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Message board > I don´t speak Spanish. Sorry!!!!!!
I don´t speak Spanish. Sorry!!!!!!
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eng789
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I don´t speak Spanish. Sorry!!!!!!
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Is it my imagination or is there a lot of Spanish showing up in wss , on the forum and in ws descriptions. I thought this was an ENGLISH site. |
2 Feb 2009
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alien boy
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Hey, it may even be Portuguese!!!!!
All the same... it�s all Greek to me....
"Graecum est; non legitur", to be a little more classical.
Or is it "Double Dutch"?
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2 Feb 2009
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eng789
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Double Dutch is "skipping" with 2 ropes. Did you know that?
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2 Feb 2009
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eng789
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I hinktay hattay tiay siay otnay icenay otay peaksay niay anguageslay hattay theroay eoplepay oday nderstanduay. |
2 Feb 2009
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alien boy
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Apparently that is noted as a traditional game of England, Scotland & Ireland in a book published in the 1890�s.
Did you know a Dutchman actually wrote a retort about �Double English� being worse than �Double Dutch�. The complete poem lists 800 of the �most notorious irregularities of English orthography�?
It�s called De Chaos. Here�s the opening stanza:
Dearest creature in creation
Studying English pronunciation,
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.
I will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy;
Tear in eye, your dress you�ll tear;
Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.
Pray, console your loving poet,
Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!
Just compare heart, hear and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word.
So much for incomprehensible language!
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2 Feb 2009
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alien boy
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& there�s definitely something rotten in the state of Denmark... my last post turned up before my first!
Maybe the ghost of Cheezels is haunting me...
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2 Feb 2009
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eng789
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Doesn�t anyone speak pig-latin????????? It�s only been 5o + - years but I think I got it right. |
2 Feb 2009
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happy koala
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Good afternoon eng 789,
I think that as an English teacher o language professional it�d be very easy for you to find out if the language used in some pages is Spanish or Portuguese. Perhaps the person who is sharing his/her worksheet prepared that material for her/his classes and no to get points and that�s the reason why in some worksheet there are some Spanish or Portuguese material.
Please, let�s try no to be rude. We are here to share material and no to criticise. We try to do our best and if you consider you don�t need o understand any material it�s as esay as not download it.
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2 Feb 2009
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Ivona
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Question for AB. You know that crazy poem about irregular plural?
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2 Feb 2009
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freddie
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I=lay am=lay uent=flay in=lay ig=pay atin=lay!
We used it as kids to talk about secret and dangerous matters in front of parents and teachers. It was absolutely fantastic as we became so fast at it that even those who knew pig latin couldn`t understand us. |
2 Feb 2009
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