Let's face it --
English is a crazy 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 can work slowly, boxing rings are 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, that you comb through annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preacher praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue?
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? Park on driveways and drive on parkways? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another.
Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Met asung hero or experienced requited love? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who ARE spring chickens or who would ACTUALLY hurt a fly?
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 clock goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all). Thatis why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it.
Friday, June 11, 2010
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Goodbye...
People share moments,
Bad, Good, Happy, Tough,...
And then they must part,
usually it's very rough.
Some die on you...
Some never "grow" on you...
But they always leave.
Some leave with grieve, some with deceive...
There is a feeling of sadness...
You remember all the time spent...
You remember all the time spent...
You feel like something takes over you, madness...
But what did they really meant?
Saying the words, "You Must Go On"
Saying the words, "You Must Go On"
It's like you die but yet live on...
It's having the freedom
But nowhere to go, boredom.
How do you let go of meaning?
How can one ever STOP feeling?
Where's the line in love?
What's that you speak of?
We shared the joy and shared the pain
How can one ever STOP feeling?
Where's the line in love?
What's that you speak of?
We shared the joy and shared the pain
of several forgotten years
And as my heart recalls the joys...
My eyes recall the tears...
For although life is never perfect
And things were not quite right
It's better to love in silence
Than not be missed at night.
And things were not quite right
It's better to love in silence
Than not be missed at night.
In our Great plans of future
there was a tiny flaw...
You grew to know me as no other
You grew to know me as no other
And rejected what you saw.
The rejection seems filled with uncertainty
Filled with incompetence and arrogance
How can you take Today away from me, romance,
How can you take Today away from me, romance,
When you have given my heart Infinity?
I feel that my profound words,
I feel that my profound words,
Will help someone, someday...
And now I leave them here;
I try to find my way.
The world just seems so small
So distant and obscure...
And my purpose here?
Became something so unsure.
Became something so unsure.
Even far away, we were together
Young, we shared many tears...
You have promised me forever
You left me lonely to face the years!
Have I told you what I've seen?
Our unborn child in your eyes...
Have I told you what I've seen?
Our unborn child in your eyes...
I've experienced your soul...
I've learned the feeling of the wise.
Today I take the quietness of a saddened heart
When life's not understood...
When things cannot be explaind
I cry, I just wish they could.
And you walk away
And you take my future too
But what hurts me most
Is the pain I feel, matters nothing to you.
I'm happy it happened,
I'm happy it happened,
I'm sorry it did not last...
Life is about choices..
You chose to be my Past.
And I wipe away my tears,
And I give a big sigh...
You took away, with you, my fears;
It's time to say: Goodbye.
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