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(Frage) reagiert/warte auf Reaktion  | | Datum: | 16:29 Mi 15.06.2005 | | Autor: | Oscar |
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Hi everybody !
J'ai la chance d'être un des maillons francophones d'une chaîne d'enseignants anglophones en Suisse.
Je vous donne ci-après copie d'un long courriel (email) qui illustre combien il est difficile d'apprendre l'anglais.
Au départ, apparemment si facile à apprendre, pourquoi cette langue est-elle ensuite si difficile à maîtriser ?
Oscar vous remercie déjà.
Thanks a lot, everybody...
Here we go :
Subject: The English Language
If you've learned to speak fluent English, you must be a genius! This little treatise on the lovely language we share is only for the brave. Peruse at your leisure, English lovers. 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 no 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 (Surprise!). 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? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend. 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.
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Hi, time for some fun.
In my opinion most of the sentences are a silly way
of pointing out the inconsistencies in English
pronunciation. And I usually don't repost age-old
mails or jokes, this list dates to 1996 or earlier.
But I recently found some which were new to me
so I take this opportunity of passing them on ...
I found them on www.businessballs.com/games.htm as
I was putting together a quiz for an evening at
the Berne Englsih -speaking club (all welcome,
Friday 10 June, www.englishclub.ch )
Have fun
Graham
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Think of a words that sound exactly the same and have opposite meanings. (They are spelt differently but phonetically - they sound - the same.) We know of four such words pairs, each which has two different spellings, same sound, and opposite meanings.
Raise (build up) and raze (destroy to the ground)
Wave (dismiss) and waive (allow).
Sent and Scent (as in 'dispatch to' and 'receive from' - not quite so clear-cut as the first two pairings, and not the same tense, but opposites nevertheless (I don't know this meaning of scent! - G)
Pair and Pare (to increase by doubling-up, and to reduce by cutting or trimming away
And extending the theme, what words in the English language occur in two forms, exactly the same spelling, with opposite meanings?
Clip (join two or more things together as with a paper-clip) and Clip (divide something into two or more pieces, as in clip an article from the paper or clip someone's hair)
Dust (remove a layer of powdery substance) and Dust (apply a layer of powdery substance, as in dusting crops or dusting for finger-prints).
Trim (add to or embellish, as in trim the Christmas tree) and Trim (cut away something, as in trim someone's hear or a hedge).
Cleave (split apart or break) and Cleave (stick or adhere). (See the explanation under cliches origins for more detail.)
Ravish (to violently abuse) and Ravish (to delight)
Fast (quick) and Fast (stuck tight)
Sanction (a permission) and Sanction (a preventative penalty)
Sanguine (cheerful) and Sanguine (bloodthirsty)
Bolt (secure in place) and Bolt (run away).
{They did not have a list where words which sound
the opposite actually mean the same:
flammable=inflammable
Like the German prefix "ver" which sometimes
strengthens the vern, sometimes turns it opposite. - G)
And perhaps more tenuously, the hypenated double-word constructions:
Blow up (inflate - create - a balloon) and Blow-up (destroy with explosives)
Wind-up (start something, like a clock or an argument) and Wind-up (finish something, like proceedings or a talk).
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J'espère que vous avez tout lu...
Merci d'être arrivé jusqu'ici ?
Qu'en pensez-vous ? Pourquoi l'anglais est-il si difficile à maîtriser ?
Tha
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Hey,
I think, every language is difficult, but English is much easier than german or french. You can talk a lot with a bit vocabulary, only the grammar is pretty difficult.
milky-way
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(Mitteilung) Reaktion unnötig  | | Datum: | 23:11 Mi 22.06.2005 | | Autor: | vivien |
Hi,
I think the first year in english are difficult. Now, after 7 years, my english is much more improved. I did an exchange to Canada and it was fantastic.
When you have the every day life, you learn much easier. I think, that english is not very difficult. It is much easier to learn than latin, german or french.
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