Understand English ?

[kickstart 1]

No wonder its confusing !

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. 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 was 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 on how to row.

13. They were too close to the door to close it.

14. The buck does funny things when 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?

[Andy3536]

Very clever
I expect most english people would have trouble reading that.

[MadduckUK]

actually i didnt have any trouble reading them. the weird bit was after reading the sentence i checked back over it to make sure the words were the same spelling... beacuse they couldnt possibly be.. could they?..(possibly drink related)

kind of automagically alter the pronunciation in my head

[0iD]

gramatical context is a wonderfil thing

[EvilWeevil]

Yep, emphasis in all the right places there for me.

[Gerrard]

Originally Posted by MadduckUK

actually i didnt have any trouble reading them. the weird bit was after reading the sentence i checked back over it to make sure the words were the same spelling... beacuse they couldnt possibly be.. could they?..(possibly drink related)

kind of automagically alter the pronunciation in my head

Did exactly the same thing here. Read it and then had to go back over it to see where the confusion could be.

[Hans Voralberg]

Have no problem reading that lot

[iranu]

No confusion for me, however, when I see examples like this I do feel for people learning the language and those that have learnt it and come across things like that.

6. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

before he deserted!

[Gunwitch]

English has to be the most screwed up language in the world to learn.

How we can expect anyone to learn it is beyond me.

[Zak33]

Ronny Barker was one of this country's best comedians at fully using our language to it's fullest extent.
His word craft was amazing. He'd have loved to see that list I think

[RavenNight]

Originally Posted by Gunwitch

English has to be the most screwed up language in the world to learn.

How we can expect anyone to learn it is beyond me.

The massive benefit of the English language is the lack of gender. You don't need to learn masculine, feminine, neuter etc.

[shelley bda]

Originally Posted by Zak33

Ronny Barker was one of this country's best comedians at fully using our language to it's fullest extent.
His word craft was amazing. He'd have loved to see that list I think

I loved his fourcandles, 'andles for forks sketch

[Mad-Max]

Originally Posted by Andy3536

Very clever
I expect most english people would have trouble reading that.

No trouble reading it here


Very nice Kickstart where did you get it from

Oh and for the people having trouble reading it then maybe you need to learn english

[MadduckUK]

Originally Posted by RavenNight

The massive benefit of the English language is the lack of gender. You don't need to learn masculine, feminine, neuter etc.

that was always annoying while learning German (badly). women's underware us masculin dontcha know?

[Saracen]

The English language can be very slippery. For instance, it is possible to use the same word five times in succession, without any other words in-between, and be grammatically correct and for the sentence to make sense. In fact, you can push that to seven recurrences of the SAME word, and still be grammatically correct. This is not a trick question. I mean it exactly how it sounds.

Working out which word I'm referring to is an exercise for the student ..... though I suspect some of you lot will have come across this quirky little factlet before.

[MadduckUK]

thats interesting! tell us!