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I speak a little French, a touch of German and even less Latin… though technically I guess no one speaks Latin, we just trot it out at cocktail parties to impress people… which ironically, often has the opposite effect.
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When I was young my mother taught me a few helpful phrases in Hungarian… so if you’re ever in Budapest and need to say, Come here and kiss me? I’m your girl.
Language is a fascinating thing, but I’ve always felt sorry for people who need to learn ours…. because let’s face it, English is all over the place.
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I never thought about any of these…
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But they’re so true!
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Yup.
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English.
It’s clear as mud.
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River's world..... 
I know enough French to get my face slapped; and, enough Turkish to get stabbed in the abdomen…
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Better cross Turkey off your travel list. Think of all the extra shirts you’d have to pack…
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I heard English and Japanese were the hardest to learn. When I was a kid, I created a language with my friend Chris. We called it Cree. Used to drive our parents nuts. I got banned from speaking it at the dinner table.
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Which is probably where you needed it the most…
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My daughter and I invented a language that involved screaming and laughing hysterically.
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I speak that every time I have more than 3 cocktails!
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You mean – I’ve been spelling ghoughphtheightteeau wrong my whole life? Why has no one (including this “spell check” and every teacher I’ve ever had) taken any time to corrected me?
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It’s a scathing indictment of the educational system… no doubt about it.
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Love these. English is my second-ish language(I had a passing knowledge of Italian prior to moving to 🇨🇦) and I never learned the rules of grammar because why bother? For every rule there are several exceptions…. 😀
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With English I think there are more exceptions than rules.
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Just what I didn’t need—more English confusion!! I am still waiting for the English to talk American!
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We won’t live that long, thankfully.
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I’m sure there are a lot of rules I never learned, but yet people can ftill underftand me.
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You have entirely too much time on your hands……
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You may be right.
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“j’ai perdu mon chat”…..thats the only thing I can say in French without butchering the language. Ironically its I lost my cat in French.
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And I knew that because je parle un peu Francaise…
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So art thou familiar with Hungarian for wooden spoon ? How about vidi, vendi, drinki. Did I get that right ?
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Close enough. Cheers!
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Very Entertaining. I am at a loss for words.
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And I’m a lass who is less for that loss.
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These examples are great, and sadly, just the tip of the American English iceberg of exceptions to the rules. But hey, they keep things fun and challenging, even for those of us speaking English as our first language!
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If native speakers can’t understand it, what hope is there for others?
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So if I bake a ghoughphtheightteeau, and add sour cream, is it still delicious?
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Most definitely. Just harder to order at a restaurant….
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I would just point at the menu and let them figure it out.
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This is why I opt for “spud.”
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Less confusion, same great taste.
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