English....it's easy......not
English....it's easy......not
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roca (Mechanical)
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If you thought the English language was easy please read on.....
1, The bandage was wound around the wound.
2, The farm was used to produce produce.
3, The dump was so full it had to refuse more refuse.
4, There is no time like the present, so he thought he would present
the present.
5, When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
6, He did not object to the object.
7, The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
8,The oarsmen had a row about how to row.
9, he was too close to the door to close it.
10, A stag does strange things when the does are present.
11, After a number of injections my jaw became number.
12, The artist saw a tear in his painting and shed a tear.
13,She had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
14, An army chef decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
There are no eggs in an eggplant, no apple or pine in pineapple.
Quicksand works slowly.
Boxing rings are square.
Guinea pigs are neither from Guinea or are pigs.
Writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers
don't ham.
If a vegetarian eats veg, what does an humanitarian eat?
A slim chance and a fat chance are similar.
So are quite a lot and quite a few.
But overlook and oversee are very different.
You fill in a form to fill it out.
An alarm goes off by going on.
when the stars are out, you see their light but when the lights are
out you see nothing.
1, The bandage was wound around the wound.
2, The farm was used to produce produce.
3, The dump was so full it had to refuse more refuse.
4, There is no time like the present, so he thought he would present
the present.
5, When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
6, He did not object to the object.
7, The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
8,The oarsmen had a row about how to row.
9, he was too close to the door to close it.
10, A stag does strange things when the does are present.
11, After a number of injections my jaw became number.
12, The artist saw a tear in his painting and shed a tear.
13,She had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
14, An army chef decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
There are no eggs in an eggplant, no apple or pine in pineapple.
Quicksand works slowly.
Boxing rings are square.
Guinea pigs are neither from Guinea or are pigs.
Writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers
don't ham.
If a vegetarian eats veg, what does an humanitarian eat?
A slim chance and a fat chance are similar.
So are quite a lot and quite a few.
But overlook and oversee are very different.
You fill in a form to fill it out.
An alarm goes off by going on.
when the stars are out, you see their light but when the lights are
out you see nothing.





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Though sounds like go
Tough sounds like stuff
Cough sounds like off
Through sounds like you
Bough sounds like cow
Man, what a confusing language...
Oh yeah, and one of my favorites:
Why do inflammable and flammable mean the same thing?
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Though sounds like go
Tough sounds like stuff
Cough sounds like off
Through sounds like you
Bough sounds like cow
So, how is pronounced the name of Gough St. in San Francisco? (or San Francischough
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I guess that's:
'gh' pronounced as 'f' ( as in 'enough')
'o' pronounced as 'i' ( as in 'women')
'ti' pronounced as 'sh' ( as in 'nation')
Good Luck
johnwm
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Thus a house cat is nothing like a cathouse.
Rick Kitson MBA P.Eng
Construction Project Management
From conception to completion
www.kitsonengineering.com
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My college buddy, after getting married and buying a cat, decided to build house for his cat. Thinking that he was building a cathouse for a cat, similar to a doghouse for a dog, he constantly referred to his little project as the cathouse.
My friend has a degree in Architectual Engineering with a double major in a Construction Management. When he states that he is building a cathouse, out of context, this is very perplexing to the informed listener. He never quite understood why he got so many snickers of laughter or sincere questions as to "WHERE ARE YOU BUILDING THIS?" until we told him what a "cathouse" was.
--Scott
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"Two countries separated by a common language" as someone once said.
corus
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Route as in a street or road, I pronouce (r-oo-t) as in Route 66.
The other (r-ow-t) as in we routed them B*** so we could talk our own way!!
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I pronounce "cache" like "cash", as in "moola".
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in the original post
"11, After a number of injections my jaw became number."
cannot be included. Gramatically correct version of this line would be "more numb" as "number" is not a word in this sense. However, if your jaw is already numb it is impossible to make it more numb so even this case would not work.
