1. The bandage was wound around the wound.
2. The farm was used to produce produce.
3. The dump was so full 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 was 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 on how to row.
13. They were too close to the door to close it.
14. The buck does funny things when 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?
guys I love you all.
Only the fact that you have this interest about languages and the rest, is the importand thing. Languages are alive when we spend time to study them and give them the means to continue, as rich as we found them,if not more.
LOL!!!! The comments, in response to the original post, are hilarious! Haha! A bunch of Idiots correcting Idiots on their ridiculous attempt at presenting, what their idea’s to be, “proper” English Grammar. LOL
on the other hand, I find your overusage of proper english grammar in this situation to be quite amusing and ridiculous…
rename: 21 reasons why my English sucks
English has so many adverbial phrases that many people misuse.
English has so many irregular verbs.
English has crazy ways of spelling words.
English has stresses that could totally change the meaning of a sentence.
English poems are hard to read even for fluent speakers.
Native English speakers have so much difficulties expressing their thoughts in English. I’m an English speaker myself. I think it’s time to be honest and respect languages other than English.
lul means dick in Dutch
Jesus, all you Europeans need to stop picking on each other. No wonder your section of the Earth is all FUBAR. My apologies to the trollers, who are here to reap the benefits of picking on stupid people by Nazi’ing their grammar and making fun of their countries which you could frankly give a sh*t less about. You don’t count as Europeans picking on each other.
Do you know whether or not the weather outside is frightful?
That was a very good read!
The comments that is.
StumbleUpon wins again.
The person who posted this sucks. No one uses the words he used in those types of sentences.
betty bought a bit of butter but the bit of butter betty bought was bitter. – say really fast
Irish wristwatch – Extremely hard to say
This is just absurd!!! Even the Arabic Language, the best Language in the world due to the Quran being in Arabic uses one word to mean more than one thing. In fact, this is seen as something praiseworthy in the Arabic language and is studied.
English Language. TFM
These are actually all reasons why English is awesome; you’re just too dumb to appreciate subtleties.
I think these are “21 Reasons Why English ROCKS”! Hahaha!
Wow those comments are just hilarious !
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All this post is just a tongue in cheek and you all taking it so seriously.
I’ve been crazy enough to read through all the comments and I’m still laughing
It’s not about that English language sucks only that sometimes it can be very confusing for people who learn it.
Every language have words with double or more meanings. In every language you can find word play. Every language can be difficult to learn.
I think the most difficult part in learning process is grammar. Every language have own grammar rules and it’s very difficult or often impossible to translate every word exactly ( just try to translate sentences in Google Translator, that’s just total mess and it’s losing all meaning of the original sentence).
That doesn’t mean that English or any other language sucks, it’s just more or less difficult to learn.
What really sucks is people who try to correct others while their own grammar skills have ‘big holes’.
Actually it’s quite scary that people can’t speak properly in their own language.
English is not my first language so please don’t bother making comments about my grammar
These “21 Reasons why English Sucks” are the same 21 reasons why I adore the language. It’s confusing and beautiful, and fun to make fun of.
Hey lets all talk with perfect grammar now because its so important on the internet.
I believe that He-man would hysterically laugh at you with finger pointed at your faces… Its only because He can.
dicks
+grammar
Arguing about this since the first post Nov. 22 2010. Keep up the hate…all of you. (those three little circles up there–that’s called an ellipsis)
wtf is wrong with all you people criticizing each other for criticizing each other.
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
A totally legitimate sentence.
You example of “number” and “number” is incorrect. It wouldn’t be “number”, it would be “more numb”.
“numb
? ?[nuhm] Show IPA adjective -er, -est, verb
adjective ”
Dictionary disagrees with you. You fail.
I find it difficult to masturbate to these comments.
What other lanuage can you have such fun. Evey time to use it you are making a puzzle. If you want to make yourself clear you must use more English. Less is not best with English. You got to love it. Blueberries are red when they are green. You could choose ripe. But, why, make it a game.
I like when Lisa Simpson was in the rigged spelling bee.
Evaluator: “Your word is whether(weather).”
Simpson: “Could you use it in a sentence please?”
Evaluator: “I do not know whether or not the weather will be nice today.”
Lol, I laugh in the face of English. I was actually taken by a few of these sentences. Very knowledgeable=) <3 it!
My face when this is titled “21 reasons why English sucks” and yet it’s just a collection of statements showing why English is the best language on Earth.
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all languages on earth suck.
You and your life just fail in so many ways.
So far, I have at one time or another studied Chinese, Latin, French and Arabic. According to the logic on this page, they all “suck” because they contain homonyms. But I respectfully disagree: To me, this imparts to them all a richness and a variety that would otherwise be lacking. To this versatility, in English, we owe some of the best of our literature; if Shakespeare hadn’t had homonyms to work with, he’d have had to coin some. And poets would be lost if they hadn’t such a variety of choices to satisfy the demands of meter, cadence and rhyme.
In any case, languages are the products not of logic but of history. It is therefore vain to expect them to accord with some model of mathematical precision under which there is one word for each thing or idea, and no two words sound alike.
Besides, even if they did, the existence of other languages creates an entirely different source of sound-alikes. And these represent a joy to multilingual punsters, no matter how they may vex those whom an Arabic-English punster might describe as “blood beans.”
omg does it really matter? its supposed to be… wait for it… F.U.N.N.Y. it wasnt posted to create a huge argument
Buffalo, Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
John, while George had had had, had had had had, had had had had a better effect on the teacher.
Yeah this is why our language is retarded.
Hahahaha love # 7. My last three SU stops were awesome (this, http://imgflip.com, and uberhumor) GJ stumbleupon…
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“21 Reasons Why English Must Really Suck To Learn If You’re Not A Native Speaker”.
Luckily for me, I am.
What about “read” and “read”?
Another way to look at this is ’21 reasons why English rocks!’ Not many languages can do what English does and it never fears to introduce new words, or foreign words.