{"id":880,"date":"2013-10-10T19:53:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T02:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=880"},"modified":"2013-11-28T22:37:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T06:37:34","slug":"why-english-is-so-hard-to-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=880","title":{"rendered":"Why English is so Hard to Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 51px; height: 21px; overflow: hidden;\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=880\" data-send=\"false\" data-width=\"51\" data-show-faces=\"false\"><\/div><\/span><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=880\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-url=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=880\" data-text=\"Why English is so Hard to Learn\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=880\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_digg\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthrawnrickle.com%2F%3Fp%3D880&amp;title=Why+English+is+so+Hard+to+Learn\" class=\"mr_social_sharing_popup_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/buttons\/digg.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Digg This\" title=\"Digg This\"\/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_reddit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthrawnrickle.com%2F%3Fp%3D880\" class=\"mr_social_sharing_popup_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/buttons\/reddit.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Submit to reddit\" title=\"Submit to reddit\"\/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"linksalpha_button linksalpha_link\" href=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/social\/mobile\" data-url=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=880\" data-text=\"Why English is so Hard to Learn\" data-desc=\"When Jill and I married two years ago, twin thirteen-year-old boys and a sixteen-year-old girl came with the package. All three are remarkably intelligent. Selena is now in her junior year at college with a high GPA in a Marine Biology major. Arthur and Robert are high school juniors, each with a\" data-image=\"\" data-button=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/images\/social_share_button.png\" alt=\"Share\" class=\"linksalpha_image\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/scripts\/loader_iconbox.js?v=2.4\"><\/script><\/span><\/div><p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em>When Jill and I married two years ago, twin thirteen-year-old boys and a sixteen-year-old girl came with the package. All three are remarkably intelligent. Selena is now in her junior year at college with a high GPA in a Marine Biology major. Arthur and Robert are high school juniors, each with a high GPA in math-heavy, advance-placement-with college-credit classes. Recently, Arthur handed me the following essay (or is it a poem?), which is typical for how his mind works.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll start with a book, its binding is blue, I can\u00a0<i>read<\/i>\u00a0it to you, but when were done reading, the blue book is\u00a0<i>read<\/i>. Within this blue book, there are many words, 3 fours (4\/fore\/for), 3 twos (2\/to\/too), and 2 ones (1\/won).<\/p>\n<p>To\u00a0<i>site<\/i>\u00a0the book or have the book in\u00a0<i>sight<\/i>. To see some blue\u00a0<i>seas<\/i>, or see something to\u00a0<i>seize<\/i>. You can say \u201cI\u2019ll go,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m going,\u201d but not \u201cI goed.\u201d You can see a hoarse horse and a coarse course, or even a boar that\u2019s a bore, but a board will never be bored. \u201cIs not\u201d is \u201cisn\u2019t,\u201d \u201cwas not\u201d is \u201cwasn\u2019t,\u201d but \u201cwill not\u201d is \u201cwon\u2019t,\u201d not \u201cwilln\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can\u00a0<i>read<\/i>\u00a0and have\u00a0<i>read<\/i>,\u00a0<i>lead<\/i>\u00a0and have\u00a0<i>lead<\/i>, or can\u00a0<i>breed<\/i>\u00a0and have\u00a0<i>bread<\/i>, as well as have\u00a0<i>led<\/i>\u00a0or have\u00a0<i>bred<\/i>. Another thing to add, a match cannot box, but a tin can. You\u00a0<i>can<\/i>\u00a0<i>tune a<\/i>\u00a0piano, and you\u00a0<i>can<\/i>\u00a0<i>tuna<\/i>\u00a0fish. You\u00a0<i>saw<\/i>\u00a0the\u00a0<i>saw<\/i>, made a\u00a0<i>hole<\/i>\u00a0<i>whole<\/i>. 