19 English Language Posts That Are Straight Up Infuriating

Tilesh Bo December 31, 2020

Let's just get this out of the way: English is a terrible language that makes no g*ddamn sense. If you're currently trying to learn it, then all we can say is, godspeed to you and we hope that these memes will help to make you feel a little more understood in the struggle.

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Text - alexbbypls: break-itbrian: if you ever think English is not a shit language just remember that read and lead rhyme and read and lead rhyme, but read and lead don't rhyme, and neither do read and lead. This post fucked me up.

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Text - ofools not gonna say it again!!!! a BOG is a wetland that is acidic a FEN is a wetland that is alkaline vampireapologist FINALLY someone said it!!!!!! quasi-normalcy a SWAMP is a wetland whose vegetation consists of trees or other woody plants a MARSH is a wetland with other forms of vegetation lesbianshepard #A LITTLE LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

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Text - Matthew Anderson Follow @MattAndersonBBC Things native English speakers know, but don't know we know: adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion- size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you'll sound like a maniac. It's an odd thing that every English speaker uses that list, but almost none of us could write it out. A

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Text - 8 pjo-superwholock-potterhead itsvondell you can take one man's trash to another man's treasure but you can't make it drink runtime-error Fun fact: the blending of idioms or cliches is called a malaphor. My personal favorite is "We'll burn that bridge when we get to it." chromalogue I'm rather fond of "It's not rocket surgery" and "not the sharpest egg in the attic," but my all- time favourite is, "...until the cows freeze over." bowtochris You've opened this can of worms, now lie in it,

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Facial expression - FRENCH ITALIAN Singolare: il, lo, la, l' Plurale: i, gli, le Singulier: le, la, l' Pluriel: les GERMAN ENGLISH Nominativ der, die, das, die Akkusativ den, die, das, die Dativ Genitiv THE dem, der, dem, den des, der, des, der

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Text - buttlicked You're bad at grammar? *pats u on shoulder* their, they're, there. kissmycatastrophe I JUST SPIT MY CEREAL ALL OVER MY COMPUTER

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Food - february 28 @badgalzak just made me some synonym rolls zander @finah just like grammar used to make

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Text - killerkitty707 "Yoink" is the opposite of "Yeet" wierdrocks But it's just as fast viewtiful-kim The Lord yeeteth and the Lord yoinketh away 213,728 notes

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Yellow - RESPECT ARE-COUNTRY SPEAK ENGLİSH

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Text - David Burge @iowahawkblog Yes, English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though. Traducir del inglés 1/5/15 17:55 6.635 RETWEETS 5.029 FAVORITOS Take That, Vaccines! @TakeThatSalk - 6m Hey @TekThatEnglish

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Text - Teen Facts :] added a new photo. LIKE if you can raed tihs whit no porlqebm baecuas yuor jsut taht sarmt. :) Like Comment Share 4,927 61 D 65 42 minutes ago * yro'ue*

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Text - direcartographies: fun fact: the reason that the plural of goose is but the plural of moose is not meese is geese because goose derives from an ancient germanic word undergoing strong declension, in the pattern of foot/feet and tooth/teeth, wherein oo is mutated to ee. however 'moose' is a native american word added to the english lexicon only ~400 years ago, and lacks the etymological reason to be pluralized in that way. Oh baby. Keep talking dirty to me.

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Text - notquiteapolyglot To people who use "þ" as an aesthetic "p" þink again. tharook getting thorny in the linguistics fandom tkdancer þorny* solarine That also goes for using ß as an aesthetic B. On my old server, there was a character named Billyßadass. This never failed to make me laugh, because that letter is not pronounced like B. It is a sharp S. That guy named himself SsillySsadass. Source: notquiteapolyglot 77,455 notes

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Text - my english inside my head my english when im talking

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Land lot - GROJ SALE

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Text - wuyien taesmiine Source: egberts egberts: wordsmythologic: egberts: im really pissed that palindrome isnt palindrome backwards Ah, yes but emordnilap is a word! An emornilap is any word that, when spelled backwards, produces another word. Examples of emordnilap pairs include: o desserts & stressed • drawer & reward • gateman & nametag o time & emit o laced & decal o regal & lager And therefore "emordnilap palindrome" is an emordnilap palindrome. Which I, for one, think is really frickin'

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Text - (muffled tooting) @jimpjorps Follow the good news: we finally have solid confirmation on how "gif" is pronounced the bad news: the Old English word gif'if (pronounced "yiff") LIKES RETWEETS 476 433 12:31 PM - 20 Apr 2016 27 proudblackconservative No. ace-pervert yes princewonderland YES yourownpetard This is the language equivalent of King Solomon suggesting cutting the baby in half.

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Text - Black Jesus Follow @BullHunitProof "c-Jah" (noun) - that shit when you shake Jay Murphh > ( Recent (18) Messenger Shit got shut down not too long ago bro Ohh why what happen.? Somebody have a c-Jah Had I don't know to spell bro but it's that shit when you shake Imfao

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Text - childish sadbino @datassque i love brazilians they be speakin porch of geese and I be like 80808 damn baby quack quack 8/2/17, 10:15 PM

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