Use of English

[vienna1964]

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.

 

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 led the way in refining lead.

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 base 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 along the row of oarsmen

about how to row the boats.

13. Where they were closeted, the weather was

close and they were too close to close the

closet door.

14. The buck does funny things when the does are

present.

15. So, a seamstress and another sewer fell down

into an open sewer.

16. So, to help with planting, the farmer taught

his sow to sow as the wind soughed between

the trees.

17. The wind was too strong to wind in the sail

18. After a number of injections my jaw got

number.

19. When I reached the third tier of the palace,

I shed a tear upon noticing that there was a

tear in the beautiful painting.

20. I had to subject the subject to a series of

tests.

21. How can I intimate this to my most intimate

friend?

­22. "Miss, did you miss the mist ?", "Why, yes I

must have missed the mist !"

23. We must have mussed the musty muskrat !

24. The message would lead me to where the dogs'

leads were manufactured in Leeds.

[MbrunoB]

Funny-Peculiar or Ha Ha?