English Is A Beautiful, Rich, and Crazy (sorry) Language!

@antonbunot (11091)

• Calgary, Alberta

26 Sep 16

hahahaha! @Hatley . . thanks for complementing the humor of my article! It is humor, I hope other fellow myLoters won't take it seriously!

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Marlina

@marlina (154166)

• Canada

26 Sep 16

Yes, I love the English language but I also love the French language a lot.

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Marlina

@marlina (154166)

• Canada

26 Sep 16

@antonbunot And they were right! Quebec is the place to learn French.

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@antonbunot (11091)

• Calgary, Alberta

26 Sep 16

@marlina In 1992 My then young family immigrated to Canada and we settled in Kelowna. I wanted to learn French, so I phoned the city. They told me that I should go to Quebec if I wanted to learn the language!

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@antonbunot (11091)

• Calgary, Alberta

26 Sep 16

@marlina You may be right . . . but since Canada is bilingual . . . we (including immigrants) should be given the opportunity to learn both languages anywhere we are in Canada. Right?

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much2say

@much2say (53959)

• Los Angeles, California

27 Sep 16

I don't know if I love it - it's just there

. Actually English was my second language even though I was born here. Japanese was my first (though I've never been through a tsunami

). So I think when you're a kid growing up with this language, you just roll with it and don't think how strange it can be. But relatives and friends who don't live here do tell me how crazy English is and how can we track of it all!

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much2say

@much2say (53959)

• Los Angeles, California

28 Sep 16

@antonbunot Yes - we are both hyphenated people

And what is this about a Japanese wheel during the Jurassic period???

Is that the gigantic wheel that creates tsunamis in the ocean?

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@antonbunot (11091)

• Calgary, Alberta

28 Sep 16

@much2say Hmmm, Filipinos think that way because of Honda, Yamaha, Mitsubishi, Nissan, and so on. So, a Japanese fellow must have invented the wheel.

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@antonbunot (11091)

• Calgary, Alberta

28 Sep 16

@much2say Ha!? You are Japanese-American . . . just like me Filipino-Canadian!? You know lots of Filipinos believe that it was a Japanese fellow who invented the wheel during the Jurassic period!

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topffer

@topffer (42156)

• France

26 Sep 16

I think that English is a lot of easier than, let's say Spanish. With your user name, I suppose you speak Spanish

. "Ser" and "estar", meaning both "to be" are evil for an English native speaker, like for a French native speaker : "ser bueno", to be kind, "estar bueno", to be good to eat, not exactly the same

. "Ser listo", to be smart, "estar listo", to be ready, etc. Crazy, really

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topffer

@topffer (42156)

• France

26 Sep 16

@antonbunot I did not took you too seriously

. Yes, it is humor, and you can find "crazy" things like that in any language I guess. "The limits of my language are the limits of my world" said a philosopher. Speaking 3 languages you have increased your limits

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topffer

@topffer (42156)

• France

26 Sep 16

@antonbunot Oh, I am a bad myLot member, and I had not read the responses before giving mine

. Humor or sarcasm here are not always understood like they should be

...

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@antonbunot (11091)

• Calgary, Alberta

26 Sep 16

@toffer, Si, hablo y escribo espanol porque es nuestro lenguaje Segundo en las Pilipinas . . English tambien. Anyway, some fellow myLoters may take this article seriously . . but I wrote and posted it as humor! And you may be surprised that English is our official language in the Philippines . . even more popularly spoken than Tagalog, our national language .

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Toni

@toniganzon (72285)

• Philippines

26 Sep 16

Crazy English language. I was obsessed with it for quite awhile in my youth. But gone are the days of my youth. I no longer love the American English. French intrigues me, and the old English language. American English is not English if you're going to ask the British people lol!

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@antonbunot (11091)

• Calgary, Alberta

26 Sep 16

@toniganzon . . that is why I made it clear to @JaboUK . . . that I am talking about American English not their English English!

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rebel_woman06

@SIMPLYD (90722)

• Philippines

27 Sep 16

That's why before venturing into a foreign country , one should first have at least a brief study of the language .

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rebel_woman06

@SIMPLYD (90722)

• Philippines

29 Sep 16

@antonbunot

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rebel_woman06

@SIMPLYD (90722)

• Philippines

29 Sep 16

@antonbunot Wen Manong !

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@antonbunot (11091)

• Calgary, Alberta

27 Sep 16

@SIMPLYD I could never forget that young Canadian sales lady who was giggling while I was talking to her a week after our arrival here in Canada in 1992. She said she loved my accent and my complete sentences!

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snowy

@snowy22315 (169963)

• United States

27 Sep 16

This is the reason that so many people have difficulty learning the English language.

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@antonbunot (11091)

• Calgary, Alberta

27 Sep 16

@snowy22315 Actually, it is one of the easiest to learn . . But I think Spanish is the easiest.

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hereandthere

@hereandthere (45651)

• Philippines

27 Sep 16

i remember when dunkin donuts was new here. the branch we went to was near a rich residential area. one of the customers actually asked her companion for 2 bucks (instead of 'dalawang piso' or '2 pesos'). i was surprised and thought they accept dollars in that branch. hahaha!

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@antonbunot (11091)

• Calgary, Alberta

27 Sep 16

@hereandthere . . Must be English-spokening!

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Hazel Vee

@epiffanie (11326)

• Australia

28 Sep 16

I always tell my grandson to sit up, after telling him to sit down

.. Yes indeed , English is confusing sometimes ..

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@antonbunot (11091)

• Calgary, Alberta

28 Sep 16

@epiffanie I mean why do we have to say stand up . . . "You are standing down, please stand up!"

Is it not correct to say - - sit straight instead of sit up straight . . . stand straight instead of stand up straight?

