Members are having a dance party (click on the music icon at the end of this page to hear it if you are not hearing it now. There is some interesting conversation translated for you to enjoy.
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, two indices? Is cheese the plural of choose?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers prought? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
In what language do people recite a play, and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can it be that when a house burns up, it burns down? And if sometimes you are overwhelmed, and other times you are underwhelmed, when are you ever just whelmed?
You fill in a form by filling it out and an alarm clock goes off by going on. When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
And why, when I wind a watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it?
IDIOS AMIGOS -------- We're wild and crazy guys
COGITO, EGGO SUM -------- I think, therefore I am a waffle
RIGOR MORRIS --------- The cat is dead
RESPONDEZ S'IL VOUS PLAID ---------- Honk if you're Scottish
QUE SERA SERF -------------- Life is feudal
LE ROI EST MORT, JIVE LE ROI ------------- The king is dead. No kidding
POSH MORTEM -------------- Death styles of the rich and famous
VENI, VIPI, VICI -------- I came, I'm a very important person, I conquered
PRO BOZO PUBLICO --------- Support your local clown
MONAGE A TROIS --------- I am three years old
FELIX NAVIDAD ------- Our cat has a boat
HASTE CUISINE ------ Fast French food
VENI, VIDI, VICE ------- I came, I saw, I partied
QUIP PRO QUO ------- A fast retort
ALOHA OY ---------Love; greetings, farewell; from such a pain you should never know
MAZEL TON --------- Tons of good luck
APRES MOE LE DELUGE ------- Curly and Larry got wet
PORT-KOCHERE ---------- Sacramental wine
ICH LIEBE RICH ---------- I'm really crazy about having dough
FIU GENERIS -------- What's mine is mine!
EX POST FUCTO --------- Lost in the mail
VISA LA FRANCE -------- Don't leave your chateau without it
CA VA SANS DIRT -------- And that's not gossip
MERCI RIEN ---------- Thanks for nothin'
L'ETAT, C'EST MOO --------- I'm Bossy around here
PARLEZ-VOUS FRANCOIS? -------- Are you and Frank still speaking?
E Pluribus Anum ........ the buses leave but once a year
Veni, Vidi, Visa .......I came, I saw, I shopped
Cul de Sap ..........Call my brother-in-law
Pul de Sac .......... What Santa told the elf
L'etat, cest Moe.....All the world is a Stooge
Vigor Mortis .... A lively old stiff
Coifus Interruptus ....... My hairdresser got a phone call
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