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.

That is just a wonderful example of our difficult language.

Oh so true!

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...

It is probably only going to get worse too.

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!!

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.

As a teacher: Millions of rules and millions of exceptions to those rules!! Gotta love it.

Doesn't it make you wonder how we ever learned it properly?

it always boggles my mind anyone can learn our language.