German speakers will be wondering what I was on about with "it". Actually, I was wrong. I had a beer and a half last night and got confused, which I often do when it comes to German. "It" is just "it", but everything I said about "it" applies to "this" and "that".
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21 Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn
by Larry in21 reasons why the english language is so hard to learn:.
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) since there is no time like the present, he thought it was.
time to present the present.. 8) a bass was painted on the head of the 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 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?
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21 Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn
by Larry in21 reasons why the english language is so hard to learn:.
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) since there is no time like the present, he thought it was.
time to present the present.. 8) a bass was painted on the head of the 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 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?
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myauntfanny
I just have to say (and I speak as someone struggling - rather unsuccessfully - with learning German for a year and a half now) that English is a doddle, homonyms and all, compared with German. It has 4 cases, gendered articles, separable verbs (which means the first little part of the word has to be broken off and wait till the end of the sentence, by which time you've completely forgotten it). Under certain circumstances the verb also comes at the end of the sentence, but not always, so you have to memorise exactly when. If there are two verbs, then the second verb usually comes at the end of the sentence, but sometimes the first verb comes after the second verb, again you have to memorise exactly when. Verbs involving a change of state (running, walking, arriving) take a different auxialiary than all the others in the past tense. But who stops to think about whether the action they are describing is actually a change of condition? I mean, that's pretty metaphysical, you know? Jeesh. Every time you say the word "it" you have to think about the gender of the noun you are referring to, because there are three different "its", plus you have to think about whether you are doing something to "it" or taking something from "it" etc, because there are four different ways to act on "it" and each has its own word. That's twelve different possibilities to choose from every bloody time you say "it". Gosh, I miss English.
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What other scams do people fall for?
by sleepy inwhat other scams apart from religion do people fall for?
i think a lot of so called alternative medicines could be put under the label of scam including homeopathy, crystal healing, aromatherapy and quite a few others.
spirit mediums, and astrologers are reprehensible also for taking people for a ride.
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myauntfanny
Nosferatu, I take your point, a lot of alternative medicine is ridiculously expensive and exploitive. I was just making a different point. If it doesn't work, it's not worth shit whether it's mainstream or alternative. If it does work, it doesn't matter whether it's poppyseed extract or molecularly recombined stemcell extract engineered in a space station by geniuses from Harvard (I just made that up, I don't know if it really exists - in fact it's probably scientifically impossible). And the placebo effect often works. If people believe that they can cure piles by stuffing peat moss up their ass, then maybe that will work for them better than hemorroid cream. Something from the tone of your post tells me that wouldn't work for you, but I may be wrong. None of that stuff works for me but neither do mainstream medicines because I don't believe in them either. I guess if I ever really get sick, I'm screwed.
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Bus Driver Killed Girl Who Refused Him Sex
by Country Girl inbus driver killed girl who refused him sex .
by richard savill .
(filed: 03/08/2004)
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myauntfanny
Country Girl
Gavin de Becker's book The Gift of Fear has lots of good advice too.
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What other scams do people fall for?
by sleepy inwhat other scams apart from religion do people fall for?
i think a lot of so called alternative medicines could be put under the label of scam including homeopathy, crystal healing, aromatherapy and quite a few others.
spirit mediums, and astrologers are reprehensible also for taking people for a ride.
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myauntfanny
Natural remedies are probably just a placebo effect, BUT they have done research showing that the placebo effect is really powerful. So why not? Who cares, if it gets you well? You don't think the pharmaceutical companies aren't making billions off medicines that don't have a very high cure rate?
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Lance Armstrong stripped of 6th Tour de France title
by confusedjw inlance armstrong has just been stripped of his 6th tour de france title after three substances, banned by the french, were found in his hotel room.. .
toothpaste.
deodorant.
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myauntfanny
You're worried about bikerchic? What about frenchbabyface? She's gonna have you for petite dejeuner.
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A Question for Anyone to Answer- thanks
by JT indo you think we will ever see the day the wt does this?.
forgive us our trespasses.
joseph tkach.
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myauntfanny
It is beautiful, very moving. I don't think this can ever happen for JWs because I believe that they really are a book publishing corporation, at the top. But if they did do this, I would change my mind about that. Obviously.
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Vaccination has never saved a human life. It does not prevent smallpox.
by Pole ini recently found some quotes from wt literature concerning vaccination (mostly golden age).
sorry if it sounds like reinventing the wheel to you.... .
anyway, it's interesting to know them, because this crap can't be reasoned away ewith the new light doctrine.
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myauntfanny
You know, I grew up in the sixties as a JW and I was vaccinated and I don't remember a single word against it from the platform, or that my mother had any conflicts. When did it change?
There is some dreadful stuff that goes into vaccines, I don't know about monkey brains, but they used to put mercury in, apparently, and still put in formaldehyde. I worried and worried about vaccinating my daughter because I heard such stories. I did it anyway though.
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Bus Driver Killed Girl Who Refused Him Sex
by Country Girl inbus driver killed girl who refused him sex .
by richard savill .
(filed: 03/08/2004)
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myauntfanny
Oh, it's really sad. I'm trying to figure out what lesson we can learn from this about keeping our own daughters safer. I guess, if you think the bus driver is wierd, forget about getting where you're going and always get off the bus with the last person left besides you? But then what if it's a rotten neighborhood? Or the countryside?
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do you ever?????
by Lehaa indo you ever get used to bumping into witnesses that you know.. i still go out in with the thought of it tin the back of my mind.
i hate the death stares i get.
i feel like walking uo to them and saying "i'm not the devil or a murderer, just no longer a witness".
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myauntfanny
It's really terrible, but I realised years ago that by excluding everyone who doesn't believe like them, they're really only excluding themselves. When I was on the inside and then left, I felt like the outsider for a long time. But then I realised they are the outsiders. It's just a change of perspective, but sometimes that helps.