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My immediate thought was that the announcer was too inarticulate to be allowed to earn a living on radio – EVERYBODY knows it is pronounced “Trowton” Street. ("Trough" to rhyme with "bough".)
Then it occurred to me – just because I call it “Trowton” Street, how do I know how it should be pronounced? Presumably, the original Mr/ Ms Troughton is the only person who could give a definitive answer! (And maybe it's really pronounced “Trooton” Street as in “through”, or “Truffton” Street as in “rough”?)
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1. Virtually spotless.
a. Its either spotless or its not....
(i always forget how to use its or it's -> it's is the possesive right?)
2. Very Pretty.
a. Pretty has no level, either pretty or not....
3. pretty many
a. again many is not increasable....
nick
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Main Entry: 1pret·ty
Pronunciation: 'pri-tE, 'pur- also 'pru-
Function: adjective
Inflected Form(s): pret·ti·er; -est
Since there is prettier and prettiest, there's at least 3 levels.
That puts "very pretty" somewhere between prettier and prettiest, kind of a split-level.
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Nick
I love materials science!
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NanoMan responds, "Since at least three levels exist, then there're more than one. `There's` is singular..."
Gotcha!
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In Italy it is pronounced with the accent on the last syllable;
In Michigan, Milan is pronounced with the accent on the first syllable.
Go figger. You can never tell.
It depends on the dictionary used, also.
Buy a dictionary, keep it nearby and USE it. Webster's New World Dictionary of American English is recommended, and Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
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City or towns names are almost always mis-pronounced from the way you'd expect them to be, especially if they appear to have international roots. Here's a few examples from Missouri....
(all caps is emphasized syllable)
Vichy is 'VITCH-ee'
Versailles is 'vuhr-SALES'
Milan is 'MILE-ann'
Bois D'arc is 'BOW-dark'
Cairo is 'KAY-Row'
That's just a few off the top of my head....
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Pierre, N. (or S.?) Dakota, which is pronouced peer
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(i always forget how to use its or it's -> it's is the possesive right?)
It's is short for it is.
Its is the possessive.
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1. Don't abbrev.
2. Check to see if you any words out.
3. Be carefully to use adjectives and adverbs correct.
4. About sentence fragments.
5. When dangling, don't use participles.
6. Don't use no double negatives.
7. Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.
8. Just between you and I, case is important.
9. Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.
10. Don't use commas, that aren't necessary.
11. Its important to use apostrophe's right.
12. It's better not to unnecessarily split an infinitive.
13. Never leave a transitive verb just lay there without an object.
14. Only Proper Nouns should be capitalized. also a sentence should.
15. begin with a capital and end with a period
16. Use hyphens in compound-words, not just in any two-word phrase.
17. In letters compositions reports and things like that we use commas
18. to keep a string of items apart.
19. Watch out for irregular verbs which have creeped into our language.
20. Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
21. Avoid unnecessary redundancy.
22. A writer mustn't shift your point of view.
23. Don't write a run-on sentence you've got to punctuate it.
24. A preposition isn't a good thing to end a sentence with.
25. Avoid cliches like the plague.
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Either you're very imaginative or you've got great sources for any material. Either way, something handy for an engineer
tom
PS:(I think there's an word missing in point 2)
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How come you got capitals in yer handle i.e. NanoMan. Are you making an oxymoron statement there or what?
That is why I coined the word nonuninflammable. Would it have the same meaning as the other two you cited?
There is a town in Illinois named El Dorado and also one in Kansas both pronounced locally as El Doraydo.
There is a street in Atlanta named Ponce' de Leon. Locals pronounce it Ponts dee Leon to rhyme with turn the lights on.
In Centralia, IL, I pronounced one street as Cal'umet even though the locals pronouunced it Calumet'. Their pronunciation sounds harsh. At first it seemed strange that Central City, IL had Green Street Road until we lived in the area for years and it dawned on me that it goes from the city into the country. Perfectly logical... street in the city road in the country - no?
