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Blatant lies.
Here are two I created several years ago (before AI reared its eight-fingered head) ...
When you think about the phonetics of these words, didn't they drop the wrong vowel?
Yeah, and what's up with homonyms? Did they run out of sounds?
For several years in the 1980s, I taught ESL as a Literacy vounteer. Whenever a student questioned an idiosyncracy of the language, I smiled, shrugged, and said, "It's English," by way of explanation. Not much else one could do.
Looking forward to a family birthday party today.
"Yeah, and what's up with homonyms? Did they run out of sounds?"
Their they're deer, twill awl bee grate.
Their they're deer, twill awl bee grate.
"Pray for the prey, rein in the rain," the bare bear said.
One of the few bits of Irish I remember from school was:
Ní hé lá na báistí lá na bpáistí, meaning a rainy day is not a day for the kids but pronounced:
Knee hay law na bawshtee law na bawshtee.
So it's not just English.
Ní hé lá na báistí lá na bpáistí, meaning a rainy day is not a day for the kids but pronounced:
Knee hay law na bawshtee law na bawshtee.
So it's not just English.
All students take French here. Beautiful language. I liked it so much, I took it as a first-year University elective.
A favorite lesson in ESL: the difference between bare arms (no sleeves), bear arms (roar), and bear arms (take up guns).
Spanish is the second language in my family. I can speak it well enough to be understood, but have a hard time understanding in return unless people speak slowly and enunciate carefully.
Spanish is the second language in my family. I can speak it well enough to be understood, but have a hard time understanding in return unless people speak slowly and enunciate carefully.
Whenever I go on vacation, it interrupts my swimming routine and I have not been since returning a week ago. But I registered for the morning swim tomorrow. Got to get back into the routine!
To swim is better than to sink.
Ever wonder why your brain just makes you wake up at midnight for no reason at all?
... which is why I don't go to bed until after midnight. =P
(Which also means I'm perpetually tired and irritable at work) =P
I know the feeling.
Sometimes I will read a phrase that grabs my attention. Recently, I read "the spectrum of existence."
The idea being that the entire spectrum is not accessible by our senses.
The idea being that the entire spectrum is not accessible by our senses.
At least not until one's life flashes before one's eyes.
Yeah, I guess we all have our own individual spectrum.
I think we just had our first spammer, unless I missed twenty.
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