The English Language and the lunacy of it all

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 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, that you comb thru annals of history but not a single annal? 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 preacher praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue?

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 wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?

Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who ARE spring chickens or who would ACTUALLY hurt a fly?

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 clock goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end

The Time Has Come

First of all i would like to say that it feels good to post a new article after a long time of rest. I hope my new idea will bring a positive effect in your life.

Yesterday I went to Jusco. It's in the afternoon. In the prayer room I pat at a man's shoulder (nk imamkan die la). Suddenly a teenage school boy pat my shoulder but he followed my imam (die jd makmum same ngan aku). He also laughed during solah.

Another case from my mother's experience. My mom saw a teenage girl practising solah wearing not tudung but scarf (nmpk anak rambut, mcm balut kepala je), tight t-shirt (nmpk lengan) and jeans (nmpk bentuk). When she 'sujud' the ************ showed (nmpk belakang).

There are books of stories that are same with the cases above.

The thing is our friends outside do not know the basics of solah. It reminds me the Hadith that tells about people will let go the islamic laws first and the last is the issue of solah. A disaster is about to happen if urgent action is not taken. We must change the community. If not us, who will?

The crime rate is increasing rapidly. No wonder if people keep abandoning solah, the pillar of Islam. Moreover, solah can stop fahsya' and munkar from happen. But how to change people? A good leader is a good follower. Start changing yourself first, and automatically people will change, it's physics.