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Posted on 12/31/2001 9:36:55 PM PST by Rowdee
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To: xm177e2
I agree with you...even on the best days, it seems like there is too much 'junk' going there!
Have a nice New Year...
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posted on
12/31/2001 10:03:38 PM PST
by
Rowdee
To: Rowdee
A couple of years ago someone sent the bottom part of this article, and I posted it and got flamed for it. By the pros at that time. That was the first time I was flamed. But others came to the rescue.
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posted on
12/31/2001 10:03:43 PM PST
by
RJayneJ
To: tbeatty
It seems like if you get on something its usually something large, like a bus, but when you get in something its usually something small, like a car.
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posted on
12/31/2001 10:04:12 PM PST
by
Husker24
To: Husker24
If Eskimos have 23 different words for snow and/or ice, do the English have 23 different words to express how the lift (elevator) is out of order? At least the French have hundreds and hundreds of words for cheese.
To: Cultural Jihad
Already covered in the article. Do try to keep up.
To: coloradan
Im confused about the elevator comment.
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posted on
12/31/2001 10:06:22 PM PST
by
Husker24
To: struwwelpeter
Die Wiener Waschweiber wollen weisse waeshche waschen
Isn't that what the witch doctor said?
To: Husker24
With all its flaws, Enlish still beats Japanease, hell they have like 2500 letters in their alphabet. I wonder what their keyboards look like. They look the same:
Err, like this:
Lots of chording, I guess ;)
To: Rowdee
English is a great language - OTOH somehow we only have one word for love. Then again, we also only have one word for "you." And Mark Twain said "I'd rather decline two free meals than one German (forgot what goes here).
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posted on
12/31/2001 10:07:25 PM PST
by
185JHP
To: RichInOC
Actually, Rich, I have several of these sorts of lists stashed on discs in anticipation of getting a new computer. My old boss (part of the carlbob source)sent most of this to me in emails. I've been debating what to do with it....and when the 3 different uses of the word "present" in a sentence hit me, I figured out that the way our language has been bastardized coupled with these examples, is it any wonder that a world in which English has become the international language there would be people that hate us--might as well be this as whatever the President said or because of foreign policy.
And, of course, it was done with a look at a little gayness to celebrate the New Year. :)
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posted on
12/31/2001 10:08:50 PM PST
by
Rowdee
To: coloradan
Hey....good ones!
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posted on
12/31/2001 10:09:33 PM PST
by
Rowdee
To: Rowdee
Calling a person who sews a "sewer" is just stupid, and it's a by-product of our PC age. The correct term is "seamstress".
And a male seamstress is just sad. :)
To: Husker24
With all its flaws, Enlish still beats Japanease, hell they have like 2500 letters in their alphabet.
Its not the words, its the spelling you have to worry about. :)
To: general_re
Maybe they use some type of Japanease shorthand while typing.
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posted on
12/31/2001 10:12:55 PM PST
by
Husker24
To: Rowdee
English is easy. You don't know s**t about s**t!
To: 185JHP
"I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective."
- Mark Twain, from "The Awful German Language"
One of my favorites ;)
To: Rowdee
Since pro is the opposite of con the opposite of progress must be congress! ( See, it's not so hard sometimes! )
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posted on
12/31/2001 10:15:58 PM PST
by
Nateman
To: america76
Yes!....sh*t is an almost universal Enlish word you can put it in front or behind almost any word and it will make since. dumb sh*t, sh*t load, sh*t hole, piece of sh*t, sh*t head.
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posted on
12/31/2001 10:16:16 PM PST
by
Husker24
To: Tony in Hawaii
And a male seamstress is just sad Would a male seamstress be a "seamster"? Could a woman truck-driver be a "Teamstress"?
To: Rowdee
Flammable and inflammable are synonyms.
When's the last time you heard of anyone being gruntled, couth or combobulated?
There are a number of words like 'dust' 'moot' and 'with' that can mean exactly opposite things. (e.g., We fought with (alongside) the British in WWII; we fought with (against) the Germans in WWII.)
BTW, I agree with the earlier post thanking you for not posting this in "Breaking News" -- two clues: it's not news, and it's not breaking.
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posted on
12/31/2001 10:21:11 PM PST
by
Sloth
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