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English good meh? -Colin GohThere 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, which arent sweet are meat.We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guienea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers dont groce and hammers dont ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isnt the plural of booth beeth? One goose, two geese. So one moose, two meese?Doesnt it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb through annals of history but not a singel annal?If teachers taught, why dont preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? If you wrote a letter, perhaphs you bote your tongue?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? Park on driveways and drive on parkways?How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?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 clock goes off by going on.English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of human race (which, of cos, isnt a race at all). Thats why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it.Regards, Stella (:
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