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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: L&J: The English Language
Ah, yes, 'tis a terrible thing,
this burden we profess from our
very lips. Yet, 'tis also true,
she spans the globe, on wings of
watts, embracing every topic
under the sun, to give us light,
warmth, love, and life.
She is English, a tough mistress,
to be sure. She commands many years
of hard labor, to master a simple
phrase. And yet, she has conquered
the hearts of nearly every field,
and stands to birth 10 times
the words we now endure.
This is English, my dear and loving
mistress. You elevate us with
your complex ways, and teach us
to stay the course. You are mine
forever, and I am yours as well.
/s/ Paul Mitchell
http://supremelaw.com
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>>>Subject: Fwd: English Language
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>>>Subj: English Language
>>>Date: 97-10-27 23:51:31 EST
>>>From: NRA Glock
>>>
>>>Someone sent this to me and I thought you might enjoy it!
>>>
>>>Mark
>>>
>>>Our So Called Language
>>>
>>>"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, that you comb through annals of history but
>>>not a single annal? 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
>>>preacher praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian
>>>eat? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue?
>>>
>>>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? Park on driveways and drive on parkways? How can a
>>>slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and 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. Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only
>>>when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful
>>>gown? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love? Have you ever run into
>>>someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all
>>>those people who ARE spring ch ickens or who would ACTUALLY hurt a fly? 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 the human race
>>>(which, of course, isn't a race at all). That is 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."
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