Don't you think English is a very funny and confusing language?

*S* American English is a confusing language. That is why I don't get too irritated with those who do not use it as their first language. Heck, it gets confusing to me sometimes, and it is the only language I know. I worked with 2 Korean women in my job. It was kind of fun to help them understand the different forms of a word or, that one word can be pronounced more than one way and mean different things. For me it was fun because every time they asked me about a word, what it meant and how to say it correctly, I got to learn the same word in their language.

some one can say that English is a funny and confusing language, some one can say its not. according to my knowledge English is the most easiest language that i know. i am speaking Sinhalese,Hindi,Chinese,Russian and English languages. the most easiest language is English within the languages i mentioned above. every language has funny and confusing things, including English..

I love English language a lot. As it is not my mother-tounge, I may not be very good in it like you guys, still i find this language very sweet and nice from childhood. Infact, after my mother-language, Bengali, I like this language most. I don't find it very confusing. There is no such language which won't be consider as a bit confusing to those who don't use it often. If you practise it, you'll find it's sweetness. In my point of view, English is the simplest language on earth, that is why most of people from all over the world uses it and it is so popular.

well, in our country, English had been taught really well and thorough. i mean, we really ridicule students who don't speak english well. english is every important. whether it is funny or not... it is still important. sometimes, i get confused with homonyms / homophones: sale - sail tale - tail male - mail they - day buy - by thought - taught etc...

it is really funny..!! just like this... if electricity comes from electrons, does morality comes from morons?

Well, to people from a different countries where English is not the primary language, people do feel that it is funny. So is the case with people who learn English all their lives, feel that other languages are funny. It's just the familiarity that matters. Once you are familiar with any language, it doesn't feel funny or complicated. You talk about English, people used to laugh when I spoke French. They used to think that it sounds funny. But, it's one of the most royal languages I have had the opportunity to learn. So we cannot really blame the language. bourne

Yes, I think that English is a funny language but for some learners of it might find it rather confusing. One sheep, two sheep, one mouse, three mice and so on is a funny rule to learn. One friend of mine still says 'you is' rather than 'you are' and she is a native speaker of the language. I was a children's nanny in Finland and the oldest daughter was learning English. I told her she could say 'I like this very much' or 'I like this book quite a lot'. She couldn't say 'I like this book quite much'. She could write 'I walked along a shore' or 'I was sure that I packed my pencil case in my bag' but she had to get the spelling right. I heard that by comparison French has le, la, les and les meaning the one is m, one is f, one is plural and one doesn't want to clash with a vowel. I think that is lovely. English spellings are strange. 'what' is really wot and it is not as easy as a word like 'cat' for children learning spelling at four years old.

It's really funny and confusing at times. But that just means it is a growing and a flexible language. English is very dynamic in which changes are constant and always accepted. It's very open to change. It's the universal language shared by several groups of people in the globe. It just serves its purpose that way.

I took four years of latin and I grew up with english as an American, so the Romance languages are easy for me to read and usually understand. I found German difficult to read because of all the extra letters thrown in, though I can understand a lot of the spoken word if spoken slowly. I also have a lot of trouble with hebrew. I read it and pronouce it just fine, I just cannot hang onto the vocabulary because there is nothing to compare it to like the other languages. If you think english is hard now, you should try reading Old English. I read Chaucer in Old English. It was a hoot!

rajeshfgh hi oh yes our english is funny and yet it is used asour offical language here in the US and through a lot of countries so it must have something going for it besides the oddities we c an all come up.Yet its a lot easier than German which was the other language our forefathers had thought of in regards to the language of our United States. I still' much prefer our funny language to a whole slew of others that are hard for a lot of american people to learn. So yes I love our funny language amereican english.

ROFL....I think the English language is annoying to say the least. There are all these rules, the only real rule is there are no rules, they can change at anytime. For instance, i before e except after c unless of course the word is: beige feint feisty foreign forfeit heifer height heir heist neighbor reign rein seismometer their veil vein weigh (weight) Then the rules change. Like I said, it's annoying.

I don't think it's funny language,but it's a very useful language,i am learning the english now,i want to improve my english,i am searching the method of studying,if you have any good suggestion to me and i am very pleasure.Maybe when i understand a litte of english i will discover the funny.

Really confusing language. But the sound is far more confusing. I prefer to write in English than speaking it. I don't know why it happened. Funny? I don't think so. I find it annoying than funny. But English is an international language, the language of business and entertainment. So I have to learn it even I find it difficult.

I think that English language is beautiful. I love it. It's not difficult to learn. I'm not confused either just a matter of accepting it.

I think that English is a very free language. A lot of words are incorporated into the English Language.

It is very confusing - I am so glad it is my first language. Two points come to mind one that I found elsewhere on the internet recently. If con means against and pro means for, does that mean Congress in against progress? Americans just don't seem to understand that there even exists a difference between your and you're. One admin at a traffic exchange has been told that they both exist but still uses the wrong one at the wrong time!! Thanks for this discussion. I will check back and see what other people have come up with. There are so many. I must admit I often put the wrong their or there and have to alter it afterwards!

let's face it, english is a crazy language. here's more to that and let me know how crazier it is? 1. is there egg in eggplant? 2. how about ham in hamburger? 3. neither apple nor pine in pineapple. 4. english muffins weren't invented in england nor french fries in france. we take english for granted, but if we explores its pradoxes, we find that 5. quicksand can work slowly. 6. boxing rings are square. 7. guinea pig is neither from guinea nor it is a pig. and why is it that writers write and fingers don't fing and hammers don't ham? if teachers taught, then why preachers didn't praught? in what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital, have noses that run and feet that smell? english was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which of course, is not a race at all. so go figure it out? naaahh, i don't know, i just have too much english this time and that just confuses me more.

I agree, and is the plural of Moose, Meese, or do we say it like Buffalo?

I think English is very confusing but more I use it often and it became easier for me. It is more difficult for deaf people to use it because they use America Sign Language as their own language. So, they struggle to balance English and A.S.L. In the fact, some deaf people successfully write very well because they finally found a balance between two languages like other foreign people did. I really enjoy writing in English because it helped me to get in college and communicate with people effectively. If anyone struggle with it, nobody should give up and keep up and learn everyday even if it is the most difficult.

i totally agree with you english is very funny and confusing language the pronouncation itseld is vey confusing every word has double meaning to it. then also it is world language and we should respect it.