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Ever wonder why one who drives is a driver, one who sings is a singer but one who cooks is not a cooker and one who draws is not a drawer? [:p]

 

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1. how come doctors are still practising?

 

2. you talk behind the back.....how can you do so? the behind of the back is.....in front!!

 

3. Lawyers also still practising

 

4. Why u call a parliament sitting? the speakers mostly standing?

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Those who knows the answers had already left MCF forum to a higher plane.

 

 

er, up or below?

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No egg in eggplant.

 

No ham in hamburger

 

neither apple nor pine in pineapple

 

English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.

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"English is complicated!", says no German.

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Whats the difference between Fat chance & slim chance?

 

Why is it call near miss, & not near hit?

 

I park here because it says, 'Fine for parking'.

 

English are very interesting people, & like to name their food & drink. I now work in an English film, Yesterday, I ate a choloate bar call 'John' from the fridge. This morning I have a Joguart call 'Mary'.

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Hypersonic

Why is the man who invest all your money is called a 'broker'.

 

The person who makes you broke is of course called the broker -_-

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Why is it that "quite a bit" and "quite a lot" are quite the same thing?

 

Why is it that we have noses that run and feet that smell?

 

If a flammable object catches fire easily, what about an "inflammable" object?

 

Why does the word "irregardless" still exist when "regardless" is quite sufficient?

 

Why must the perpendicular pronoun always come last when among other subjects? e.g. "John, Jim and I are going to the pub later". Quite the pain if you've forgotten someone, because by right, you have to amend the whole sentence. If the rule is there because of "modesty" or "self-effacement", then it's bollocks because it's a false and artificial modesty at best.

 

I'm sure I can dredge up more pet peeves with regard to standard English. But not as many as I can about the atrocious vernacular that often passes for "English" in the local context. I'm not referring to Singlish, which I actually respect (and use) as a local patois, but the woefully ungrammatical English that people often insert into putatively formal emails in Singapore, e.g. the wrong use of the word "revert" in the context of getting back to someone.

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When do we use im or in when encountering words such as

 

- possible/impossible or patient/impatient

 

- visible/ invisible or correct/ incorrect etc...

 

Why cant it be not possible or not visible leh? [mad]

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"English is complicated!", says no German.

 

 

Whats the difference between Fat chance & slim chance?

 

Why is it call near miss, & not near hit?

 

I park here because it says, 'Fine for parking'.

 

English are very interesting people, & like to name their food & drink. I now work in an English film, Yesterday, I ate a choloate bar call 'John' from the fridge. This morning I have a Joguart call 'Mary'.

 

Yup, all these european languages are difficult to pick up because many things, even inanimate objects, are assigned a gender! Like in French.

 

The German language also has seemingly random way of starting a word with uppercase in the middle of sentences (what for?) or as they like it, just join up certain words to form a very long word (what's the general rule?)

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The one that screw someone is called a "F*cker... why the one that got screwed not known as "f*ckee...

(Eg: someone that employ is known as employer. Someone being employed is known as employEE ) [laugh]

Edited by LoverofCar
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