George and Mary Aughey » Funny Stuff http://www.gmaughey.com A Blog about Americans, Debts, Keeping More of Your Money and things Devotional Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:27:09 +0000 en hourly 1 Why learning English is so hard… http://www.gmaughey.com/why-learning-english-is-so-hard/ http://www.gmaughey.com/why-learning-english-is-so-hard/#comments Thu, 06 Jan 2011 01:46:42 +0000 admin http://www.gmaughey.com/?p=130 From an email:

Just ONE example of why English is SO difficult to learn . . . . .

Think about it.

UP

Read until the end…..you’ll laugh….

This two-letter word in English has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is ‘UP.’ It is listed in the dictionary as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v].

It’s easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?

At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP, and why are the officers UP for
election and why is it UP to the secretary to
write UP a report? We call UP our friends,
brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and fix UP the old car.


At other times this little word has real special
meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for
tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.

To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing:  A
drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.

We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed
UP about UP !

To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP,

look UP the word UP in the dictionary.. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of the page & can add UP to about thirty definitions.
If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don’t give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.

When it threatens to rain, we say it is
clouding UP. When the sun comes out
we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, the soil soaks UP the
water. When it does not rain for awhile, things dry UP. One could go on & on, but I’ll wrap it UP, for now  ……..my time is UP !


Oh….one more thing:
What is the first thing you
do in the morning & the last thing you do at
night?

U
P !


Did that one crack you UP?


Don’t screw UP. Send this on to everyone you look UP in your address book..or not…it’s UP to you. Now I’ll shut UP!

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It only takes a couple of seconds. I could not believe this! It is from an orthopedic surgeon………… This
will confuse your mind and you will keep trying over and over again to see if you can outsmart your foot,
but, you can’t. It is pre-programmed in your brain!
Here’s what you do:

  1. While sitting at your desk in front of your computer, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles.
  2. Now, while doing this, draw the number ’6′ in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction.

I told you so! And there’s nothing you can do about it! You and I both know how stupid it is,
but before the day is done you are going to try it again, if you’ve not already done so.
Have Fun!

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