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.
If teachers taught, why didn't preac hers 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?
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.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all.
That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
You'll sit down at a Windows machine and realize that Microsoft has forcing you to jump through hoops to get things done, and those hoops just shouldn't even exist.
Totally, they should change the name of their operating system. How about Hoops XP and Hoops Vista?
I'm inclined to agree with the babbling AC above. I've not only tried various substances rumoured to cause these physical afflictions, I've felt very compelled to keep taking them, and for quite some time. More than once, didn't learn the first time. Just swapped substance.
Ultimately though, I had to acknowledge that the real problem was some sort of basic attitude flaw, and that's all that needed to be changed. It wasn't easy. Sure I was depressed, I could blame that, or my upbringing. Whatever. Call it addiction if you like, or maybe escapism. The way I made it through was by making myself believe that I actually wanted something better. Somehow you inherently have to care enough to do something about it, and this is I believe, all in the fundamental outlook of the individual. Which was me in this case.
To summarize, I believe the word addiction masks the true nature of the problem of any kind of self abuse, by taking the responsibility away from the person, just offloading the 'blame' somewhere else. People take these things because they want to. Because they want to escape, or have that feeling of reward without the work. That ciggarette doesn't buy itself, then climb out of the packet and light itself and MAKE you smoke. Meth doesn't either, or alcohol, or even chocolate or ice cream. I honestly believe it's that simple.
Yeah, but I'll be turning 36 that day (if I make it). It was better when I turned 11 on the 11th of the 11th.
My mother tells be I was born at 11am as well. So whenever I hear that speech for dead soldiers, "On the 11th hour of the 11th day we gather to remember those gave their lives...blah...blah...blah", I think of her.
I think it's more of a side effect of the complex system of face recognition getting honed down while your young, and not being able to adapt to the subtle differences later in life.
then again all look same is pretty interesting. I had some of my chinese and japanese friends do the test, and it seems that they can't tell the difference either! they scored the same amount of correct recognitions as me, and other european type friends.
the kind of people that actually read the moderation guidelines. sure their only guidelines, but this is the kind of comment slashdot suggest gets marked redundant. i mean what does a comment like that actually add to the thread? not much, sure, you could say, it's a fairly innocuous comment, but it doesn't add anything intellectual, insightful or funny. in fact, it is fairly redundant.
"If you can master C++ or Java or Ruby on Rollerskates, why can't you master English"
My guess would be that unlike programming languages, you don't usually get an error when you have a minor grammar or spelling mistake.
Moreover, if you can correct someones bad usage of language then it means you actually understood the message they were trying to convey, therefore the medium served it's purpose and any attempt to correct mistakes is purely academic.
It's already 2006!!! where are all the robots we were promised by the year 2000? Whoopdedoo, beer pouring, Where's my Cherry 2000? She's already 6 years late.
And flying cars? Where are they? I want a flying car NOW dammit. Whats up with technology? These things have been planned and expected for over a century now.
yeah, not much details about the creation of the image (made from a compound eye camera) on this link: a picture but still, I wouldn't say it's great quality. I imagine quality will be the biggest problem with this tech.
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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.
If teachers taught, why didn't preac hers 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?
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.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the
creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all.
That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights
are out, they are invisible.
PS. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"?
Firefox 2.0.0.3 and OSX 10.4, did become unresponsive for about 30 seconds but came right, and then just displayed as a white image.
yeah, at least his post actually made me laugh.
(hey, at least I didn't say...
that was a thinly veiled attempt to actually say those three tired and repetitive jokes. Bad Nerd. Bad bad nerd, you ought to be punished.
good thing you did too, because the joke was already self referenced with his closely followed comment...
(with the double-entendre wholly intended)
I hear ya. I'm not really sure what the big problem with Paris is anyway. Must be plain old jealousy.
Seriously, if I were that hot and that frikken rich I'd be having the time of my life too. Who can blame her for living it up?
Sure, maybe you don't wanna trade places with her; but you wouldn't likely be complaining if you were dealt her lot.
After all, she really pushed technology forward helping with the adoption of VHS.
You'll sit down at a Windows machine and realize that Microsoft has forcing you to jump through hoops to get things done, and those hoops just shouldn't even exist.
Totally, they should change the name of their operating system. How about Hoops XP and Hoops Vista?
Just get it ballpark close. Gravity will do the rest.
similarly, dog's often pester others for treats when they're hungry...
I'm inclined to agree with the babbling AC above. I've not only tried various substances rumoured to cause these physical afflictions, I've felt very compelled to keep taking them, and for quite some time. More than once, didn't learn the first time. Just swapped substance.
Ultimately though, I had to acknowledge that the real problem was some sort of basic attitude flaw, and that's all that needed to be changed. It wasn't easy. Sure I was depressed, I could blame that, or my upbringing. Whatever. Call it addiction if you like, or maybe escapism. The way I made it through was by making myself believe that I actually wanted something better. Somehow you inherently have to care enough to do something about it, and this is I believe, all in the fundamental outlook of the individual. Which was me in this case.
To summarize, I believe the word addiction masks the true nature of the problem of any kind of self abuse, by taking the responsibility away from the person, just offloading the 'blame' somewhere else. People take these things because they want to. Because they want to escape, or have that feeling of reward without the work. That ciggarette doesn't buy itself, then climb out of the packet and light itself and MAKE you smoke. Meth doesn't either, or alcohol, or even chocolate or ice cream. I honestly believe it's that simple.
Firefox can't find the server at www.thehedonisticimperative.com
Go down on me and I'll owe you one.
Yeah, but I'll be turning 36 that day (if I make it). It was better when I turned 11 on the 11th of the 11th.
My mother tells be I was born at 11am as well. So whenever I hear that speech for dead soldiers, "On the 11th hour of the 11th day we gather to remember those gave their lives...blah...blah...blah", I think of her.
Maybe he's posting from Soviet Russia?
I think it's more of a side effect of the complex system of face recognition getting honed down while your young, and not being able to adapt to the subtle differences later in life.
then again all look same is pretty interesting. I had some of my chinese and japanese friends do the test, and it seems that they can't tell the difference either! they scored the same amount of correct recognitions as me, and other european type friends.
that's how I prefer to sleep in summer.
the kind of people that actually read the moderation guidelines. sure their only guidelines, but this is the kind of comment slashdot suggest gets marked redundant. i mean what does a comment like that actually add to the thread? not much, sure, you could say, it's a fairly innocuous comment, but it doesn't add anything intellectual, insightful or funny. in fact, it is fairly redundant.
oh, whoops, missed the cant part of the comment, double negative, your are absolutely correct. My mistake.
Withstand definition
1. To oppose with force or resolution.
2. To be successful in resisting.
To resist or endure successfully
My guess would be that unlike programming languages, you don't usually get an error when you have a minor grammar or spelling mistake.
Moreover, if you can correct someones bad usage of language then it means you actually understood the message they were trying to convey, therefore the medium served it's purpose and any attempt to correct mistakes is purely academic.
I hear ya, it's like "All your debasements are belong to us"
except in this instance it would be how you "hacked" your speakers into your mp3 player.
And flying cars? Where are they? I want a flying car NOW dammit. Whats up with technology? These things have been planned and expected for over a century now.
yeah, not much details about the creation of the image (made from a compound eye camera) on this link: a picture but still, I wouldn't say it's great quality. I imagine quality will be the biggest problem with this tech.