The most not fun sentence in English for folks learning English 😀

[malaise]

English is a difficult language…but it can be understood through tough, thorough, thought though!😀
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[Goonch]

1. ;-{).......

[Goonch]

2. ;-{) I borrowed one of your hearts🤣

[malaise]

4. Hehehehe

All yours😀

[malaise]

3. Nicely played

😀

[eppur_se_muova]

5. "Buffalo" is the name of a ruminant mammal and a city in NY state. It can also mean "to bully, obstruct".

So this is a perfectly grammatical, logically meaningful sentence:

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

[malaise]

6. ROFL

😀😀

[TheRickles]

8. Some punctuation might help. :-)

Reminds me of "It is true for all that, that that that that that that refers to, is not the one to which I refer."

[malthaussen]

11. Ain't that the truth. n/t

[malthaussen]

9. That's the sentence I'd like to drag my seventh-grade teacher to and say...

... "Diagram this, Lady."

-- Mal

[twodogsbarking]

10. I have coarse and fine sea salt. After skipping on the coarse I thought to myself "fine is fine".

Then I thought how messed up English can be.

[malaise]

14. LOL

and why is it two geese but not two meese? I know no logical reason for this.😀

[twodogsbarking]

17. Ah but goose has yet another meaning. If you get goosed more than once is it geesed?

I wish I knew Spanish.

[malaise]

18. Love it

😀

[paleotn]

12. That letter is silent until I sez it aint!

Add heteronyms like lead and lead and it's a West Germanic / French / Norse mess. And we though Mandarin Chinese was tough....which it is.

[Igel]

13. Perhaps learning to read English.

I've always liked garden-path sentenced.

The horse raced around the barn fell down.

Or multiple subordinated clauses: The dog the kid the mother saw fed barked. (Lots don't like that kind of subordination--they can handle 1 layer, "The dog the kid fed barked" but lose the thread with the 2nd level.)

Once was reading something in German and I just couldn't get a sentence to cohere. Took it to a native speaker. She read it. Read the paragraph it was in. Read the sentence again. Read the sentence again. Out loud. Then again, with different pauses. Finally got it to click. It was the three verbs at the end and unpacking the structure(s) embedded before them that threw her/me/us. Formal, academic German.

(Russian can pull off some doozies, either because of the syntax that's there or the widespread variety of elliptical devices and zero-copula. English-learners also don't like things like pseudogapping, esp. if their verbal morphology involves suffixes: "They have been eating the apples more than they have the oranges" (ex. from Wiki). Last thing I read about ellipsis was Marjorie McShane's diss, but that's been more than 20 years ago.)

[Kid Berwyn]

15. Spelled "ghoti" sounds exactly like "fish."

How can "ghoti" and "fish" sound the same?

gh = f as in rouGH
o = i as in wOmen
ti = sh as in naTIon

https://www.englishclub.com/esl-articles/199909.php

[malaise]

16. Haha

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