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Posted on 12/31/2001 9:36:55 PM PST by Rowdee
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To: Husker24
Yes, but they have NO word for nausia. :-)
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posted on
01/01/2002 12:32:12 AM PST
by
Marie
To: HighWheeler
I've studied the English language for years--forty or so, to be exact. It is truly an illogical language yet somehow we manage to make use of it! This is nothing short of a miracle, don't you think? Your comments and those of others made my New Year's Day! I laughed heartily--thank god it isn't lungingly--the most I've laughed since Sept.11. Thank y'all so much!
To: tbeatty
My dear, if you try to make sense out of the English language, you will be crazy before you do. One explanation of it: English is a combination of many, many languages. English speakers are not like the French who will not accept words from another language even when they describe the subject better than the French words. But English speakers will take words from any language and pronounce them as they please and spell them in any way imaginable! Thus,the English language consists of a million words. The French have less than 100,000. (Give us English speakers your old, tired, worn, weird words and cast them upon our shores. We will absorb them in one way or another. It makes no difference to us!)
To: Rowdee
In 1869, John Schott and Alexander Knott fought a duel in the streets of El Paso. Now the shot Schott shot shot not Knott but Schott. You see... aw, forget it.
To: Harley - Mississippi
"...there is no English word that rhymes with orange."That's what I thought, until a 7-year-old straightened me out. She asked, "What lives in the ocean and rhymes with 'orange'?" Told her I didn't know. She insisted it was easy and I should try harder, but I had to give up, so she gave me the answer -- "Sproinge, dummy!" Now I know.
To: Rowdee
Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a bannana.
To: democratsstealvotes
thank you. bump
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To: Rowdee
German's a good language for exploring Europe, after English of course. But with Greek, you're limited to one country, and there they speak English and German, while the cleaning staff does Russian.
Such a strange future we've arrived at.
To: Rowdee
No worse than spanish, where you can make a complete sentence like this: Como como como. - Which means "I eat as I eat."
To: Harley - Mississippi
"Quick ! Someone tell me an English word that rhymes with the word ORANGE." Would you settle for a french one? - Try DERANGE, which means lunatic (more or less...) :-)
To: Rowdee
1)There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. True, but then there is a horse in horseradish.
To: Harley - Mississippi
"Of course the answer is, there is no English word that rhymes with orange." Only if you disregard RANGE, and GRANGE, or even MAINGE.
(but never exchange) ;-)
To: Rowdee
OK now, what's the difference between up the street and down the street, and between something that's cool and something that's hot? Am I making myself understood or understandable?
To: editor-surveyor
Of course the answer is, there is no English word that rhymes with orange. Sporange rhymes whith Orange. People actually made up that word so that it would rhyme with orange.
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posted on
01/01/2002 10:30:03 AM PST
by
tbeatty
To: VRWC_Member428
Risque, but right on topic!!
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posted on
01/01/2002 10:36:26 AM PST
by
Rowdee
To: operation clinton cleanup
Oh boy.....have a got a stack of them thar wurds fer u!! :)
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posted on
01/01/2002 10:37:59 AM PST
by
Rowdee
To: Rowdee
BTTT
To: democratsstealvotes
..."Thus,the English language consists of a million words."...
Exactly.....and if there isn't one that will quite do, we'll create one.....just ask our President (or my 89 year old tomorrow Dad)! :)
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posted on
01/01/2002 10:42:36 AM PST
by
Rowdee
To: Bonaparte
Wait, wait......you're doing fine! Ya got the hang of it. :)
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posted on
01/01/2002 10:43:57 AM PST
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Rowdee
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