Jesus is THE life,
Leonard
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Scotchmans' emphasis as daaay-bree. And what about misled pronounced mice-llld?
IRstuff,
Are you more uniquer than I or is it vis versa. Sorry couldna help myself. Hope you are not lurking behind a bush somewhere ready to pounce.
The teacher said, "two negatives make a positive but two positives don't make a negative." A student in the back row piped up, "yeah right."
easy...not?
Jesus is THE life,
Leonard
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Only if you're a legend in your own mind
btw.. it's vice versa
and it's "more unique", although it might have been "uniquer", if that word exists
TTFN
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Who you callin' an ox? Or are you calling me a moron?
Why two caps in the handle? I dunno... I like the way it looks? The oxymoron reference is over my head. Can you elaborate?
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Instead of goofing off here, I should be researching nanoprepared Z stabilzed PRh wire and tapping your brain because this is my first experience at delving into the minimicro world of nanoism. Or should that be nanoisms? Or is that offensive to a small minded guy like you? Or maybe your handle is not descriptive of anything whatsoever to do with what I am jabbering about.
IRstuff, Nice shot vis=>vice
Sorry for the sloppy english. I think I got more uniquer from a dearly departed lady who was bedfast with MS. She preferred that term over bedridden. She was the first to tell me about the unique rabbit and would also say more bestest instead of the preferred more better.
Jesus is THE life,
Leonard
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Jesus is THE life,
Leonard
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Sounds like your friend was into children's books, since both the -est and -er suffixes are common usage there, even on words that normally do not take them. Apparently, writers think that kids understand the concepts better when using those constructs and, hopefully, they'll forget them or learn the correct usage by the time they go to school.
As for nanothings, the movies and TV have already created "nanites" (?) as the name of robotic nanothings, although "nanobot" seems more descriptive.
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allegory, alliteration, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, anastrophe, antiphrasis, antithesis, antonomasia, aposiopesis or ellipsis, apostrophe, assonance, asyndeton, catachresis, epistrophe, epithet, erotema, euphemism, hendyadis, hypallage, hyperbole, hysteron proteron, irony, litotes or meiosis, malapropism, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, pleonasm, polysemy, polysyndeton, prosopopoeia, simile, syllepsis, synecdoche, tautology, tmesis, zeugma...,
and some more that my old listing missed. BTW, if I committed a mistake should I amend or emend ?
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Good Luck
johnwm
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Saw the "s" and thought, oh, the British spelling, but not sure if the British spelling has two "p"s?
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Jesus is THE life,
Leonard
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Good Luck
johnwm
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No 'i' - it's not apoligize/apoligize, it's apologize/apologise.
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WRT Mr. Gates, you can set your MS Office dictionary to UK English and it will happily flag spellings like 'color', 'aluminum', and 'apologize' as incorrect.
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With more and more electronic components and computerisation this may well be a reality in the near future. God help us if BG designs an operating system for cars.
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That's the art of prescribing poison to counter poison!
What is the difference between God and engineer? God doesn't think He is an engineer.
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"The all new Jeep Cherokee with Celeron, MS Car XP Pro"..... AAAAAGHHH!
Don't go there Kiwikid. Please, I'm begging you....
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The prompt for this post was the following statement in another eng-tips forum: "And some cash in hand jobs." My first reading caused me to do a double take - it reads like the capital allocation plan of a low-end pimp. Then I realized what they meant: "And some cash-in-hand jobs." Very different meanings, huh?
Other examples (some from this forum) are: "check-out lane," "target-rich environment," "free-fire zone," or "well-known person."
Remember, whenever two or more words function together as an adjective before a noun, they're to be hyphenated.
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If car manufacturers had developed technology like Microsoft then:-
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3 Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue.
4 Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to re-install the engine.
5 Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive, but would run on only five percent of roads.
6 The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light.
7 The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.
8 You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.
Cheers all
DC
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