English is One Strange Language... English is the easiest langauge to learn, mostly because it doesn't make use of male/female for everything, like other lanugages do. ইংরেজী শেখা সহজ, এই ভাষায় অন্য ভাষার মত সব কিছুতে জেন্ডার নেই। ফরাসী ভাষায় ইংল্যান্ড স্ত্রীলিঙ্গ আর যুক্তরাস্ট্র পুংলিঙ্গ! But even being easy to learn, it doesn't mean that it's easy to master, or that it doesn't have some pretty weird attibutes that have made their way into the language with time. Enjoy these 3 examples of why English is a crazy language! শেখা সহজ হতে পারে তবে পুরোপুরি আয়ত্বে আনা সহজ নয়! নীচে তিন ধরনের উদাহরন দেখুন: Double Use Words: একই শব্দের দুরকম ব্যাবহার আর দুরকম মানে: শ্রদ্ধেয় ব্লগারদের সুবিধার্থে প্রতিটি ঐ ধরনের শব্দের ডানে বাংলা অনুবাদ দেয়া হল। 1) The bandage was wound (পেঁচানো) around the wound ক্ষত স্হান). 2) The farm was used to produce (উৎপাদন) produce (সামগ্রী). 3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse (অস্বীকার) more refuse (আবর্জনা). 4) We must polish (পালিশ করা) the Polish (পোল্যান্ডের তৈরী) furniture. 5) He could lead (নেতৃত্ব) if he would get the lead (সুত্র)out. 6) The soldier decided to desert (পরিত্যাগ করা) his dessert (মিষ্টান্ন) in the desert (মরুভুমি). 7) Since there is no time like the present (বর্তমান), he thought it was time to present (উপস্হাপন) the present (উপহার). 8) A bass(গভীর) was painted on the head of the bass (প্রধান) drum. 9) When shot at, the dove (ঘুঘু) dove (ঝাপ দিল)) into the bushes. 10) I did not object (আপত্তি) to the object (উদ্দেশ্য). 11) The insurance was invalid (অকেজো) for the invalid (অচল মানুষ). 12) There was a row (লাইন) among the oarsmen about how to row (নৌকা বাওয়া). 13) They were too close (কাছে) to the door to close (বন্ধ করা) it. 14) Upon seeing the tear (ছেড়া) in the painting I shed a tear(অশ্রু). 15) How can I intimate (জানানো) this to my most intimate (ঘনিষ্ঠ) friend? Things that make no sense! কিছু বিচিত্র শব্দ! 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 is 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 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' ? UP is a very strange word! 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. A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. 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 clearing UP. 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! And now it's UP to you what you do with this knowledge! :- সংগৃহিত