English!!! (Grrrrr)
I tried to do what each teacher has asked me to do, yet each time I write a paper it seems that its just not good enough. I like to perfect my English writing but at the same time SJSU does not really help you. You waist your time going to the union center where you can ask someone to read your paper, yet they do not know how they can help you.
You attend class and someone reads you paper and helps you with correcting your mistakes and gives you advice. You hand it to someone with an attitude that just does not know how to give advice and only says "oh my gosh". This person or the comment he/she made, made me so mad that people like him/her just do not make it easy to give your draft for review. I would never give it to this person after that stupid comment he made! I rather give it to someone I know, who will correct my paper and tell me what I did wrong versus someone just saying out loud "OH MY GOSH, OH MY GOSH!"....I guess some have an ego that tells them they are great writers and yet this person is in my POL100W (hmm...I bet he/she does the same mistakes I do with words use incorrectly).
Yes, English is my second language. :)
WHY ENGLISH IS SO HARD
We All begin with box, and the plural is boxes;But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes.Then one fowl is goose, but two are called geese,Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.You may find a lone mouse or a whole lot of mice, But the plural of house is houses, not hice.If the plural of man is always called men,Why shouldn’t the plural of pan be called pen?The cow in the plural may be cows or kine,But the plural of vow is vows, not vine.And I speak of a foot, and you show me your feet,But I give a boot -- would a pair be called beet?If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, Why shouldn’t the plural of booth be called beeth?Then one may be that, and three may be those,Yet the plural of hat would never be hose.We speak of a brother, and also of brethren,But though we say mother, we never say methren.The masculine pronouns are he, his and him,But imagine the feminine she, shis, and shim!So our English, I think you will all agree,Is the trickiest language you ever did see.When the English tongue we speakWhy is break not rhymed with freak?We say sew but likewise few;And the maker of a verse Cannot cap his horse with worse?Beard sounds not the same as heard;Cord is different from word.Cow is cow, but low is low;Shoe is never rhymed with foe.Think of hose and dose and lose;And of goose and yet of choose.Think of tomb and comb and bomb,Doll and roll and home and some,And since pay is rhymed with say,Why not paid with said, I pray?We have blood and food and good,Mould is not rhymed with could,Wherefore done but gone and lone.Is there any reason known?So in short it seems to meSounds and letters disagree.
Credit on poem:Handout created by the staff and students of the DVC Learning Center. Copyright 2003.
You attend class and someone reads you paper and helps you with correcting your mistakes and gives you advice. You hand it to someone with an attitude that just does not know how to give advice and only says "oh my gosh". This person or the comment he/she made, made me so mad that people like him/her just do not make it easy to give your draft for review. I would never give it to this person after that stupid comment he made! I rather give it to someone I know, who will correct my paper and tell me what I did wrong versus someone just saying out loud "OH MY GOSH, OH MY GOSH!"....I guess some have an ego that tells them they are great writers and yet this person is in my POL100W (hmm...I bet he/she does the same mistakes I do with words use incorrectly).
Yes, English is my second language. :)
WHY ENGLISH IS SO HARD
We All begin with box, and the plural is boxes;But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes.Then one fowl is goose, but two are called geese,Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.You may find a lone mouse or a whole lot of mice, But the plural of house is houses, not hice.If the plural of man is always called men,Why shouldn’t the plural of pan be called pen?The cow in the plural may be cows or kine,But the plural of vow is vows, not vine.And I speak of a foot, and you show me your feet,But I give a boot -- would a pair be called beet?If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, Why shouldn’t the plural of booth be called beeth?Then one may be that, and three may be those,Yet the plural of hat would never be hose.We speak of a brother, and also of brethren,But though we say mother, we never say methren.The masculine pronouns are he, his and him,But imagine the feminine she, shis, and shim!So our English, I think you will all agree,Is the trickiest language you ever did see.When the English tongue we speakWhy is break not rhymed with freak?We say sew but likewise few;And the maker of a verse Cannot cap his horse with worse?Beard sounds not the same as heard;Cord is different from word.Cow is cow, but low is low;Shoe is never rhymed with foe.Think of hose and dose and lose;And of goose and yet of choose.Think of tomb and comb and bomb,Doll and roll and home and some,And since pay is rhymed with say,Why not paid with said, I pray?We have blood and food and good,Mould is not rhymed with could,Wherefore done but gone and lone.Is there any reason known?So in short it seems to meSounds and letters disagree.
Credit on poem:Handout created by the staff and students of the DVC Learning Center. Copyright 2003.
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