Thank you for the very debut of this brand new blog!
Nice comments, French people reading to try to improve their English (my sister at least), a good debate open by Ed on the Thierry Henry handball! This starts very well!
I hope you will continue being such enthusiastic!
If you canno, don't want or are not inspired to leave a comment, you can, at least "react" by ticking "Funny", "Interesting" or even ... "Boring", if you consider you can read that anymore! lol. I may understand that some people tick "Boring" for F1 articles.
You have perhaps noticed that I struggled a bit with the style of this blog. I had found alternative template but eventually I find them not really convinient, even if they look nicer. I eventually prefer the simplicity of the original blogspot. It's also for that reason I change from Centerblog.
To finish, a piece of illogical English vocabulary which has always disturbed me: the three fruits Raisin, Grape and Grapefruit.
In French, this is "raisin", in English "grape"
And for "dried grapes", we say logically "raisins secs", but English prefer "raisin"...
And why the hell calling that a "grapefruit"? We use a very different word "pamplemousse"
Anyway, it's very unusual that English is illogical, especially if you compare it to French... So, don't worry, I like it, as I like the English language, its country and its people! ;-)
Nice comments, French people reading to try to improve their English (my sister at least), a good debate open by Ed on the Thierry Henry handball! This starts very well!
I hope you will continue being such enthusiastic!
If you canno, don't want or are not inspired to leave a comment, you can, at least "react" by ticking "Funny", "Interesting" or even ... "Boring", if you consider you can read that anymore! lol. I may understand that some people tick "Boring" for F1 articles.
You have perhaps noticed that I struggled a bit with the style of this blog. I had found alternative template but eventually I find them not really convinient, even if they look nicer. I eventually prefer the simplicity of the original blogspot. It's also for that reason I change from Centerblog.
To finish, a piece of illogical English vocabulary which has always disturbed me: the three fruits Raisin, Grape and Grapefruit.
In French, this is "raisin", in English "grape"
And for "dried grapes", we say logically "raisins secs", but English prefer "raisin"...
And why the hell calling that a "grapefruit"? We use a very different word "pamplemousse"
Anyway, it's very unusual that English is illogical, especially if you compare it to French... So, don't worry, I like it, as I like the English language, its country and its people! ;-)
3 comments:
English isn't illogical! it makes perfect sense! (to me anyways, lol)
Grapefruit was named because clusters of the fruit on the tree often appear similar to grapes... obviously! lol, well according to wikipedia anyways
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapefruit#History
tru... but maybe french is just more logical than other languages?
Like in Danish it goes like this:
Grape = vindrue (wine-grape)
Rasin = rosin
Grapefruit = grapefrugt (grape fruit)
Which makes even less sense really.
Hey that's a first step through the truth Craig, thanks! Apparently Danish people didn't seem more clever on this point as they just copy the English mistake and added some Danish-like sounds... Hehe
But to conclude, don't worry, if there is one illogical and difficult language, it is French! So many different grammatical rules and for each of them, so many exceptions! That gives a lot of exceptions!
Let's say that this example of English is the exception of this simple and good-to-learn language!
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