Hello - english language problem

I am from germany and - unfortunately - I do not belong anymore to the group of young guys. So I am not familiar with some modern expressions which violate - for my opinion - the english language, like: plz (please), coze (because), u r (you are),
4 u (for you),..... just to mention some of it.

I think if somebody enters the forum with a question and expects an answer - perhaps from an "old" engineer like me - in his own interest he should try to make himself understandable also for forum members beyond 60.
Thank you.

LvW said:

... like: plz (please), coze (because), u r (you are),
4 u (for you),..... just to mention some of it.

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my opinion is that SMS is not a language, it is purely LAZINESS to use it here in a written forum. It should not be allowed in the first place here. No 160 character limit to squeeze in here required.

Cheers

I thinks you communicate just fine,so no problem in your language and U are not the only one with English language problem

Hi,

There are many forums that help u to learn English. Join one of them. Post ur grammatical questions there. www.usingenglish.com is one of them. U can even listen to British Council podcast to learn the pronunciation of each words.

Regards,
Anish

Why English Is So Difficult

This is so Hilarious :lol:

Why English Is So Difficult

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes;
but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes.
One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
yet the plural of moose should never be meese.

You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice;
yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?

If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet,
and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?

If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that, and three would be those,
yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
and the plural of cat is cats, not cose.

We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
but though we say mother we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
but imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim.
Anonymous

Some reasons to be grateful if you grew up speaking English;

1. The bandage was wound around the wound.
2. The farm was used to produce produce.
3. The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4. We must polish the Polish furniture.
5. He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7. There is no time like the present, he said it was time to present the present.
8. At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of a bass drum.
9. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10. I did not object to the object.
11. The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12. There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13. They were too close to the door to close it.
14. The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15. A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17. The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18. After a number of Novocain injections, my jaw got number.
19. Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
22. I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt.

Let's face it - English is a crazy language.

There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine In pineapple.

English muffins weren't invented in England.

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand
can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor
is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and
hammers don't ham?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?

If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you
call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

In what language do people 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 wiseguy are
opposites?

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 an alarm
goes off by going on.

If Dad is Pop, how come! Mom isn't Mop?

GO FIGURE! That's American English. :lol:

Regards
bassa

THANK YOU! IT'S GREAT!

LvW

you can use this site for improving ur english.
www.ohysoft.com

ITgirl,

I think your english is good. As long as the idea of what you are typing is clear you can able to communicate in this forum. Even I, is not very good in english.

Even in programming you can understand that
JMP is jumping from one instruction to another.

Am i correct?

So that, don't worry about english. There are many countries in the world not focusing on english language but rather on their own language. Still they are leading country.

So cheer up.

macer