A simple study of the 'English Language' brings many question to mind with one in particular, "What in the word where they thinking?" For example who said it was ok to let words have multiple, completely different meanings? For example: 'Desert' by its self, just looking at it, could have more than one meaning and also be pronounced in more than one way.
I'll give you a sentence and I'm not even a judge! "The man choose to desert his dessert in the desert." How about the word 'dove?' When we saw the first albino pigeon, we decided to name it while watching it dive from some towering object down to the ground, and said, "did you see that, that bird just dove from that object.... hey lets call it a dove, but we should pronounce it differently so people don't get confused, how does 'duv' sound?"
Similar to that many other words, names and contraptions have been added to the English Language. I ask myself where were all the teachers and mothers when Webster set in stone our dictionary and made it so we have so many mixed pronunciations and meanings of the same words?
If you would like to see more of these types of English confusions go to the web page cited below and have some kicks and giggles. Leave your thoughts and other words that you find just as disconcerted!
I Shall leave you with one last thought from the web page: "If a vegetarian eats vegetables What the heck does a humanitarian eat!? Why do people recite at a play, Yet play at a recital?"
Web Page: Aha! English Language
English is pretty wild im glad to have learned it as a first language rather than a second.
ReplyDeleteThats for sure, i learned spanish as a second language, granted i had to live in another country to learn it, but in comparison to english, spanish is very straight forward!
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