Isn't the english language crazy!!!!!

[EFE Speakers]

For example:

Know - no
Knew - new
Sun - son
Plane - plain
Whether - weather
Steal - steel
Grey -gray
But - butt
Read - reed
High - hi
Wrap - rap
To - too - two
Sea - see
Beach - beech
Die - dye
Scene - seen
Brake - break
Lie - ly

Then we have words with the same spelling but don't mean the same thing?

Saw (tool) - saw ( see)
Tap (water) - tap (hit)
Split (slice) - split (space)
Union (join) - union (labor organization)
Boot (shoe) - boot (kick)

How can anyone from another country learn this crazy language????

Ok, I Will knot right any moore!

(( ;

Ed Frias
EFE

[kexodusc]

Geez, Ed, you forget to take your pills again? :D

You forgot:

Speaker (talker) Speaker (sound reproduction device)

Don't get me started on woofer, tweeter, and squawker...
We never hear the term "squawker" anymore...why's that?

[cam]

How about fish (1 fish) and fish (lots of fish)
Deer (1deer) and deer (more then 1 deer) and oh ya dear, our significant other
goose- geese
wolf- wolves
knife- knives
wife- wives
so many more but I'm headin out now.

[EFE Speakers]

May-b wee shued just spll werds lyk they sound, no radic-u-lus spelleen ruels tu fall-o?


((( ;

EFE

[This Guy]

How about fish (1 fish) and fish (lots of fish)
Deer (1deer) and deer (more then 1 deer) and oh ya dear, our significant other
goose- geese
wolf- wolves
knife- knives
wife- wives
so many more but I'm headin out now.

i thought fish meant lots of fish. But then I see my biology teacher saying "fishes" is the right term so I still don't know about that. I have to take a spanish class, it's incredibly hard, atleast for me. I'm gonna forget it all when school is out. Then I look at my own language and feel bad for the people trying to learn it.

[dean_martin]

May-b wee shued just spll werds lyk they sound, no radic-u-lus spelleen ruels tu fall-o?


((( ;

EFE

evree inglish spellen rool has an eksepshun!

[cam]

i thought fish meant lots of fish. But then I see my biology teacher saying "fishes" is the right term so I still don't know about that. I have to take a spanish class, it's incredibly hard, atleast for me. I'm gonna forget it all when school is out. Then I look at my own language and feel bad for the people trying to learn it.
Let your biology teacher know that fishes is not a word. You have one fish, or many fish, not many fishes. Maybe you can disect some fish for him while you are at it.

[EFE Speakers]

Actually the word fishes does exist in one case!

Fish can equal 1 fish.

Fish can equal a large number of fish, like a school of fish.

Fishes is only used to describe a number of various fish of different kinds,
such as - there are fishes in my pond. It not only means more than one but of different species or types.

This is probably one of the only rare things I do remember from school?? )) ;

EFE

[kexodusc]

How about "he fishes for a living"...Fishes is definitely a real world...context is something else.

I've always had a beef with people that try to use big words in a sentence when short-sweet-and to the point would suffice...
Case in point - "utilize"...as my english teacher said:
"Never utilize "utilize" when you can use "use".

Guess I'm a from the Hemmingway school.

Ed, you're hurting my brain with all this talk...Fun thread.

[cam]

Your right Kex, fishes can be used as an action word. My bad. Also you might be right there EFE Speakers, but this does sound kind of funny, "He fishes for fishes in the pond because he likes to eat many kinds of fishes". Huh!

[EFE Speakers]

After reading some of the other postings on drugs, abortions, homosexuality and so on, I thought something more sensible, interesting and fun would change the mood around here. We'll never all agree on political or moral issues, so I stay away from them. Now God, there is my favorite subject, but again I know it will only raise temperatures so I'll be glad to discuss Him via e-mail only! (( ;

EFE

[paul_pci]

How about "he fishes for a living"...Fishes is definitely a real world...context is something else.

I've always had a beef with people that try to use big words in a sentence when short-sweet-and to the point would suffice...
Case in point - "utilize"...as my english teacher said:
"Never utilize "utilize" when you can use "use".

Guess I'm a from the Hemmingway school.

Ed, you're hurting my brain with all this talk...Fun thread.

As someone with a copious vocabulary, I must fervently dissent.

[EFE Speakers]

>> As someone with a copious vocabulary, I must fervently dissent. <<

It's possible my english teacher was wrong, but I guess I never questioned him on the word "fishes."

Do you disagree with the word itself or the meaning?

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EFE

[kexodusc]

Ed, I think he's disagreeing with my comment about being wordy for the sake of being wordy...which I wasn't terribly serious about :D

[paul_pci]

Ed, I think he's disagreeing with my comment about being wordy for the sake of being wordy...which I wasn't terribly serious about :D

Precisely and Precisely.