and it makes a whole different sentence every time

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

Nightmare for copy editors.

This is why it's so important to get kids reading books. I read each of these sentences fine, without confusion through context. Close reading is key to communication and the English language.

If English beats up other languages in dark alleys, Polish must be Batman or some f-ing ninja. arOAPm6_70...c7e2b1.jpg

Same with many, many abbreviations. In many, many other languags. Alas.

awwh

Like the word happiness. Ha-penis. Thank you Peggy Hill.

Drink milk and solve the whole problem!

I'm learning english as my third language and this just messed me up so bad

I C U 2

Is that Welsh? It looks Welsh...

Push the record button to record.

always wondering why even native speakers don't know the difference. Also: if you're unsure about "affect" or "effect" just use "impact" :D

Well, linguistically speaking: AE is an older form of English that had less influence from neighboring languages.

I know it works GREAT with "spring ahead and fall back" - in reference to Daylight savings time reminders as to which way to set the clocks (forward or backward)

Smith doesn't look like a word anymore

I think it is amazing to see how closely many languages are intertwined. Therefore, people talking about "supremacy" of languages will often have no clue. On the other hand, other language families are quite fascinating in comparison, particularly if you consider the "efficiency" of saying something. And then, having isolated non-related languages (like Basque) are truly fascinating.

Oh, my god! That's awesome!

Eggplants were called that because the variety first introduced to the Europeans looked like an egg (you can see them if you look it up, they're white), pineapple was called that because it looks like a pine cone and "apple" was a generic word for "fruit", hamburger is from the "Hamburg steak" which is a kind of ground beef dish. Here are theories about the "guinea pig": http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2009/12/how-did-the-guinea-pig-get-its-name.html

In Singapore, we say I before E except after “C”

We say brinjal instead of eggplant...

where can I order this?

Except that spelt is "hulled wheat".

now enter "ajar jarjar in a jar in an ajar jar" in google translator and click on "pronounce" 🤣😂🤣

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Ah oui, c' est comme ca pour les francais...

OMG I dreamt I did that last one once.

tittynope????

Gh, however, is never pronounced as F at the beginning of a word.

F**k you

You should read "polish" as "polish", but don't read "polish" as "Polish", or "Polish" as "polish"..

I think about this too all the time! I've decided that instead of "Why can't you" being "Why can not you," it means "Why can you not," despite the basic grammar rules being weird. I guess it's just implied?

Text can only convey so much...

Yeah, let's call them just "mon".

That also depends on accent. I'll isn't pronunced the same as aisle and isle where I'm from on the States.

it's weird cause in our language had-had means tinea cruris in medical terms. hahaha

Three quarters! FFS

"All the faith he had had had had no effect on the outcome of his life."

Rickrollé in French, which is the basic way in French to appropriate an English word

There's an entire article on the phenomenon that was (is) part of an internet history class. It's a short read, but fascinating. https://www.thisworldthesedays.com/academias-history-of-internet-teaching-article.html

Am I the only one who thought 13 had more to do with the usage of "to" vs "too" than pronouncing close?