The English Language Doesn't Work Properly and is INFERIOR to certain other languages [EXAMPLES ITT]
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Anonymous2018-12-23 10:55
If you say "I'm afraid" does that mean, to the listener, that you are a Fraid (whatever that is) or that you are scared. If you say "I'm scared" does that mean that you are afraid or that you have healed-over wounds on your body. I could spend all day listing examples such as those two, but why don't you guys try listing some ITT to help produce some content and make less work for me ;)
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Anonymous2018-12-23 18:34
Most English words likely have a back-story of how they came to be. But why doesn’t an eggplant have any egg in it? Or, why is there no apple in a pineapple? Hamburgers don’t contain any ham; sweetbreads certainly aren’t made from bread; and they aren’t sweet, either.
French fries aren’t French. English muffins didn’t originate in England. We park in our driveway and drive on a parkway. When we send a package by car it’s called a shipment, but if that same package were on a ship it would be cargo. And why do our noses run, but our feet smell? Crazy indeed!
She had a wound on her arm, so she wound the bandage around three times.
The wind was blowing too hard for the man to wind his watch.
Joe wanted to present Sara with her present, but decided it wasn’t a good idea at the present time.
The bear raided the campground and kept eating until the food storage bin was bare.