Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn:

[Thrush]

Just had to post this


Reasons why the English language is so 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?

There is neither 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. Quicksand works 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? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? Is it an odd, or an end? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? 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 a wise guy are opposites? 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 goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

[Fusen]

haha nice post

like the last paragraph better than the 10 list tho ;P

[Pegasus]

I remember being told as a child (by an English teacher), that the English language was the hardest language throughout the entire world to master correctly.

[{{909}}]

it may be the hardest to "master" but i think its pretty easy to use in an everyday way, that paragraph in the original post is riddled with errors, i can see that and my level of english is pretty basic, but they are not big enough errors to affect its readability, i dont thing other languages are quite so forgiving.

[MercuryRises]

A lot of asian languages (Thai, Mandarin, Vietnamese etc) are real bastards to learn, if a word is pronounced incorrectly it can totally change the meaning of the word for example, in Thai the word MAI can mean: mile, wood, not, new or silk depending on the inflection used.

So I reckon English probably isn't the hardest language to learn, But it's gotta be up in the top 5.

[dan288]

You've got to get the old folks home to the old folks home

[4me2]

I remember being told as a child (by an English teacher), that the English language was the hardest language throughout the entire world to master correctly.

Your teacher obviously never tried German then.

[ElWappo]

It’s the ambiguous traits of the English language which make it so much fun. It lends it self to comedy, practically invents satire and allows for freedom of expression. Regretfully I don’t speak a second language but my mother speaks four and says that no other language she knows makes use of wordplay in the same flexible way.