The English Thread

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וואס איז דער אידישער נאמען פון די שפראך ?
I just met Shimmy's rebbe
He said gevaldige things about him
A real nachas to hear
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Just coming from Mincha
In a side room I saw 2 Chushuve Bachurim real shteigers
learning Beer Mayim Chaim in English
It was a Nachas listening to their Shtels

טשולענט..

So you think it"s geshmak

1705

[msp]

it is mamash moiredik!

[ידיד]

טשולענט איז אויך נישט אלעמאל געשמאק..

[msp]

it depends who prepares and cooks it......

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[url=http://www.communitym.com/article.asp?article_id=103254&article_type=0]BACTERIA AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES
By: Rabbi Zamir Cohen
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[msp]

it should really not amaze us the vast knowledge of chazal

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I did not post this to report news
Just to point to a fascinating piece of writing
at least as interesting as some of the links
in another thread
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We know that the Gra took his vast knowledge of natural science from Torah
Was the same true for the Chazon Ish in medicine or was it plain Siyata d"shmaya
?

[msp]

i think that the chazoin ish had daas toireh on all subjects

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best I have seen so far

[לכתחילה אריבער]

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best I have seen so far

Agree!!

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קרעדיט אנאנימוס!

IF PRO AND CON ARE OPPOSITES, IS CONGRESS THE OPPOSITE OF PROGRESS?"

English is the most widely used language in the history of our planet. One in every seven human
beings can speak it. More than half of the world's books and three-quarters of international mail are
in English. Of all languages, English has the largest vocabulary - perhaps as many as TWO
MILLION words - and one of the noblest bodies of literature.

Nonetheless, let's face it: English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, neither pine nor
apple in pineapple and no ham in a hamburger. English muffins weren't invented in England or
french fries in France. Sweetmeats are candy, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But when we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work
slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither a pig nor from Guinea.

And why is it that a writer writes, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, humdingers don't hum
and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn't the plural of booth be beeth? One
goose, two geese - so one moose, two meese? One index, two indices - one Kleenex, two
Kleenices?

Doesn't it seem loopy that you can make amends but not just one amend, that you comb through the
annals of history but not just one anal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and you get rid of all
but one, what do you call it?

If the teacher taught, why isn't it true that the preacher praught? If a horsehair mat is made from the
hair of horses and a camel's-hair coat from the hair of camels, from what is a mohair coat made? If
a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you also
bote your tongue?

Sometimes I wonder if all English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally
insane. In what other language do people drive on a parkway and park in a driveway? Recite at a
play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that
smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are
opposites? How can OVERLOOK and OVERSEE be opposites, while QUITE A LOT and QUITE
A FEW are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the next?
And where are the people who ARE spring chickens or who actually WOULD hurt a fly? I meet
individuals who CAN cut the mustard, but I cannot talk about them in English.

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns
down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which your alarm clock goes off by going
on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race
(which, of course, isn't really a race at all). That is why, when stars are out they are visible, but
when the lights are out they are invisible. Any why, when I wind up my watch I start it, but when I
wind up this essay I end it.

[msp]

There is a difference between brethren and brothers,
brothers are born to the same parents
but brethren belong to the same religious group

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There is a difference between brethren and brothers,
brothers are born to the same parents
but brethren belong to the same religious group

maybe in today's usage
originally it was biological

[msp]

you are right
see there:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brethren

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bilingual labeling
but isn't there an extra A in the lower label

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revach.net

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[msp]

Another expression is : he knows his onions

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is that the UK version ? I don't remember hearing it

[msp]

i think so

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Reminds me of the story about this couple who were arguing whether it's about to rain, when the husband suggested they go and ask their Commie neighbour, Rudolf. In reply to his wife's question 'Why him?' he replied, 'Rudolf the red, knows rain, dear.' I

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This reminds of a Reb Follman who was approached by the founders of Bais Yaakov in NYC to send his daughter to the new school
He refused to go along with new fangled ideas of teaching girls Torah
He changed his mind towards the end of Decemebr when his little girl came home singing Xmas songs
those who dont uderstand see this

[msp]

a very telling story

[scy4851]

An English professor wrote the words:
" A woman without her man is nothing"
on the chalkboard and asked his students to punctuate it correctly.

All of the males in the class wrote:
"A woman without her man , is nothing . "

All the females in the class wrote:
"A woman : without her , man is nothing . "