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The Most Hilarious and Confusing English Sayings Ever

How well is your English? Have you ever made the similar funny and confusing English?

The language of a people is intimately connected with its social organization and way of thinking, customs and habits. These are especially important for the understanding of someone's culture as each language does not share a common heritage. The language is best suited to explanation based on sentence patterns or structures; these are particularly helpful for the learner since certain new sentences can often be formed simply by substituting other words or expressions. This situation is possible in languages such as Japanese, Korean, French or German by not worrying to make words agree in terms of distinctions between masculine/feminine as well as singular/plural.

There is no doubt that understanding some languages may bring a wealth of advantages. At the very least it is a courtesy, and gives a tremendous confidence to enjoy some independence in being able to get around without having to rely on others all the time. Most importantly, all sorts of opportunities open up when one can talk to a wider range of people from more varied backgrounds than is possible if you only speak your own mother tongue.

From my own personal experiences, it is not easy to master one language. Take for an example, the word order between Japanese and English. In English, verbs precede their objects (e.g. I saw a man), but in Japanese, verbs normally follow their objects, so verbs come last in a sentence. Subjects like “I” in English sentence, and even objects “man” are always optional in Japanese and Korean. Word order differences deserve special attention in the Japanese equivalents to English relative clauses and comparative sentences.

Thus, “Yesterday I saw a man who had red trousers” in English turns out to be “Yesterday red trousers had man saw” in Japanese. With this in mind, it is awful to translate directly from one language to another. A communicative and effective language should incorporate integrated skill approach by developing listening, speaking, reading and writing skills simultaneously, while fostering an awareness and appreciation to its culture as a medium for an immediate better grasp of its words, expressions, and structures as well. With these concepts, it is hoped that more people will learn language by making it more accessible and interesting to learn.

The level of English varies from place to place and from school to school within each country. For this reason, it is difficult to specifically determine the English level people are using now. English nowadays, is not perfectly grasped, and modern people tend to use “English” that are not really English in its origin. It has become a global issue that native speakers themselves too make mistakes as the recent trend shows that the improper use of English is no longer a distinct trademark for non-English speakers. To put it in a nutshell, we all make mistakes!

Below is some hilarious and confusing English sayings people use everywhere around the world. These sayings, not only make no sense, but also cause for a little confusion and misunderstanding. It is always useful to know some of these sayings so as not to be left in the dark side of the Standard English.

  1. From see you one eye, I s**t love you
  2. I beat letter very fast, because I am a computer high hand. I even act as black guest.
  3. I do early f-*-*-k every day, so that I can have strong body to protect you
  4. Please come to play with me, or I will cut my hair to be a monk, and find a place where many monks live in to game over my life
  5. Money is not everything. There's MasterCard & Visa. .
  6. Save water and shower with your girlfriend. .
  7. Love the neighbor. But don't get caught by her husband. .
  8. Behind every successful man, there is a woman. And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two women.
  9. The wise never marry, and when they marry they become otherwise.
  10. Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives. .
  11. Love is photogenic. It needs darkness room to develop. .
  12. Children in backseats will cause accidents. Accidents in backseats can bear children.
  13. "Your future depends on your dreams." So go to sleep. .
  14. There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning.
  15. "Hard work never killed anybody." But why take the risk?.
  16. "Work fascinates me." I can look at it for hours! .
  17. God made relatives; Thank God we can choose our friends.
  18. When two companion it's not stable, but three have a good result!
  19. A dress is like a barbed fence. It protects the premises without restricting the view.
  20. The more you learn, the more you know, the more you know, and the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why bother to learn?
  21. Women need to cry. And they won't do it alone unless they know you can hear them.
  22. Women especially love a bargain
  23. Women will always ask questions that have no center answers, in an effort to trap you into a feeling of guilty.
  24. Women love to talk. Silent intimates them and they feel need to fillet, even if they have nothing to say.
  25. Women need to feel like there are people worse off than they are
  26. Women hate bugs. Even the strong willed ones need a man around when there is a spider or a wasp around.
  27. Love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
  28. No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won't make you cry. .
  29. Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
  30. To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. .
  31. Don't waste your time on a man/woman, who isn't willing to waste their time on you.
  32. Don't try so hard, the best things come when you least expect the them to.
  33. Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful.
  34. Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened
  35. Women keep three different shampoos in the shower. After a woman showers, the bathroom will smell like a tropical rainforest. .
  36. Women never understand why men love toys. Men understand that they wouldn't need toys if women had a ″on/off switch.
  37. Women can't refuse to answer a ringing phone, no matter what she is doing
  38. Women always go to public rest rooms in groups. It gives them a chance to gossip.
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    Comments (6)
    #1 by Liane Schmidt, Feb 5, 2008
    Interesting and entertaining.

    Best wishes.

    Sincerely,

    -Liane Schmidt.
    #2 by Judy Sheldon, Feb 5, 2008
    Chan, this is a very interesting compilation of sayings. Thanks for sharing.
    #3 by Lucy Lockett, Feb 5, 2008
    This was funny but really interesting.
    #4 by valli, Feb 5, 2008
    Very interesting.
    #5 by Moses Ingram, Feb 7, 2008
    Thank you for sharing.
    #6 by Tracy, Feb 15, 2008
    Not bad...I laughed at parts, and wanted to save some of those quotes. =) Though I'm not sure how some of the other women reading these are going to react...
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