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At What Point Did The English Language Get You Logically Confused Or Irritated? by V1C70R(m): 5:05pm On Dec 18, 2019
The language, English, came to us through the colonial process, and since then, despite having numerous languages, we adopted the English language as the official language for daily communication.
As many have tried reasoning why the sentence, give her her book is correct, then, give him him book is not, I've also had mine, and it's why my nose should be running, and my feet smelling, they contradict logically abi? Lol!
Oya share yours below!
Re: At What Point Did The English Language Get You Logically Confused Or Irritated? by dawnomike(m): 5:08pm On Dec 18, 2019
The headache of learning adverbial clause/phrase coulpled with trying to talk loke a tortoise all in the name of phonetics in oral english. grin

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Re: At What Point Did The English Language Get You Logically Confused Or Irritated? by subtlemee(f): 5:14pm On Dec 18, 2019
Still wondering why they bothered with p in psychology/psychiatry, p in receipt and b in debt
Re: At What Point Did The English Language Get You Logically Confused Or Irritated? by maynattion(f): 5:19pm On Dec 18, 2019
When I learnt I had to pronounce Bouquet as Buke. gringrin
Re: At What Point Did The English Language Get You Logically Confused Or Irritated? by Oluwasaeon(m): 5:32pm On Dec 18, 2019
maynattion:
When I learnt I had to pronounce Bouquet as Buke. gringrin
More like boo-kay
Re: At What Point Did The English Language Get You Logically Confused Or Irritated? by drips8(m): 5:45pm On Dec 18, 2019
I suck at punctuations.
Re: At What Point Did The English Language Get You Logically Confused Or Irritated? by V1C70R(m): 5:58pm On Dec 18, 2019
dawnomike
subtlemee
maynattion
oluwasaeon

The language na wa o, but drips8, we fi run am, bring money mek we start.

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Re: At What Point Did The English Language Get You Logically Confused Or Irritated? by maynattion(f): 6:09pm On Dec 18, 2019
Oluwasaeon:

More like boo-kay

Exactly.
Re: At What Point Did The English Language Get You Logically Confused Or Irritated? by MrBrownJay1(m): 9:07pm On Dec 18, 2019
i once read the following madness.....

a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor a pig
there is no egg in eggplant
there is no ham in hamburger
there is no apples nor pine in pineapple
English muffins aren't English
French fries nor French kiss are French
quicksand is slow

boxing rings are square
If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn't the plural of booth be beeth?
One goose, two geese. So normally one moose would be two meese?
One mouse, two mice, means one house, two hice?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but you can't make just a single amend?
If teachers have taught, why haven't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, then what does a humanitarian eat?
people recite at a play and play at a recital
Must we ship by transport and transport by ship?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
your house can burn up while it's burning down
forms are filled out by being filled in
an alarm that's gone off is still going on.

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Re: At What Point Did The English Language Get You Logically Confused Or Irritated? by edoairways: 7:29am On Dec 19, 2019
English is one of the difficult languages in the world however it is dynamic
Re: At What Point Did The English Language Get You Logically Confused Or Irritated? by HRHQueenPhil(f): 4:53pm On Dec 19, 2019
kindly call me on 0816-982-7645..pls treat as urgent ..i want 2 ask what u are seeing cos my profile pic is blank undecided
edoairways:
English is one of the difficult languages in the world however it is dynamic
Re: At What Point Did The English Language Get You Logically Confused Or Irritated? by edoairways: 5:21pm On Dec 19, 2019
HRHQueenPhil:
kindly call me on 0816-982-7645..pls treat as urgent ..i want 2 ask what u are seeing cos my profile pic is blank undecided
Your pic isn't blant either. I can still see two ladies in the office,one on the computer while the other taking selfie.
Re: At What Point Did The English Language Get You Logically Confused Or Irritated? by HRHQueenPhil(f): 5:22pm On Dec 19, 2019
THATS why i said call me on the phone na not replying me here
edoairways:

Your pic isn't blant either. I can still see two ladies in the office,one on the computer while the other taking selfie.
Re: At What Point Did The English Language Get You Logically Confused Or Irritated? by V1C70R(m): 9:17am On Dec 21, 2019
I'm still puzzled on how the word colonel got away with that spelling, for so long now, smh!
Re: At What Point Did The English Language Get You Logically Confused Or Irritated? by MykellOni(m): 10:14pm On Jun 20, 2023
Past tense of learn is spelled #learned, pronounced #learnt. I smile when I see people make that mistake... its the most difficult to correct... F*ck that language
Re: At What Point Did The English Language Get You Logically Confused Or Irritated? by Benbelor(m): 9:21am On Jun 23, 2023
Past, Present and future tense of read remain 'read', but it is not same for 'lead'

It is hard to know the best case to use the punctuations ;. It is the only punctuation I have an issue with.

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