode on the left then.

You guys go on driving on the 'right' side of the road, me I am happy with driving on the 'correct' side of the road thankyou very much

[Shadow_Link]

That... really wasn't confusing at all... Anyone who speaks English on a daily basis should not have a problem with sentences like those, let alone be confused.

*Runs away*.

[fingersman]

Originally posted by Angrist
Wrong, only in Great Brittain.

And English isn't hard at all!! It's one of the easier languages to learn! French for example is a lot harder!!

I understood all of the lines, I just didn't know a couple of words (sow for example), but I could guess what kind of word it had to be. BTW all languages have such 'double' words.

Oh yeah, they say Dutch is even harder to learn than Japanese!!

Well a sow is a female pig and before I forget on my island we drive on the left hand side....I made a mistake in my last post, I thought you were talking about which side of the car the driver was on. hehehehe
Silly me

[BlueFire]

English isn't that difficult. I make mistakes from time to time and I learn from them.


Now...Spanish...I was born in the USA into a Spanish family...and I spoke Spanish perfectly. As I grew up, I assimilated. Now, I don't speak Spanish very well. I can still speak and read Spanish. Writing in Spanish takes some effort. Heh...It's sometimes embarrassing to call me a Hispanic.

[Revival]

Originally posted by BLueFire
Heh...It's sometimes embarrassing to call me a Hispanic.

It's embarrassing to call you anything

[playa_playa]

The problem with such sentences is that the verb also act as a subjective noun. Hence, it sounds redundant when read. They are generally considered a stylistic flaw by many linguists and grammarians.

For example:

"I smell the smell."

The verb and the subjective noun are identical. Hence, it leaves itself to confusion and opacity. It is better to avoid these types of structures as it is better to not split infinitives, use expletive beginnings and conditional conjunctions.

Every language has its idiosyncratic obscurities. English seems to be more logical in its speech (probably due to its Latin roots) than most other languages to me - which makes learning the language seemigly easier than others.

[Angrist]

It's funny how some words are pronounced differently:

I object to the object.
He could lead if he'd get the lead out.
The bandage was wound around the wound.

[TheGrimReaper]

And we get frustrated at other languages.

[Ric]

Heres another one for you:

It's no use, I just can't use it.

There ya go

[Angrist]

I'm going to see two people too, is that too much??

[gekko]

Originally posted by Shooter
I probably wouldn't suck at driving so much if I was on the right side.. I have a tendency to go towards the white line...

You might not suck so much if you realized there's more than one white line on the road

But ya, I think everyone tends to move right when they start driving. Since you don't really know where your car is in the lane, you notice the cars on your left side passing by, and if you get too close you will hit them, so your basic survival instinct tells you to stay right and have the other side get hit.

Just a hint: find something to line up with the lines. On most cars, the edge of the hood can line up with the left line and you're pretty much centered. And when you know your centered, line the right line up with something on your car. My car happens to be the right sprayer on the hood, others have the line on the hood, etc. Just find an object on the left and right side of the car, and then when you drive, line your car up with those, and you should have better luck staying in the center of the lane.

If you drove on the right side of the car, you would go towards the left side of the lane.

[Revival]

Thanks gekko, my dad told me the same thing. The corner of the windshield lines right up with the yellow line, then I am centered.

But thanks