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Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England nor French fries in France . Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

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Transcribed from Tumblr. Each change in  indentation represents another commenter.

 

If you bite it and you die, it's poisonous.

 

If it bites you and you die, it's venomous.

 

     What if it bites me, and it dies?

 

         that means you're poisonous. jesus christ, nate, learn to read

 

               What if it bites itself, and I die

 

                    It's voodoo.

 

              What if it bites me and someone else dies?

 

          That's correlation, not causation.

 

     what if we bite each other and neither of us dies

 

that's kinky

 

     oh my god

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