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Anne Marie Guyer

@LeaPea2417 (36440)

• Toccoa, Georgia

3 Nov 16

Yes, I do love the English language. It is my main language and of course I think it makes the most sense. It has a lot of exceptions and idioms, but all languages have their own quirky rules.

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@antonbunot (11091)

• Calgary, Alberta

4 Nov 16

@LeaPea2417 . . . Don't take my post seriously . . . Just h-u-m-o-r!

. . I love the English language.

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Jabo

@jaboUK (64361)

• United Kingdom

26 Sep 16

Oh, lol about the bucks! Yes English can be a very complicated language, the cause of much hilarity and confusion

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Jabo

@jaboUK (64361)

• United Kingdom

27 Sep 16

@antonbunot Well British English can be confusing too.

I just wrote a post about Prince William, and you are right they do seem a decent couple.

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@antonbunot (11091)

• Calgary, Alberta

26 Sep 16

@jaboUK . . . I am talking about American English not English English!

. . . . O, I watched the Royal couple on TV yesterday . . . . A beautiful young family!

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M.-L.

@MALUSE (69413)

• Germany

26 Sep 16

A lot can be explained with the history of the British Empire. English spread all over the world and at the same incorporated many terms from the conquered territories. No language has a greater vocabulary. box and ox don't have the same plural form because box is of Latin origin and ox is of Germanic origin. If you're interested in the origin of words, check 'stand up' and 'sit down' describe the movement, 'stand' and 'sit' the situation. You need the prepositions to differentiate. You can't say 'I stood up for two hours' or 'I need to sit for a moment. Please stand.' 'Believe you me' is an emphatic form and not 'normal' English. And so on and so forth. You can learn these things when you study English at uni, at least in Germany.

www.dictionary.com.

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@antonbunot (11091)

• Calgary, Alberta

26 Sep 16

Thanks! I am an English major back home . . . And I learned English and Latin including Spanish in the seminary. I lost my vocation to the priesthood though . . . And I wrote this as a humor.

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M.-L.

@MALUSE (69413)

• Germany

26 Sep 16

@antonbunot When you say 'back home', does that mean that you live somewhere else now?

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@antonbunot (11091)

• Calgary, Alberta

26 Sep 16

@MALUSE I live in Canada . . was born and graduated from a catholic seminary in the Philippines.

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Nanette Piotrowski

@nanette64 (20364)

• Fairfield, Texas

27 Sep 16

And don't even get me started on Black Slang @antonbunot !!!!! You can't understand a word they're saying and they were born in the US.

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@antonbunot (11091)

• Calgary, Alberta

27 Sep 16

@nanette64 O, yeah?!

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Thelma

@thelme55 (76476)

• Germany

27 Sep 16

Very funny. I enjoyed reading it a lot. English is indeed a beautiful language but it is sometimes crazy when you don´t know how to use the words or make the right grammar.

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@antonbunot (11091)

• Calgary, Alberta

27 Sep 16

@thelme55 In 1993 we met a 55-year-old lady (Ate Lourdes from Moncada, Tarlac) in Kelowna City, British Columbia. O, she was a very talkative lady. We were in a Laundromat and several Canadian men and women were listening to her telling things about the Philippines. She said - "In the Felepenz we hev so much vej-eh-tah-bels!" One man asked her - What is vej-eh-tah-bels?" She replied - "You don't know vej-eh-tah-bels?" The Canadian men and another woman said - "No!" . . . She asked me to tell them what is vej-eh-tah-bels." I told them - - "She means vej'tebls!" . . and they responded laughing - - "Ahhh!"

. . Wrong accent and pronunciation!

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Thelma

@thelme55 (76476)

• Germany

28 Sep 16

@antonbunot

Some of us Filipinos really over pronounced the english words that the english speaking people and sometimes myself could not understand.

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LK2018

@Letranknight2015 (51523)

• Philippines

27 Sep 16

Not really, I wasn't a fan of the american english language. I thought speaking English was enough, I didn't realize you have to perfect it. These days, I don't speak the English language anymore.

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@antonbunot (11091)

• Calgary, Alberta

27 Sep 16

@LetranKnight2015 I tell you that whereas in the Philippines we are very conscious of the English grammar. We speak and write English grammatically correct. In the West they don't care about grammar.

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solxee

@sol_cee (38223)

• Philippines

27 Sep 16

What did you do to the immigrant after?

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@antonbunot (11091)

• Calgary, Alberta

27 Sep 16

@sol_cee Ngek! What did I do? He is a man not a woman!

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DianneN

@DianneN (246814)

• United States

27 Sep 16

Lol! Great story. It is a difficult language, with many idioms, but other languages can be just as difficult.

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@antonbunot (11091)

• Calgary, Alberta

27 Sep 16

@DuanneN I don't think it is as difficult as learning Mandarin.

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@acelawrites

@acelawrites (19273)

• Philippines

26 Sep 16

It's hard when there's language barrier.

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@antonbunot (11091)

• Calgary, Alberta

26 Sep 16

@acelawrites what do you mean by language barrier?

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Bhem

@JustBhem (70555)

• Davao, Philippines

26 Sep 16

It is the Universal language and we are communicating right now using that. lol

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@antonbunot (11091)

• Calgary, Alberta

26 Sep 16

@JustBhem . . . . Right!

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Ajiri Otedheke

@minders1 (83)

• Lagos, Nigeria

27 Sep 16

Nice post...I think one interesting thing about English is that it is a very accommodating language that can borrow words from all other language. It is truly dynamic. People have even form their own versions of English.. American English, Brirtish English, Nigerian Pidgin English , Jamaican English with alot of slangs. I feel the language try to embraced all people.

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