Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn

Found this..........
Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn:
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it
was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg
in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in
pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or
French fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't
sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we
explore its paradoxes, we find that
quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a
guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing,
grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of
tooth is teeth, why isn't the
plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2
meese? One index, 2 indices?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one
amend. If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of
all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a
vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be
committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what
language do people:
Recite at a play and play at a recital?
Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?
Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a
wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in
which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you
fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes
off by going on.

Giò
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Vides ut alta stet nive candidum
Soracte nec iam sustineant onus
silvae laborantes geluque
flumina constiterint acuto?
(Orazio - Odi I, 9)
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"Ancora non riesco a capire come gli sia venuta in mente"
(Richard Feynman, riferendosi alla Relatività)
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 vabbč :-))) basta un po' d'analisi logica/grammaticale :-))))
Sě, ma la pronuncia?
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Ciao, FB
-- 
"Melissa [P.] spazzola Thomas Fazi"
(notizia apparsa su it.cultura.libri)

Sì, ma la pronuncia?
dipende dagli esempi.
in certi casi le parole (più o meno) omografiche, sono anche omofone.
in altri lo sono di meno. in altri ancora sono proprio diverse.
per risolvere basta sapere l'inglese :-)))
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There was a row among the oarsmen in the second row about how to row.
Joe from Massachusetts

There was a row among the oarsmen in the second row about how to row.
Forse sarò io, ma io la pronuncia di row la imparai diversi anni fa,
in un film di Star Trek.
Erano nello Yosemite, Kirk, Spock e altri.
Attorno ad un fuoco si misero a cantare:
"Row, row, row your boat 
gently down the stream 
merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily 
life is but a dream."
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Spagna gracida in campagna" :-)
ah, questa non la sapevo :)
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 Spagna gracida in campagna" :-)
Sì, nel film. Invece nella recente riedizione del musical a teatro hanno
preferito una traduzione letterale... "la pioggia"... :-(
 
-- 
Enrico C
...still legal tender...

 informative
Definitely good reading! 
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 Definitely good reading!
ma nell'altro thread non eravamo rimasti d'accordo sul "definitely a good
read!" ? :)

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.
That
way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their
shoes.
I will have to remember this, it is a good one.

preferito una traduzione letterale... "la pioggia"... :-(
mi sembra come la storia de "L'importanza di essere Franco" al posto
de "L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto".
Tu quale traduzione preferisci?
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 Tu quale traduzione preferisci?
Penso che uno si abitua e si affeziona a una certa versione, poi è 
difficile giudicare oggettivamente... :)
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difficile giudicare oggettivamente... :)
sarai d'accordo con me, però. che le due (4) traduzioni seguono le
stesse logiche.
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La impariamo da bambini a scuola.
Joe from Massachusetts

La impariamo da bambini a scuola.
Pure io ero bambino, e andavo a scuola.
Solo, il film di Star Trek lo vidi a casa.
:-)
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 :-)
Ma era Star Trek V, saresti cresciuto meglio senza vederlo :-)
-- 
Laz - [
http://www.dimensionedelta.net
]
"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, 
you're gonna see some serious shit!" 

Giņ
.....................................................
Vides ut alta stet nive candidum
Soracte nec iam sustineant onus
silvae laborantes geluque
flumina constiterint acuto?
(Orazio - Odi I, 9)
.....................................................
"Ancora non riesco a capire come gli sia venuta in mente"
(Richard Feynman, riferendosi alla Relativitą)
.....................................................

 wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
mmmm...non ci sono neanche Armi nell'Armadio (non per forza).

 va beh..vediamo cosa riesco a fare...
Non male, ma tieni presente che nei primi 12 esempi, la pronuncia delle
due parole inglesi č diversa, mentre quella delle parole italiane č
uguale.
-- 
Mary