The English language is very confusing

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Postby isaacx » 2009.03.02 (01:29)

the only thing confusing is "(noun) (verb with -ing) (noun)"

example - tea flavored juice OR man flying airplane OR man eating chicken, that kinda stufd
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Postby aids » 2009.04.13 (18:34)

Aww, a whole poem dedicated to the cause.
If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be
speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the
world. Try them yourself.

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.

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Postby Brocerius » 2009.04.13 (19:04)

One of my favourites; "The rat the cat the dog chases hunts." (Though I'm not sure about the punctuation.)

I especially like it because you can extend it indefinitely. For example,
The cheese the rat the cat the dog the man the woman is married to owns chases hunts eats smells.

That sentence is paramount to saying 'The cheese smells.'



Try it yourself! Just list a number of things that can relate to each other - like 'the rock the kid the monkey the tree the lightening god' - and then list the way they relate - 'creates strikes houses bothers kicks sits' - and voilà! You have yourself a deliciously obscure sentence.

For those of you that don't get it, here is the above example, and a translation;
The rock the kid the monkey the tree the lightening god creates strikes houses bothers kicks sits.

The lightening that god creates strikes the tree that houses the monkey that bothers the kid who kicks the rock which sits.

The rock sits. The rest is a description of that particular rock.
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Postby epigone » 2009.04.16 (04:24)

Gforce wrote:I had to help my uncle Jack off a horse.
I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.
Easily improved by adding a bit more ambiguity into the wording.

I had to help my uncle Jack off a horse because he was to old to get off.
I had to help my uncle jack off a horse because he was to old to get off.

How many double/triple/quadruple meanings are hidden in that one!
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