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English is Weird: Starting With the Word 'UP'
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| 3/1/18
| Lee Densmer
Posted on 02/24/2018 9:45:32 AM PST by V K Lee
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Something similar arrived in email today. Looking up a possible source, did find the above.
What's UP?
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posted on
02/24/2018 9:45:32 AM PST
by
V K Lee
To: V K Lee
That’s F’d UP...................
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posted on
02/24/2018 9:46:34 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
02/24/2018 9:47:22 AM PST
by
Truthoverpower
(The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
To: V K Lee
Something’s up. Don’t let in any more Muslims or Mexicans until they learn how to use the word “up” properly.
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posted on
02/24/2018 9:49:48 AM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: V K Lee
UP can be a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, and preposition. This two-letter word in English has more meanings than any other two-letter word. If you were to check, it is listed in the dictionary as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v]. Luke 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
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posted on
02/24/2018 9:49:52 AM PST
by
Ezekiel
( All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
To: V K Lee
What the hell are you UP to, posting this?
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posted on
02/24/2018 9:51:11 AM PST
by
House Atreides
(BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
To: V K Lee
Perdue has banned the word “man.” Actually, they’ve banned any word containing those letters such as “mailman”, “human”, “Manchester”, etc. One snowflake said Manchester should change it’s name.
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posted on
02/24/2018 9:52:17 AM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: Truthoverpower
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posted on
02/24/2018 9:52:49 AM PST
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: bgill
Uh-oh. What about “Saruman”?
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posted on
02/24/2018 9:54:23 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: bgill
Great! At least we won’t have to listen to them bitchin about mansplaining.
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posted on
02/24/2018 9:54:58 AM PST
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
To: Red Badger
Thats Fd UP...................
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Did anyone know that
F ornicate
U nder
A uthority
of the
K ing
only
That was a very unpopular Royal Proclimation.
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posted on
02/24/2018 9:58:07 AM PST
by
laplata
(Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: Red Badger
I Royally F’s that up. It was actually
F ornicate
U nder
C onsent
of the
K ing
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posted on
02/24/2018 10:02:16 AM PST
by
laplata
(Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: V K Lee
Was thinking about something like that the other day when I said to my lap-sitting cat:
"You have to get down so I can get up."
Of course she did have to actually get down so I could actually stand up. But I might have been thinking that I should stand down for some reason even though I was standing up. :-)
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posted on
02/24/2018 10:03:00 AM PST
by
Let's Roll
("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
To: V K Lee
Other languages have similar oddities to express the same concept, acabar de, for example. But what must be the most difficult thing for a non-English speaker to learn is how different the language is spoken as apart from its written form. Not only are many of the letters never pronounced, when they are, they usually come out far different, and without any consistency. Take “I can” for example. It’s universally pronounced Ikin, as if it were all one word and with a sort “i” in place of an “a”. Go figure.
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posted on
02/24/2018 10:04:07 AM PST
by
PUGACHEV
To: Let's Roll
Bet your cat had to get up to get down.
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posted on
02/24/2018 10:05:00 AM PST
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
To: bgill
Ah, but 'ManCHESTer' may also be offensive to those who are mammarily challenged'. So, to be politically correct, remove the 'Man' and remove the 'chest' and you are left with 'er'. But someone might be offended that 'er' is pronounced like 'her' and that too, is sexist. I guess that will have to go, too...
'Manchester' will from now on, cease to exist! It will now be known as the 'City With No Name'. 😂
To: V K Lee
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posted on
02/24/2018 10:07:16 AM PST
by
Cowboy Bob
("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
To: V K Lee
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posted on
02/24/2018 10:08:12 AM PST
by
unlearner
(You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
To: V K Lee
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posted on
02/24/2018 10:09:19 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: V K Lee
That’s pretty funny, but I believe Gallagher already approached the topic.
Only in each of those samples above, the word UP is wrong. Shouldn’t be there.
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posted on
02/24/2018 10:09:53 AM PST
by
Celerity
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