You know what? Maybe this economic disaster isn't so bad after all....
Graham N
On 23 Jan 2009, at 14:08, Whittaker, Dewey (EHCOE) wrote:
> Dancing around this subject: are the two of you to wear your tutu,
> too?
> Dewey
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> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Werner engelmaier
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 6:59 AM
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> Subject: Re: [TN] English
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> Well, Inge,
> not only is pronunciation challenging, but there is at least one
> sentence that spoken makes perfectly good sense, but you cannot really
> write it:
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> There are three twos [tos, toos] in the English language.
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> Werner
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> From: Hernefjord Ingemar <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 8:50 am
> Subject: Re: [TN] English
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> yeah...agree...not easy to pronounce english words..
> no wonder some people don't understand a ounce
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> e.g 'ghoti'
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> anyone who can read what it is?
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> It's 'fish'
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> f as in laugh
> i as in women
> sh as in station
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> Inge
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> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Randall L Bock
> Sent: fredag 23 januari 2009 14:25
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> Subject: [TN] FW: English
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> Funny for the day....
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> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 8:17 AM
> To: Agacinski, Gerry; Barardi, Michelle; Bock, Cal and Kay; Randall L
> Bock;
> Brenda; Buckley, Joyce ; Burroughs, Larry; Butler, Beverly; Collins,
> Steve;
> Diane; Edwards, Beverly; Gileczek, Richard; Hafner, Denise; Janet;
> Krakowiak,
> Janet; Lane, Linda and Brad; Mann, Marjorie; Monica; Patton, Cherie;
> Wheat,
> Mike; Wheat, Pamela; Wilke, Mary Jo
> Subject: English
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> Subject: English - interesting
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> THIS IS GREAT!!!
> Read all the way to the end.............. This took a lot of work to
> put
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> together!!!
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> You think English is easy???
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> Read to the end . . . a new twist
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>
> 1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
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> 2) The farm was used to produce produce .
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> 3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
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> 4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
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> 5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
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> 6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
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> 7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to
> present
> the present .
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> 8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
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> 9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
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> 10) I did not object to the object.
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> 11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
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> 12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row
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> 13) They were too close to the door to close it.
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> 14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
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> 15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
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> 16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
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> 17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
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> 18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
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> 19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
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> 20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
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>
> Let's face it - English is a crazy language. 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 .
> Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are
> meat.
> We take
> English for granted.
> But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work
> 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? One index, 2
> indices?
> 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?
>
> If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats
> vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
> Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an
> asylum for
> the verbally insane. 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.
>
> Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick' ?
>
>
> You lovers of the English language
> might enjoy this .
>
> There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any
> other
>
> two-letter word, and that is 'UP.'
>
> It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of
> the
> list,
> but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ? At a meeting,
> why
> does a
> topic come UP ? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for
> election and
> why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report
>
> We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP
> the
> silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP
> the house
> and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has
> real
> special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP
> an
> appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be
> dressed UP
> is special.
>
> And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is
> stopped UP. We
> open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.
>
> We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP ! To be knowledgeable about the
> proper
> uses of UP , look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized
> dictionary, it
> takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty
> definitions.
> If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways
> UP is
> used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP,
> you
> may wind
> UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is
> clouding UP .
> When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP.
>
> When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.
>
> When it doesn't r ain for awhile, things dry UP.
>
> One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP,
> so
> it is
> time to shut UP!
>
> Oh one more thing:
>
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> What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you
> do at
> night?
> U----P
>
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