Do we really need the English language?

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The English language, my oldest enemy. I love the invention of languages and I love that we now have a lot of them but I'm most particular about the ones I can speak which would include English and English.

I don't know how to speak any other language except we're counting love languages. Did you know people actually get degrees for studying English? Yeah, my friend studied English in a school and has a degree for it..I learnt English for free.

I communicate with him well too, there are no special words he uses, I understand him perfectly and he spent four years studying that?

The funny thing about studying the English language is there are no much jobs to do apart from teaching the English language, it's starting to look like a pyramid scheme. Learn English to teach English so they can learn English to teach English.

I never really did understand the English language, can you blame me? There are a lot of confusing things, for example, there's no ham in hamburger, french fries are not from france, and there's no egg in eggplant.

I know I'm not the smartest person around but who came up with these? I feel like whoever was left in charge of naming things was just like me, lazy!!

Sometimes, English itself is more confusing than maths and that says a lot coming from me. Why on earth do nose run and feet smell? Why do we recite at a play and play at a recital? We fill out a form just to fill it in?

Around 98 new words are being formed every week like we didn't have enough already. An average human being knows about fifty thousand words their entire lifetime but if you're like me then you only know three, sleep, money, and food.

If you don't have the same thoughts as I do on the English language then answer this, if vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?

It's even misleading, quick sand takes you down slowly, a house has to burn up to burn down and these are just the ones I could think of, imagine the countless out there that hasn't come to me yet.

It even extends to fruits and animals too, there's no pine or apple in pineapple. How do I explain to kids that guinea pigs are neither pigs nor are from guinea? It didn't even make sense.

I might just be spinning here, maybe I'm the one taking things from a different perspective. Maybe I'm confused about a lot of things because I didn't study it but even my friend, you know, the one who has a degree in English can't seem to explain some of these too.

My way around the language is I try not to think about it, that's very hard to do when everybody speaks it around you.

Thank God we have the language, I wouldn't be writing this if we didn't, I'd probably use morse code but let's tune it down a little shall we.



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I dunno why we don't accept posts in ibibio in this community. Normally I'm funnier in ibibio, English and it's complications limit me

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English is just too complicated. You are extremely right with all those words out have said. Why learning English when we can learn it for free?

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English is just there because its easily accessible, otherwise, me as an Iraqi wouldn't know how to communicate with anyone in this community.

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Not funny when you have plagiarise all your examples and pass it off as your own work

there's no ham in hamburger, french fries are not from france, and there's no egg in eggplant.
Why on earth do nose run and feet smell? Why do we recite at a play and play at a recital? We fill out a form just to fill it in?
if vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?
quick sand takes you down slowly, a house has to burn up to burn down
there's no pine or apple in pineapple.
guinea pigs are neither pigs nor are from guinea?

http://allowe.com/laughs/book/English%20is%20Hard.htm

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Hi @livinguktaiwan, hope you're having a good day, I saw a TikTok video and thought it would be funny to talk about the English language a bit, I did not plagiarise. If you want I can send you a link to the video to see for yourself. These are general jokes not only said by one person but a lot of people and I when added some of mine to make it smooth.

My class teacher did a bit once on a runny nose and smelly feet. Trevor Noah also talks about how french fries are not from france.

I have been on hive for a while and I haven't plagiarised. I wasn't going to start now.

If you are not still convinced, I would take it down immediately

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It seems like you have no idea what plagiarism means.

All your examples are not your own ideas, you're just taking bits and pieces from the internet and stringing them together to make a post. If you remove them, you have nothing. You're just repeating what people have said before, and that makes it not original content.

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I understand now. It was lack of understanding on my part, I'm sorry. Do I take it down?

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Do whatever you want, but if you keep on plagiarising parts of internet you won't get very far. If you don't know what toe wrestling or other things are, then don't try to be cool and talk about it. Likewise, if you don't know Spanish, and can't be bothered to respond to a comment written in Spanish, then why post it Spanish? Fishing for Spanish whale votes is neither funny nor cool. It just makes you look desperate.

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Make sense. I've always been confused about the language,vwe have a bunch of words that sound alike but have different meanings

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