Why English is Hard to Learn

by Chris Abraham on 20/05/2005

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“Why can’t everyone just learn English?” Because its hard.


1. We must polish the Polish furniture.
2. He could lead if he would get the lead out.
3. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
4. Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
5. A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
6. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
7. I did not object to the object.
8. The bandage was wound around the wound.
9. The farm was used to produce produce.
10. The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
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?

From The Teaching High School.

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Al May 23, 2005 at 14:02

I can hardly bear the thought of the bare bear.

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Jerry Kindall May 23, 2005 at 18:20

There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

Wow… I didn’t get this one, looked it up, and discovered I’d been pronouncing “row” (as in quarrel) wrong most of my life. Having never heard it spoken, I really had no idea.

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Alex May 24, 2005 at 08:31

woah that was retarded!

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ReverendGadgetBoy May 24, 2005 at 09:16

mlarg

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Shamim May 24, 2005 at 11:02

As I spring on a spring to a spring in spring…

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ELI May 24, 2005 at 12:26

RETARDED!

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Rick May 24, 2005 at 12:41

One hen

Two ducks

Three squawking geese

Four limerick oysters

Five corpulent porpoises

Six pair of Don Alverzo’s tweezers

Seven thousand Macedonians in full battle array

Eight brass monkeys from the ancient sacred crypts of Egypt

Nine apathetic, sympathetic, diabetic, old men on roller skates with a marked propensity towards procrastination and sloth

Ten lyrical, spherical diabolical denizens of the deep who hall stall around the corner of the quo of the quay of the quivery, all at the same time.

Eleven very beautiful young vixens that vanish into vapors at dawn

twelve terrible turks tapping on their table tops til their to-tos pop through

thirteen messy mexican meatloaf makers, their the best messy mexican meatloaf makers that have ever made messy mexican meatlof

fourteen skunk sat on the stump, the stump thunk the skunk stunk and the skunk thunk the stump stunk.

ta da

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Ylurt May 24, 2005 at 16:37

OMG!!!! This is so easy to under stand what there talking about and you other people can’t! That sad and im dexlate.

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Ed May 24, 2005 at 17:33

Thirteen messy Mexican etc should read ‘they’re’ not their.

‘Their’ is a posessive, ie a group of people that have something.

‘They’re’ is a shortening of ‘they are’.

Ta Da

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Chris Abraham May 24, 2005 at 17:37

Wow, English IS hard to learn.

I hate it when people confuse its and it’s

Also, cachet and cache

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Ari May 24, 2005 at 18:01

John, while Jim had had “had,” had had “had had.” “Had had” had had a better effect on the teacher.

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Mobrule May 24, 2005 at 19:06

Mr Peppers told me to pee on this….

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mofo May 24, 2005 at 20:36

I am a foreigner and have no difficulty understanding any of the sentences. In fact, you would encounter similar ‘problems’ which you just know when you get the feel of the language.

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me May 25, 2005 at 13:31

this page sucks sooooooooooo bad!!!

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Joe May 25, 2005 at 18:39

Fuck, the fuckingest fucker fucked the fucking fuck out of the fuck.

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skipjack May 25, 2005 at 19:29

Polls show that Poles who stroke their poles might have a stroke.

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Lacas May 25, 2005 at 20:57

chickin go cluck cluck, cow go moo moo, duck’s go quack quack……….do you know the rest, i hate words so much now!!!!!!

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Ash May 27, 2005 at 15:06

your all fucking retarded

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Chris Abraham May 27, 2005 at 16:56

That would be “you’re all fucking retarded,” my good man.

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Peter Cross May 28, 2005 at 06:17

In GB we call Trucks – LORRIES -, So if English is hard to learn it could be said it is hard to speak. To try this out repeat,
RED LORRIES-YELLOW LORRIES-RED LORRIES-YELLOW LORRIES etc, etc.

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Carla Amor May 30, 2005 at 11:10

HAHA!

Creepy people.

Loony People.

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ME May 30, 2005 at 13:14

I believe that numb is not conjugated correctly in the case of the “After a number of injections my jaw got number.” sentence. The correct way to conjugate numb is numb, more numb and most numb. Therefore the sentence would actually be “Afer a number of injections my jaw became more numb.

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timmey June 1, 2005 at 12:27

the same bullshit in german:
Das das das “das” ist, das das “das” ist, das ist ja wohl klar.

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i can't speak enrish June 14, 2005 at 21:55

i cunt speak any engrish because enrigsh is very diffficurt to learn and because i can’t and so i don’t like to speak, because it is hard and difficurt. So i don’t like to speak engrish. i want to learn how to write and speak properly because i am not good at engrish and i dont like to speak engrish.

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i can't speak enrish June 14, 2005 at 21:56

i cunt speak any engrish because enrigsh is very diffficurt to learn and because i can’t and so i don’t like to speak, because it is hard and difficurt. So i don’t like to speak engrish. i want to learn how to write and speak properly because i am not good at engrish and i dont like to speak engrish.

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joe bloggs August 4, 2005 at 06:17

doll dagga buzz buzz ziggety zag godmod grotesque ziggety zag burlesque. :D

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Pat March 31, 2006 at 13:56

***Could anybody answer this?***
HOW MANY WOOD WOULD A WOODCHUCK CHUCK IF A WOODCHUCK COULD CHUCK A WOOD?

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