[Ricci]

The English Language​

Only in English......

English is the only language where you drive on parkways and park on driveways.

It's also the only language where you recite in a play and play in a recital.

Your fingers have fingertips but your toes don't have toetips and yet you can tiptoe but not tipfinger.

The word queue is just a Q followed by four silent letters.

Jail and prison and synonyms but jailer and prisoner are antonyms.

When you transport something by car it's called a shipment but when you transport something by sea it's called cargo.

No wonder English is one of the most difficult languages to learn!

 

[Sethia Soliman]

Only in English......

English is the only language where you drive on parkways and park on driveways.

It's also the only language where you recite in a play and play in a recital.

Your fingers have fingertips but your toes don't have toetips and yet you can tiptoe but not tipfinger.

The word queue is just a Q followed by four silent letters.

Jail and prison and synonyms but jailer and prisoner are antonyms.

When you transport something by car it's called a shipment but when you transport something by sea it's called cargo.

No wonder English is one of the most difficult languages to learn!

This is actually a great observation HAHAHA! I was formerly an English teacher and let me tell you, it was incredibly challenging to explain these little things about the English language that just never made sense...

 

[Goodbloke]

The English language has terrific words for the recently retired government politicians

 

[Xe]

English to become the official European language​

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi TU understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.