SOCIAL: Poems About the Absurdity of the English Language

[E. Grace Gellerman]

Au contraire! I love our language's idiosyncrasies!

I celebrate the ridiculous rules preserved from Latin, even though I 
break them regularly. I love the primal, survivalist sound of words 
originating in Old English, especially when set against the backdrop 
of so many words we inherited from the much more musical Latin. I 
relish the odd case sensitive words, the irregular verbs, and the 
sheer volume of words that fill our dictionary.   The spelling rules 
just serve to keep my eye on an ever unpredictable ball.

But I am eternally grateful that English is my native language and 
that I have never had to endure the assault on my intuition that 
learning it might present!

At 4:13 PM -0700 4/5/06, Amandeep Jawa wrote:
>When the English tongue we speak.
>Why is break not rhymed with freak?
>Will you tell me why it's true
>We say sew but likewise few?
>And the maker of the verse,
>Cannot rhyme his horse with worse?
>Beard is not the same as heard
>Cord is different from word.
>Cow is cow but low is low
>Shoe is never rhymed with foe.
>Think of hose, dose,and lose
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>http://www.spellingsociety.org/news/media/poems.php
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>
>Actually - clicking around this site suggests that they're onto 
>something - FIX THE LANGUAGE!
>
>'deep
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>.ps YAY! Sun!
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