English!

[Bahamut]

FUCK YEAH MOTHERFUCKER!!

http://9gag.com/gag/ay5Q4oW?ref=fbp

[FiSH]

there are 7 ways to pronounce "ough."
1. though (like o in go)
2. through (like oo in too)
3. cough (like off in offer)
4. rough (like uff in suffer)
5. plough (like ow in flower)
6. ought (like aw in saw)
7. borough (like a in above)
furthermore, a case can be made for 8 different pronunciations (speaking of which, you take the verb "pronounce" and the noun becomes pronunciation"...)

finally, from george carlin:
why do we drive on parkways and park in driveways?

[Forestradio]

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[Wise Windu]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_bu ... lo_buffalo

Buffalo...

[Bahamut]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

Buffalo...

holly shit, did u see the reference in that article to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_whil ... he_teacher

What... the...

[Torpid]

I get the buffalo thing, but the had had "had had" not so much. Nonetheless, awesome thread guys

[Bahamut]

I get the buffalo thing, but the had had "had had" not so much. Nonetheless, awesome thread guys

James, while John had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher

You need background to understand it:
"The example refers to two students, James and John, who are required by an English test to describe a man who, in the past, had suffered from a cold. John writes "The man had a cold" which the teacher marks as being incorrect, while James writes the correct "The man had had a cold." Since James' answer was right, it had had a better effect on the teacher."

Jhon has "had"
James has "had had"

"had had" and "had" are objects (if you really need a different referent, think of this two as dow2 skills). Now, "had had" worked better on the teacher than had

Remember also that commas also work as parenthesis and they correct way to use them is to make things able to switch the position of the sentence at any point left or right of the comma. So
James, while John had had "had", had had "had had" can be translated to

James (while John had had "had") had had "had had" and then to

James had had "had had" while John had had "had" or

while John had had "had" James had had "had had"

[Torpid]

Oh, I get it now, thanks. How lulzy.

[Tex]

I've always felt that English is such a messed up fucking language...

lol

[Nuclear Arbitor]

well good thing you're canadian then; you don't have to speak it.

[Orkfaeller]

-eh

[Kvek]

unless he's an asmon-canadian he has to ?:P

[Flash]

Isn't Canada dual lingual? English and French? With Quebec being Frenchy?

[Lulgrim]

I hear Quebec is kind of like this

[Nurland]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WULsZJxPfws

[BaptismByLoli]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WULsZJxPfws

Seems legit