Thursday, April 30, 2009

Ah! the flakiness of our beloved English language!!!!

I Just received this forward, and I thought I might share this with you all. This is the most hilarious poem I have ever read! You should read it to get a few laughs! It is always contested that English language is weird and downright meaningless and yet it is the most common and universally accepted language. There is something about this language which pulls attention towards itself . It may be insane , it may be wacky but it still is the most desired and most happening language in the world! So lets read this crazy poem about the equally crazy yet august language! :)



There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger;
neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads,
which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted.
But if we explore its paradoxes,
we find that quicksand is not quick but can work slowly,
boxing rings are not round but square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing,
grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
If the plural of tooth is teeth,
why isn't the plural of booth, beeth?
One goose, 2 geese. So one moose,2 meese?
One index, 2 indices?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them,
then what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be
committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.
In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?
Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,
while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy
of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down,
in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which,
an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people,
not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course,
is not a race at all.
That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible,
but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

-Anonymous

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

The most shocking Pictures!

Please save animals from being killed in the most gruesome way just to make goods for the sake of some ridiculous looking products!











The most shocking pictures I have ever seen! I was never a fan of leather goods because I did not like the look of it. But now I am totally against leather goods. I cannot imagine how a person can be so insensitive and so sickeningly cruel. I am not a big fan of animals , but that does not mean that I will kill all animals so that I can have what I want ! Among all animals , I like snakes. Seeing these pictures made me want to kill myself for being a human. It is a shame what people will do for money and looks. I cannot see how people can be paid for slaughtering animals callously. Don't animals have as much right as we do? Don't they deserve to be treated with respect? I am extremely glad that I am a vegetarian. I am appealing to people to check these pictures out and stop using leather goods. They are many other materials that look good on you! Please do not encourage the slaying of innocent animals just because they are overpowered and cannot speak out. Let's not put mankind to shame by being barbarous. It is bad enough that humans kill humans. So please do what you can to save these animals who are being killed in such a disgusting fashion!

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Ah! the flakiness of our beloved English language!!!!

I Just received this forward, and I thought I might share this with you all. This is the most hilarious poem I have ever read! You should read it to get a few laughs! It is always contested that English language is weird and downright meaningless and yet it is the most common and universally accepted language. There is something about this language which pulls attention towards itself . It may be insane , it may be wacky but it still is the most desired and most happening language in the world! So lets read this crazy poem about the equally crazy yet august language! :)



There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger;
neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads,
which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted.
But if we explore its paradoxes,
we find that quicksand is not quick but can work slowly,
boxing rings are not round but square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing,
grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
If the plural of tooth is teeth,
why isn't the plural of booth, beeth?
One goose, 2 geese. So one moose,2 meese?
One index, 2 indices?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them,
then what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be
committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.
In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?
Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,
while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy
of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down,
in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which,
an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people,
not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course,
is not a race at all.
That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible,
but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

-Anonymous

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

The most shocking Pictures!

Please save animals from being killed in the most gruesome way just to make goods for the sake of some ridiculous looking products!











The most shocking pictures I have ever seen! I was never a fan of leather goods because I did not like the look of it. But now I am totally against leather goods. I cannot imagine how a person can be so insensitive and so sickeningly cruel. I am not a big fan of animals , but that does not mean that I will kill all animals so that I can have what I want ! Among all animals , I like snakes. Seeing these pictures made me want to kill myself for being a human. It is a shame what people will do for money and looks. I cannot see how people can be paid for slaughtering animals callously. Don't animals have as much right as we do? Don't they deserve to be treated with respect? I am extremely glad that I am a vegetarian. I am appealing to people to check these pictures out and stop using leather goods. They are many other materials that look good on you! Please do not encourage the slaying of innocent animals just because they are overpowered and cannot speak out. Let's not put mankind to shame by being barbarous. It is bad enough that humans kill humans. So please do what you can to save these animals who are being killed in such a disgusting fashion!