Friday 16 December 2011

Keanehan bahasa inggeris

Sesuatu yang menarik berkenaan bahasa inggeris. Ianya juga berlaku pada bahasa-bahasa lain juga. Cuba perhatikan keanehan dan boleh melucukan apabila kita memerhatikan perubahan-perubahan pada bahsa ni.

Hilariously Brilliant!

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,
But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.
One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,
Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.


If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I speak of my foot and show you my feet,
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?


Then one may be that, and there would be those,
Yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim!


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.


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?

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 folks who grew up speaking English

Should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.
In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?

We ship by truck but send cargo by ship...
We have noses that run and feet that smell.
We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway.
And 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.

And in closing..........


If Father is Pop, how come Mother's not Mop.???

-Author Unknown-
Thanks to Angela who sent me this post.


          

Wednesday 20 July 2011

Lagu zaman kanak-kanak

Police and Thief

Police and Thief
Want to jaga
Polis mati pencuri jaga
(Jikalau versi Remix)
Angkat psitol angkat peluru
Tembak bontotnya lembu

Lagu Ulat Bulu

Ulat bulu panjat lidi
Sape dulu dia yang jadi

Ulat bulu panjat seluar
Sape dulu dia yang kelauar

Tan Tan Tut
Tan tan tot keladi we we
Sape kentot dia anak apek tua

Dalam seluar ada asam jawa
Pagi-pagi pergi jumpa mak we

Lagu Air Pasang Pagi

Air pasang pagi surut pukul lima
Nona bangun pagi siram pokok bunga
Pokok bunga melur tanam tepi pantai
itik bertelur ayam menetas

Cik Babe jatuh dalam parit
Cik Aminah ketawa jerit-jerit

Naik kereta api sampai Kuala Lumpur
Nampak bini cantik terselit bawah dapur


Lat Talilat

Lat talilat lai li tamplom
Mak Minah balik kampong
Beranak dalam tong
Dipotong potong menjadi lontong

Monday 30 May 2011

Beli belah bukan boleh belah !

Aku pegi mydin dengan Kak Jiad, Kak Adah, Kak Tikah, Kak Mama, Dak Akak dan Mak Nyah. Seronok main game. Dapat beli barang dan makanan.