If a Vegetarian Eats Vegetables, What Does a Humanitarian Eat?

lol i have never pondered much on these types of things.. I think maybe my mind has been elsewhere in the past.. sounds like something that my huby would have come up with though!! He and his one friend have some strange conversations sometimes, i just have to walk away shaking my head and thinking.. Why.? why oh why did i have to hear that?! lol.

Yes I too have disected the language and wondered at these things. I mean we drive on the parkway, park on the driveway, we read and read are spelled the same, sound the same and yet because one is pronounced read [red] she read out loud. and the other is pronouced read [reed] do you want to read now? There are just to many words in the english language that make no sense, I am amazed and impressed with anyone who has english as their second language. Why does famous and infamous mean the same thing? LOL

hahaha, that's so funny. Intelligent observation but funny. What about corn dogs? There's no corn mixed in it and it's definitely not made out of dog meat. Same goes for hot dogs, they're not always hot. What about star apples... they don't taste like apple, and they definitely don't look like stars. This is a very clever thread. keep it up...

It is funny isn't it. It's like sun being the ball in the sky and son, being a boy child. Or pitcher being a container you pour from or a guy that throws a ball or picture being something you hang on the wall. Thank God I am not having to learn English for the first time. My favorite one is there and their. I used to always mix those up. **AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~

LOL @ KUMQUAT!!! Heck no I wouldn't eat it but it's supposed to be good. Perfect, now I have anal leakage with a Kumquat attached..ewwwwwwwwwww but funny nonetheless. I have never actually thought twice about stuff like that honestly. If I did I probably wouldn't eat Ranch dressing..after all horse poop is found on a ranch. :) Nice one to think about and I will totally think of you when I come across a pardox. :)

English being my third language I know EXACTLY what you're talking about! I remember as child I refused eating hot dogs when I learned the word at school! That brings me back to a very funny incident. We were studying tenses and the teacher wanted us to use "park" in past continuous, now some children could not tell the difference between "p" and "b" so a girl said: "When I reached the barking lot, my father was barking"

You probably have to say this out loud to get it. Q: When is a door not a door? A: When it is ajar. Here's another one: All he left us was alone. All he left us was a loan. Quite a few times, things sound alike.

Thank you soooo much for starting that disc.!! It was just the thing i needed to giggle about.

Well, a human of course! :P LOL I agree, the English language is crazy, when we look at it this way. That's why I try not to do this, otherwise it would drive me nuts! :P LOL

How wonderfully correct you are. And how clear your comments are as I am seeing them through the confusion of my four year old daughter. "But mommy I don't understand" I get as we are going through one of her pre-school reading assignments. silent e trips her up. and what letters make what sounds. Take garbage for example. Hard g at the beginning of word. softer j sound at the end. It is easy to see how she may get confused.English has got to be one the hardest to learn to spell as well. I could go on and on..lol

amazingly correct! sometimes it makes us wonder how things are given their names... LOL.

Come to think of it, the english language is dificult! There is a hole in their window pane. It must be a pain to wander around town wondering where to buy the whole window fixture. After they're gone, I was going to go over there to to tell them how much their hole will cost them. LOL... I tried. Well I remember an Email I read a while ago. It said if a piano player is called a pianist, then why isn't a car race driver called a racist? Hehe.. Tricky.

I agree english is defintly a messed up langueage. There are defintly some weird words and pharses that seem to stem from nowhere. I guess people have just learned to live with it. As for the people who are trying to learn english, they're the real one who probablly stand this langueage.

not at all ,all the people says that chinese is the hardest.and i agree!as a chinese i even do not know the all words ,some words i do not know its meaning.however i agree english is really insteresting

I like the way you dissected these words and you are absolutely right. I have thought about this a lot of times, but more frequently in my own language. I guess a lot of languages have these strange paradoxes and sometimes even such oddities that there is no way to recall where they came up with the name. I have thought about boxing rings before, they are called basicly the same here (boks ring) and it doesn't make sence. However, a beleive a hamburger is called that way because it initially came from Hamburg or was invented by someone called that way? Same with the odd word 'sandwich', which was invented by someone who's last name was Sandwich.

hmmm...there's one thing that I've wondered since I was a child. Why is the 'u' in 'put' and 'but' pronounced differently? Like one Indian actor once said 'English is a very 'ppunny' language'!

Ooh...I'd never heard of that fruit before but it sure doesn't sound too appetizing. You're so right about the English language and when you get into our slang words and phrases it really gets funny and confusing to newcomers and foreigners. A friend of my brother's married a young woman from Russia and once they came to visit and were talking about some of the things that really "blew Olga's mind" - such as things blowing your mind! She learned to speak English pretty well in a reasonably short time but she got a huge kick out of things like "I'm at the end of my rope", "you're hanging by a thread" and other sayings that taken literally make no sense at all! I wish I could remember more examples of sayings they mentioned. What was even funnier was when she got better at English and tried to use some of these sayings herself and botched them up terribly and got some big laughs. Again, I wish I'd have written them down or recorded them at the time because the old mind is going blank right now. But, hold your pants on I'll think of more. Annie

You have way to much time my dear to go around and analyze our language which is riddled with paradoxes.. LOL!! I think that whoever first invented it thought that these names were a funny joke.LOL!! Have a nice one.