12 inches is a\u00a0<i>ruler<\/i>, a\u00a0<i>ruler<\/i>\u00a0was Queen Elizabeth, while fish have\u00a0<i>fins<\/i>, and the\u00a0<i>Finns<\/i>\u00a0fought the\u00a0<i>Russians<\/i>, and to go fast is to be\u00a0<i>rushin\u2019<\/i>\u00a0around.<\/p>\n<p>You can catch a drift, you can catch a cold, but neither are things you can hold. You can have a\u00a0<i>radish<\/i>\u00a0face or a\u00a0<i>turnip<\/i>\u00a0nose, while a\u00a0<i>cobbler<\/i>\u00a0mends\u00a0<i>soles<\/i>, and a preacher mends\u00a0<i>souls<\/i>, but a\u00a0<i>cobbler<\/i>\u00a0is neither a peach nor a stone. You can\u00a0<i>wait<\/i>\u00a0over here or get your\u00a0<i>weight<\/i>\u00a0over there.<\/p>\n<p>To go\u00a0<i>past<\/i>\u00a0something is to have\u00a0<i>passed<\/i>\u00a0it, and you can sit\u00a0<i>up<\/i>\u00a0or sit\u00a0<i>down<\/i>. To shut\u00a0<i>down<\/i>\u00a0is to stop working, to shut\u00a0<i>up<\/i>\u00a0is to stop talking, and you can open\u00a0<i>up<\/i>, but not open\u00a0<i>down<\/i>. It\u2019s possible to\u00a0<i>weave<\/i>\u00a0a basket or to\u00a0<i>weave<\/i>\u00a0around.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<i>Wright<\/i>\u00a0brothers were\u00a0<i>right<\/i>, and they could\u00a0<i>write<\/i>\u00a0with their\u00a0<i>right<\/i>, and a\u00a0<i>fisher<\/i>\u00a0could\u00a0<i>fish<\/i>\u00a0for a\u00a0<i>fish<\/i>\u00a0at a\u00a0<i>fissure<\/i>. An onomatopoeia is\u00a0<i>boing<\/i>, but\u00a0<i>going<\/i>\u00a0is not\u00a0<i>goyng<\/i>, but one could be\u00a0<i>going<\/i>\u00a0to make a sound like a\u00a0<i>Boeing<\/i>. If you\u2019re\u00a0<i>Finn<\/i>ish you\u2019re a\u00a0<i>Finn<\/i>, but if you\u2019re\u00a0<i>Engl<\/i>ish you\u2019re not an\u00a0<i>Engl<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Your<\/i>\u00a0car is not\u00a0<i>their<\/i>\u00a0car, but\u00a0<i>you\u2019re<\/i>\u00a0able to be over\u00a0<i>there<\/i>. You can be a<i>lert<\/i>\u00a0or a<i>ghast<\/i>, can a<i>pplaud<\/i>\u00a0or be a<i>lone<\/i>, but there are no such things as\u00a0<i>lerts<\/i>,\u00a0<i>ghasts<\/i>,\u00a0<i>pplauds<\/i>, or\u00a0<i>lones<\/i>, even though you can\u00a0<i>plod<\/i>\u00a0through the forest and get a\u00a0<i>loan<\/i>\u00a0from the bank. Tigers don\u2019t tyg, vipers don\u2019t vipe, adders don\u2019t add, and a fork in the road is not a discarded utensil.<\/p>\n<p>If the flower was lifted, then the\u00a0<i>rose<\/i>\u00a0<i>rose<\/i>. And on one dark,\u00a0<i>stormy<\/i>\u00a0<i>night<\/i>, the dark\u00a0<i>knight<\/i>\u00a0<i>stormed<\/i>\u00a0the castle. If the \u201ck\u201d in knife is silent, why isn\u2019t know pronounced \u201cnow\u201d? When you die you don\u2019t turn into an\u00a0<i>angle<\/i>, and you cannot measure the\u00a0<i>angel<\/i>\u00a0of a triangle. You can\u00a0<i>leave<\/i>\u00a0the\u00a0<i>leaves<\/i>\u00a0on a tree, or\u00a0<i>shoot<\/i>\u00a0the\u00a0<i>shoots<\/i>\u00a0of bamboo.<\/p>\n<p>You can eat a\u00a0<i>meat<\/i>, but not eat a\u00a0<i>meet<\/i>. You can be stonewalled, but not brickwalled. You can check out and check in, cross out but not cross in. After you shake you shook, after you take you took, but after you bake you did not book, and while you can cook and look, you cannot cake or lake. And what about the snake?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s entirely possible to have\u00a0<i>sense<\/i>,\u00a0<i>cents<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>scents<\/i>, as well as make\u00a0<i>sense<\/i>,\u00a0<i>cents<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>scents<\/i>. It is also possible to have\u00a0<i>sent<\/i>, but not make\u00a0<i>sent<\/i>. You can have\u00a0<i>time<\/i>\u00a0and have\u00a0<i>thyme<\/i>, you can\u00a0<i>rime<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>rhyme<\/i>. There are puff<i>ins<\/i>, but not puff<i>outs<\/i>, pengu<i>ins<\/i>, but not pengu<i>outs<\/i>, and<i>\u00a0foot<\/i>ball is played with your\u00a0<i>hands<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>If \u201csleep\u201d is to \u201cslept\u201d and \u201ccreep\u201d is to \u201ccrept,\u201d wouldn\u2019t \u201cpeep\u201d be to \u201cpept\u201d? 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