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English as a second language
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 9:18 pm
by les
As english is my first language
i sometims fail to appreciate
those who it is not
For those who have trouble use
Thesaurus.com | Find Synonyms and Antonyms of Words at Thesaurus.com
This does not give definitions but perhaps simpler words that you may better understand
i use it for the reverse effect
les
Re: English as a second language
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 9:39 pm
by dix
lesub wrote:
As english is my first language
i sometims fail
O rly...
Dix.
Re: English as a second language
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 9:41 pm
by les
Dix
creative editing
les
Re: English as a second language
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 11:39 pm
by slave alexander
you can do translate in google chrome too
Re: English as a second language
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 12:30 am
by Evals
dix wrote:lesub wrote:
As english is my first language
i sometims fail
O rly...
Dix.
I no rite!
Re: English as a second language
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 6:37 am
by dix
lesub wrote:Dix
creative editing
les
Creative cropping perhaps, but there's no editing of the original text.
Dix.
Re: English as a second language
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 3:09 pm
by les
Thought you may enjoy these play on words
LEXOPHILES (LOVERS OF WORDS):-
1. A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.
2. A will is a dead give away.
3. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
4. A backward poet writes inverse.
5. A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.
6. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
7. The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.
8. You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
9. He broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
10. A calendar's days are numbered.
11. A boiled egg is hard to beat.
12. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
13. The short fortune teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.
14. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
15. When you've seen one shopping centre you've seen a mall.
16. If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine .
17. When she saw her first strands of grey hair, she thought she'd dye.
18. Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
19. Acupuncture: a jab well done.
20. Marathon runners with bad shoes suffer the agony of de feet.
21. The roundest knight at king Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
22. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian .
23. She was only a whisky maker, but he loved her still.
24. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of maths disruption.
25. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
26. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
27. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
28. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
29. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
30. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
31. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab centre said: 'Keep off the Grass.'
32. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, 'No change yet.'
33. The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
34. Don't join dangerous cults: practice safe sects.
les