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Old 03-18-2010, 10:05 AM
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I saw these today in class! It is no wonder the English language is so hard to understand!

Farmers produce produce.

I did not object to the object.

The dove dove into the bush.

I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt.

The insurance for the invalid was invalid.

The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
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Old 03-18-2010, 10:32 AM
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That is just a wonderful example of our difficult language.
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Old 03-18-2010, 10:36 AM
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Oh so true!
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Old 03-18-2010, 11:10 AM
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lol - yeah, that's English.

I tutored a student who was from Ethopia. She felt bad because she had problems understanding English. I told her not to feel too bad. She was in the US, and we are the "mutt" of languages. If we like the word, we adopt it; we don't care where it came from...
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Old 03-18-2010, 11:15 AM
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It is probably only going to get worse too.
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Old 03-18-2010, 01:11 PM
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When my friend first moved here from Japan, it drove her crazy. Your examples were all proper English. Just imagine throwing in all the slang!!
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I take a class with a boy from Taiwan. He is taking English as A Second Language and is struggling because our language has no rhyme or reason and no hard and fast rules.
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As a teacher: Millions of rules and millions of exceptions to those rules!! Gotta love it.
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Doesn't it make you wonder how we ever learned it properly?
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it always boggles my mind anyone can learn our language.
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