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twodogsbarking

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10. I have coarse and fine sea salt. After skipping on the coarse I thought to myself "fine is fine".

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Sun Feb 15, 2026, 10:12 AM

19 hrs ago

Then I thought how messed up English can be.

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The most not fun sentence in English for folks learning English 😀 [View all] malaise 22 hrs ago OP

;-{)....... Goonch 21 hrs ago #1

;-{) I borrowed one of your hearts🤣 Goonch 21 hrs ago #2

Hehehehe malaise 21 hrs ago #4

Nicely played malaise 21 hrs ago #3

"Buffalo" is the name of a ruminant mammal and a city in NY state. It can also mean "to bully, obstruct". eppur_se_muova 20 hrs ago #5

ROFL malaise 20 hrs ago #6

This message was self-deleted by its author malaise 20 hrs ago #7

Some punctuation might help. :-) TheRickles 20 hrs ago #8

Ain't that the truth. n/t malthaussen 19 hrs ago #11

That's the sentence I'd like to drag my seventh-grade teacher to and say... malthaussen 19 hrs ago #9

I have coarse and fine sea salt. After skipping on the coarse I thought to myself "fine is fine". twodogsbarking 19 hrs ago #10

LOL malaise 19 hrs ago #14

Ah but goose has yet another meaning. If you get goosed more than once is it geesed? twodogsbarking 17 hrs ago #17

Love it malaise 16 hrs ago #18

Do you really want to know? Chellee 15 hrs ago #29

I always want to learn something malaise 15 hrs ago #31

You're welcome Chellee 8 hrs ago #37

That letter is silent until I sez it aint! paleotn 19 hrs ago #12

French is the worst.. Permanut 15 hrs ago #28

Perhaps learning to read English. Igel 19 hrs ago #13

Spelled "ghoti" sounds exactly like "fish." Kid Berwyn 19 hrs ago #15

Haha malaise 18 hrs ago #16

When I was living in Catalunya, it was a requirement to learn the one about the setze jutges (sixteen judges) DFW 16 hrs ago #19

Haha malaise 16 hrs ago #20

When my daughters were very little I taught them the first part of that DFW 16 hrs ago #21

Clearly not wimps malaise 15 hrs ago #22

Here is the ultimate test of all time (you have to click on "watch on youtube" ) DFW 15 hrs ago #23

LOL malaise 15 hrs ago #24

5.8 million views DFW 15 hrs ago #25

Well I know every word for this one malaise 15 hrs ago #26

These words were part of one of the very very early I Love Lucy episodes sdfernando 15 hrs ago #27

Fascinating malaise 15 hrs ago #30

Interesting video! If you'd like to know how English ended up with those spellings/pronunciations, I posted highplainsdem 14 hrs ago #32

Thanks malaise 14 hrs ago #33

You're welcome! I love the OED. Have the compact edition I bought about highplainsdem 14 hrs ago #34

Have mine right here malaise 14 hrs ago #35

Great! highplainsdem 14 hrs ago #36