and it makes a whole different sentence every time

You can also emphasize every word in the sentence 'I din't say she stole my purse.' and each words you emphasize will change the meaning of the sentence.

If you've ever seen the series, "The Adventure of English," you know that it is not a single discrete language, but a ragbag collection of Saxon, German, Danish, Celtic, Gaelic, Latin and loan words from other languages as well. As for the grammar --!

Yeah, it's all about inflection....and stresses

Well in Polish it's the same.

Its never completely sad...only I'm single so everything is sad

Yes, it's a bit of fun when teaching people how to speak/write good grammar, if you sound smart, you are taken more seriously.

BTW: "in", not "on".

It's anywhere in the sentence, not on. Non-English speaker writing this!

And -- what do all those other countries call a banana?

I think it is the same in a lot of languages, it's not English specific...

But then the way you SAY it... SHE only told him that she loved him, She ONLY told him that she loved him, She only TOLD him that she loved him, etc. Sadly, it only gets worse.

Work quite the same in Portuguese

Only she told him that she loved him.

ENGLISH IS HYPO.CRY.XI.XI (SISSY) LANGUAGE WAHAHAHAHAHAA BOW DOWN AND BOW TIE... TOUCH AND POUCH... FLOUR, FLOOR, & FLOWER

The real reason we speak English? The British Army: http://wp.me/p7k0Sd-6p

I don't see that versatility as a bad thing.

She only told him that she loved him

not only english I'm affraid

This is a great article, literally cracked me up in places! I couldn't see the point to point to a conclusion, but out of .2 I rate this .2, and I think that is a valid point too!😂

I was warned in elementary school over and over again that the English system didn't make any sense yet I was to learn it!

Before the period.

It would make the same effect in Russian, so don't feel special.

Should add to title "& why it's so difficult to learn other languages"

she told him that ONLY she loved him

Oh yeah!

You can do it in Russian either

True

well this not the weirdness of the language. on the contrary, this is beautiful.

😱

Beautiful.

This is actually pretty cool.

They should have said “I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit. Upon the slitted sheet I sit"

Never thought about it. Awesomely old straight vivid logic.

Ai nou rait?

At least it will make "boom" if you are not careful.

In spanish we don't say ananas, we say piña

Well, isn't this the case with many words? Like terrific, or also awful. an aweful beach, to my understanding is one that you do not want to visit, while you definitely want to hand out on an awefully great beach. An if you hear of a terrific beach, you better ask twice. Any native speakers here to explain? Even though I am afraid this might even be different in AE and BE.

kinda happen with all languages?

We happy that they did not use emoticon precursors.

Sometimes we spell it "baloney" - And baloney and money don't rhyme either (sigh)

Queue is a queue where Q is the first and the others are waiting in queue for their chance to appear.

Just as the word "eleven". Someone please tell Americans to choose one sound? Brasilians have to many words but at least we know how to pronnounce them. .-.

I read that with a pirate accent - Did you? lol

Also: read (rid) → present tense; read (red) → past tense.

AAAH NO

Thou shalt s**t you not

Oh, if you still are interested in that, just find a German class nearby. The good thing is, the more weird languages you learn, you more you appreciate if you come across languages that lack the irregularities where you expected them from experience.

ok, I' ll take this one to english class next week