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David In Indy:
--- Quote from: injest on December 06, 2008, 10:20:06 pm ---I think we say we are getting out of the car and the canoe because we are going up...when you get off a plane you are stepping down...
just my opinion...
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Not if they use a jetway!! You walk off. There are no steps. I know. I'm being nitpicky, aren't I? :-\
injest:
--- Quote from: DavidinIndy on December 06, 2008, 10:47:09 pm ---Not if they use a jetway!! You walk off. There are no steps. I know. I'm being nitpicky, aren't I? :-\
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jetways are newfangled....everyone has gotten all used to using those terms from the 1700s! Give it another three, four hundred years and it will change..
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on December 06, 2008, 10:35:34 pm ---He starts a routine about school and asking questions that can't be answered, and then he changes into our language.....here is near where the language comes in.
Part of the "transcription" will have spelling mistakes, because the only way to translate the humor will be to do it phonetically.
Why do they call them "cowboys", cows are girls, bulls are boys, they should be cowgirls and bullboys!
Why do they call a statue a bust when it ends just before the part it's named after?
Why do they call them "buildings" when they're already done building them? Oughta call them "builts".
Why do they call it a "tv set" when you only get one?
Why do they call a woman's prison a "penial colony"?
Why should I be serious about our language, if it isn't serious enough to make sense?
Let's take the word 'bomb'. B-O-M-B. 'bomb'. Ok then, T-O-M-B, tom? Nooooo..Tooom. Ok T-O-M-B, tooom, C-O-M-B, cooom? Noooooo coam. Ok C-O-M-B, come, P-O-M-B, poem? No, that's P-O-E-M. Ok, P-O-E-M, poem, H-O-E-M, home? No that's H-O-M-E. Ok, H-O-M-E, home, S-O-M-E, soom? No, that "sum". Alrighty then, S-O-M-E "sum", N-O-M-E "numb?" No that's N-U-M-B!!!!
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:laugh: :laugh:
I know, it's a crazy language!! There are so many examples.
Climb. Why is the I long and the b is silent? But if you take the C off, you get the word limb. But the I is no longer long. It's short. Why? I feel really sorry for people who must learn English as a second language. It must be awfully confusing. :P
Thanks for taking the time to type that out for me Chuck. I enjoyed it! :-*
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: injest on December 06, 2008, 10:51:58 pm ---jetways are newfangled....everyone has gotten all used to using those terms from the 1700s! Give it another three, four hundred years and it will change..
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Hmmm. That STILL doesn't explain why I get OFF a raft and OUT of a canoe!! ;) ;D
CellarDweller:
You're welcome, buddy! ;D
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