Thursday, November 20, 2014

ENGLISH BUGS THE FUCK OUT OF ME!


Why is it that we spell knees 'KNEES' and don't spell the protuberance on your face 'KNOSE' ?

I'm just asking?

 the Ol'Buzzard
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11 comments:

  1. jadedjNovember 20, 2014 at 5:46 PM

    Nobody really KNOWS..

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  2. microdotNovember 21, 2014 at 3:54 AM

    Just count your blessings that you don't have learn a language that requires you to know the gender of either knees or nose. I thought there was some kind of logic involved in the gender of French nouns that I could intuitively get around, while hysteria, psychosis and torture a feminine, vagina is masculine, so is sandwich, murder and toothache. Even ambiguous concepts like hermaphrodite which is masculine and indecisiveness which is feminine. I've found that referring to things in the plural form allows you to ignore gender, but this can lead to problems......

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    1. Ol'BuzzardNovember 21, 2014 at 5:25 PM

      I took a Portuguese language class and stumbled over the same gender problem.
      O'B

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  3. NanNovember 21, 2014 at 8:44 AM

    You know the one that bugs me? The silent p in words like psychic and psoriasis. It's like what the fuck? Why is that p even there?

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  4. KulkuriNovember 21, 2014 at 10:03 AM

    What gets me is how words are pronounced differently depending on the ending of the word, like Academic and Academy??

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    1. Ol'BuzzardNovember 21, 2014 at 5:28 PM

      Who came up with this language? No wonder it is so difficult for non-English speakers to learn.
      O'B

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    2. KulkuriNovember 24, 2014 at 10:43 AM

      I'm one of them, English is my second language.

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  5. yellowdoggrannyNovember 21, 2014 at 5:18 PM

    when my kids were living at home...teenagers...we always prounced the k...as in kanife...kaneese...

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  6. The Blog FodderNovember 22, 2014 at 1:06 PM

    English is a real hodge-podge, for sure. And once you get into verb tenses, try explaining them to a person whose language only has three.

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