Apparently this reminder is needed.
It is a meme.
English is not the only language with homonyms.
In French if something isn’t functioning properly you say that “il ne marche pas.” Now, in my studies, “marche” means “walk.” So to me that says “it doesn’t walk.” I asked a native speaker about that and they told me, no, that is not what that means.
It’s like saying your fridge is not running.
Then you… better go… catch it… em… oh… Hangs Up
Noses run, feet smell. Everybody knows that.
Wait till you find out about du coup -
I’ve been trained in your Jedi arts by Count Du coup.
Je vais arrêter maintenant.
Same in German. “Es geht nicht.”
I’m English Canadian with a lot of French Canadian family and friends … I don’t speak French but I’ve been around it all my life … here’s one for you …
Le ver vert va vers le verre vert
And back to English: Aaron earned an iron urn
You’re a homonym.
English should just adopt hanzi. All problems solved.
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Military, air filter, paint brush, wax seal, Mike Tyson, sea-lion!
That’s Seal, a Bri’ish musician/singer.
Oh yikes, I’ll have to check him out now, thanks!
Bay-bayehhh
comments you can hear
All the pictures are of things called “seal”… That’s the joke dude
whoooooooooosh
Soldier, plug, varnish, wax seal, some dude, seal?
Navy seal , rubber seal, wood seal wax seal, Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel, animal seal
Ah yes, the navy seal in the middle of the desert.
And still people think global warming isn’t a problem.
Among the SEALs’ main functions are conducting small-unit special operation missions in maritime, jungle, urban, arctic, mountainous, and desert environments
some dude.
My…my lawn…
Is this a “get off my lawn” joke? Sorry, just confused. :P
If it is, don’t worry, I’m sure my age has little to do with my ignorance. It’s probably more that I just don’t follow celebrities.
I think that’s famed character actor Morris Chesnut.
Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel
Soldier Dunno Brush Stamp Seal Seal
Ohh… Seal seal seal seal seal seal
Three of those are the same thing and the other three are named after each other
Navy seal isn’t named after seal the animal. It’s an “acronym” for sea air and land.
And the fact that it’s a marine mammal is a coincidence? No it’s a backronym much like every other law’s name
SAAL?
I don’t get how English is hard. I learned it when I was just a kid.
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I think the above commenter was aware of that.
I hope you are joking because that’s not at all how it works. There is a certain age when you are capable of learning a language easily. This time window closes naturally. It has nothing to do with the problematic school system
Google for a poem called “The Chaos”. It starts with “Dearest creature in creation”. Read it out loud without errors.
Here it is. I was going to paste the whole text in here until I realized what a monster of a poem it is.
As a native speaker, dang, that’s not easy!
A few words I’m not sure on.
As a non-native speaker, it took me a quite few trials to get things right. And it contained a shitload of surprizes.
There is a reason this poem is called “The Chaos”.
And, have you read it aloud? ;-)
But it is good that you provided the link instead of the text, as the link contains a load of additional information about the poem and its author.
This poem could be the final test of an English course.
I can’t read easy English out loud correctly.
Fun fact, the word ‘set’ has 430 definitions.
That’s quite a set of definitions
If the set of definitions contains the word set, does the English language implode in a recursive cascade of paradoxes?
A set can totally contain itself. A better question would be: Consider a set, that contains all sets, that do not contain themself. Would that set contain itself?
It would. Source: I just shaved my beard
Yes, just relax the axiom of comprehension, allow U ∈ U and move on with proving things for fun and profit. No one said that you have to pick axioms that seem natural or intuitive.
Define “the” without using the word “the”… Take that logic! Set and match!
A common English definite article
Why use lot word when few word do trick?
This post double plus good.
Actually, that’s an argument for a more expanded vocabulary. You can use single words to consolidate.
Come on, you can’t count Seal the musician… That’s not a common name in English speaking countries. I’ve never heard of anyone else named Seal
Damn. I keep being surprised by how many people take stuff online way too seriously. Good meme, you get my seal of approval
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English is easy. The hardest part about it, which some other languages also feature, is a poor correspondence between the written and spoken language.
That feels intuitively correct to me, but I’m not sure if I’d say any language is particularly “easy”. Language is complex, complicated and only makes sense in the context of understanding human communication. Although language is also more intuitive than we give it credit for.
I think spoken Japanese is possibly “easier” than spoken English, but written Japanese (outside of digital media) is essentially impossible for me because I don’t have Kanji memorized.
I mean yes it’s a bit under-nuanced to describe any language as “easy” or “hard”. The single biggest influence is whether you’re already familiar with a similar language. English is going to be much easier if you already know German; Japanese will be much easier if you already know Okinawan. And as you say, written and spoke language can be quite different.
That said, I don’t think it is the case that all of the different factors trade off against one another perfectly. I would expect them to trade off against one another to an extent though, because I would imagine there are forces which cause overly complex languages to become simpler, and more simple languages to become more complex. (One aspect of complexity comes through redundancy, such as requiring agreement between inflections of words when the inflection only conveys information already imparted from the rest of the sentence. But extra redundancy can aid in understanding because the listener generally doesn’t hear everything perfectly)
But yeah, some languages just have incredibly complicated and picky grammar, whilst others have relatively simple grammar. As an English speaker, Japanese grammar has lots of unfamiliar features but could still be simpler than Finnish, which also has lots of unfamiliar grammar but which is very complex.
But all the three non human non animal things basically do the same thing. They prevent things from leaking out or in. So the word seal is apt.
Navy SEAL is an acronym. Doesn’t count.
So? “Laser” and “radar” are acronyms, but we use them as words
But an acronym that was intentionally made to be the name of the animal, so it’s just a duplicate, like all three of the non-singer seals, which just mean to lock something in or out. There are only 2 meanings of seal here, plus a singer who named himself after one of them.
English is only “hard” because it is shit. There ain’t no rules for nothing. All the “rules” have exceptions, which have exceptions, which have have exceptions.
Too wide spread, too many accents
Invented by an island of rock throwing mongrels.
