The English language is messed up!

[Wibbles]

1 hour ago, marled said:

But now I stop to bore the forum people. I have shown enough that I am a freak! ?

It's all good by me. 

Your post raises many discussion points ... but thankfully for everyone else I've run out of steam for the day. 

[InstrEd]

31 minutes ago, Wibbles said:

I've run out of steam for the day. 

Finally going Green. Good for you

[InstrEd]

Or did your Tea just go cold ?

[Wibbles]

11 minutes ago, InstrEd said:

Or did your Tea just go cold ?

Never touch the stuff.

[InstrEd]

If you never touch the stuff of course it will go Cold ?

[Tony Carpenter]

Then the tea would fit you to a tee? ;).

[craigb]

Nigel is tea-ed off. ?

[InstrEd]

9 hours ago, Tony Carpenter said:

Then the tea would fit you to a tee? ;).

While doing that I'd prefer a

[Tony Carpenter]

@InstrEd Yuck.... 

[InstrEd]

@Tony Carpenter

I actually make my own iced tea and lemonade mixture. Cheaper and taste a whole lot better. But the picture was only for illustrated purposes ?

[InstrEd]

Ain't tis Engash language fon?

[Wibbles]

59 minutes ago, InstrEd said:

But the picture was only for illustrated purposes ?

This picture is for illustrated porpoises:

[InstrEd]

I dolphin get it                                     ? 

 

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[craigb]

Go fish.

[JohnG]

21 hours ago, InstrEd said:

But the picture was only for illustrated purposes ?

<Sprachpolizei>

... for illustrat ed ion purposes.

FTFY ?

... or illustrative purposes, or illegitimate purposes, or illimitable, or illogical, or Illuminati, or illuminating, or illusionist, or even illustrious porpoises ...

just not illustrated.

Got it?

</Sprachpolizei>

(Entschuldigung, ich war mehr als acht Jahre Englischlehrer in Deutschland!)

Edited May 28, 2020 by JohnG

[InstrEd]

@JohnG

Now I really need my coffee this morning.

[Wibbles]

20 hours ago, InstrEd said:

I dolphin get it                                     ? 

 

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17 hours ago, craigb said:

Go fish.

Whilst doing some research into my family tree, in some parish church baptism records I came across a Mr & Mrs Fish who named their son George Dolphin Fish.  I guess zoology wasn't their strong point.

Amongst his siblings were two brothers: John Pilot Fish* and Salmon Fish. His sisters were more sensibly named: 

Sarah Fish, Rachel Elizabeth Fish and Ellen Sophia Fish

He was born in 1840. In 1863 he married Harriette Bird!

 

NB: They aren't relations of my mine.

 

 

* I wonder whether they were thinking of the pilot whale, which is, in fact, a species of dolphin.

Edited May 28, 2020 by Wibbles

[JohnG]

24 minutes ago, Wibbles said:

...  I came across a Mr & Mrs Fish who named their son George Dolphin Fish.  I guess zoology wasn't their strong point.

Amongst his siblings were two brothers: John Pilot Fish* and Salmon Fish.

* I wonder whether they were thinking of the pilot whale, which is, in fact, a species of dolphin.

Whoops, what a blunder!

As you say zoology was, perhaps, not their strong point.

Aren't pilot whales and dolphins, in fact air breathing mammals, not fish?

Whereas the salmon is, indeed, a fish.

(I've often thought, shouldn't zoology actually be spelled zooology, maybe hyphenated zoo-ology?)

Passing thoughts certainly can be illuminatingly illogical, leaving one feeling, somehow, ill-at-ease. Donchathink?

[InstrEd]

2 hours ago, JohnG said:

leaving one feeling, somehow, ill-at-ease. Donchathink?

Nah,  just makes me want to have some donuts. Speaking of nuts how come almonds don't have nuts in them put walnuts do?

[InstrEd]

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