(Hman kuma kan training laiin class-ah hei hi min chhiartir a, ka lo chhiarliam mai mai a. Hmanni lawk khan mail ah ka dawng leh nawlh mai a, in lo hlimpui ve beiseiin ka rawn post a ni. A hlui angreng tawh a, chhiar tawh kan awm a nih pawhin lo chhiarnawn ve leh teh u).
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 or 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?
If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
PS. – Why doesn’t ‘Buick’ rhyme with ‘quick’ ?
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is ‘UP.’
It’s easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP?
Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?
We call UP our friends.
And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen.
We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.
At other times the little word has real special meaning..
People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.
To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.
We seem to be pretty mixed
UP about UP!To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary.
In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions.
If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used.
It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don’t give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP.
When the sun comes out we say it is clearingUP.
When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.
When it doesn’t rain for awhile, things dry UP.
One could go on and on, but I’ll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so……..it is time to shut UP!
Now it’s UP to you what you do with this post.
You think French is difficult?
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.
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) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear..
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
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May 29th, 2012 at 2:28 am
Good post.
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May 29th, 2012 at 3:08 am
Hrethiam tan chuan thawnthu ngaihnawm tak a nih dawn hi, tih rilru púin,
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May 29th, 2012 at 3:17 am
Khai, a va chhuak zingggg ve…:)
ti ringawt mai teh ang. 
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May 29th, 2012 at 3:30 am
Pua; pu; zawn; kawt; chhipchhuan; ak; phur; kokichhuan; pai = CARRY.
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May 29th, 2012 at 3:41 am
Be patient to see the patient!
Thil ka hriatchhuah zawk chu…kan school kal lai kan thianpa thiam lo lutuk kha…2nd term Science subj ah question alo kal a…
Q. What is a Compound?
Ans. A Compound is a compound. Eg. School compound. !! An thai sen chiang asin.
(true story)
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May 29th, 2012 at 3:48 am
English pawh hi a hausak bik lohzia tarlanna nih hmel. English word tam tak hi Wikipedia atang te hian han en ila Latin/Greek tih vel atanga compose hi alo tam ve khawp mai
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May 29th, 2012 at 3:51 am
Et cetera te pawh Latin tawng a ni lo’m ni? English ho khu an fing phakar reuh a.
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May 29th, 2012 at 6:04 am
Write=Ziak, Writer=Ziaktu. Cook=Chhum, Cooker=Chhumtu
Peacock=Arawn, Pea=Ar, Cock=Awn 
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May 29th, 2012 at 6:10 am
Mizotawng pawh a ni ve tho alawm. “Ka ek a chhuak” kan ti a, a chhuak lo-kan la pai reng a. “Ka riltam”-kan pumpui a tam zawk a ni reng si a.
“Ka mut a chhuak” kan ti leh a, kan mut kha chhuak ta daih se la; mut kan tum awm si lo. Kan mut a lut zawk a ni. “Hriselna” kan ti teh fova, “hri” chu thihna a ni a; “sel” chu sawichhia/elrel tihna asin. “Hriselna” avangin, kan dam tha vung a, kan vawkpui thau tak hlup hlup hi.
Hetiang style a ka thuziak, ka phawrh chhuah ngam loh; ka hriat theih theih ka rawn type mai mai.
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May 29th, 2012 at 6:14 am
Good post
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May 29th, 2012 at 6:37 am
#9
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May 29th, 2012 at 9:43 am
Inrin loh laiin a lo chhuak thut a nih hi mawle
English mai ni lo, tawng dang dang pawh hi chhui neuh neuh se chuan hetiang hi a tam viau ang mawle.
@lr hlawnchhing: i thuziah chu han phawrhchhuak la ka van ti em. A dangdai dawn tlat.
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May 29th, 2012 at 11:08 am
Hahaha Tha mai mai ve le
tren tren
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May 29th, 2012 at 11:14 am
@bbney, mi an chuk hrep dah ang tih ka hlau, phawrh hunte pawh a la awm mahna
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May 29th, 2012 at 1:33 pm
English hi pawngpaw hlauh ngawt tur a ni lo tih hi kan hriat a tha. A hlau lo apiang hian an thiam chak zawk lehnghal a. Kan pianpui tawng a ni lo tih hriain a lo tawng dik lo te pawh hi nuihzat lo thin ila. “In God we trust” tih tura “In trust we God” ti ta tlat thin te pawh hian an pawisak loh em hi. Hei erawh hria ila: A dik lo tih hre reng chunga zir thiam ve tum miah loh erawh a fuh bik lova, theih ang tawka zir ve erawh tum zel ila.
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May 29th, 2012 at 1:45 pm
English heti taka khawvela tawng lar leh hman tlanglawn alo nihna chhan hi chu a flexible (her rem or pawh fan theih) vang liau liau a ni kan ti thei ang. Hnamtin hian mahni pianpui tawng mil zelin ‘English’ kan hmanga, chu chu saptawng dictionary ah an lo lalut a ni maia, tawng dang aiin a hausa telh telh mai chu a nih hi. Paradoxes leh asymmetries te chu a awm lo thei loa, a hmangtu an tam poh leh word variety pawh a pung telh telh ang.
PS: mizo tawng pawh hi a flexible ve sawt khawp mai.
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May 29th, 2012 at 2:03 pm
15 & 16
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May 29th, 2012 at 2:20 pm
Tha reuh ve aw!
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May 29th, 2012 at 3:31 pm
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May 29th, 2012 at 4:04 pm
Nice post! Comment #9 reply na ni pahin,’Why do we feel hungry’?
https://www.thegeminigeek.com/w.....el-hungry/
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