tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492604986228941982.post8084488324039620595..comments2023-07-20T08:12:57.724-04:00Comments on The Adventures of Orangeboy And His Antagonists!: The wierdness of English - or weirdnessChinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13549840587938665855noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492604986228941982.post-31597706735469357962009-04-02T13:01:00.000-04:002009-04-02T13:01:00.000-04:00"The French like to put extra letters at the end o..."The French like to put extra letters at the end of words to make them look fancy, but they don't pronounce all those letters."<BR/><BR/>OMG - LOVE IT LOVE IT. I don't care if it's true or not..... the lengths we go.....ALBJ2YOhttp://notjustlabeled.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492604986228941982.post-61301632285578317252009-03-31T19:46:00.000-04:002009-03-31T19:46:00.000-04:00You're right, Quirky Mom. Pixiemama, I lost in a ...You're right, Quirky Mom. <BR/>Pixiemama, I lost in a spelling bee in 2nd grade because my word was field (feild?). I became third runner up.<BR/>And today the kids learned about Fur-good Marshall!Chinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13549840587938665855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492604986228941982.post-60868507526491158812009-03-31T16:27:00.000-04:002009-03-31T16:27:00.000-04:00Foster is also very English-rule bound. To a fault...Foster is also very English-rule bound. To a fault. I feel sorry for his teachers and aides. (*snicker, well, maybe some of them anyway!)<BR/><BR/>And I mess up the ie/ei thing all the time. Thier? Anyone?pixiemamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15343744406666443879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3492604986228941982.post-32788541279696180112009-03-31T11:18:00.000-04:002009-03-31T11:18:00.000-04:00I really embraced foreign languages when I got to ...I really embraced foreign languages when I got to study them. I enjoyed learning all the other rules, especially in languages with fewer exceptions than English. English really is a bitch of a language.Quirky Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13486739791011081198noreply@blogger.com