Re: OT Humour More English Language (only a little rude)
- From: "~KK in BC~" <koffeekupz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 14:56:23 GMT
Yikes ! I am going to have to tune UP my understanding of the word UP if I
am ever going to be UP to the challenges you are digging UP!!
LOL
Do you ever get to a point when you read ONE word over and over and over
again, that the one word really makes NO sense to you after a while? The
more I read UP the less sense it made to read those 2 letters together, got
to the point of silliness in my brain....
..... oh wait, that is the lack of sleep and this dang infection and cold
talking I think. My eyeballs are viewing fuzzy words up on my screen. Time
for me to get UP off this chair and put my feet UP on the couch and possibly
have a nap. If I don't then I may not be UP to going UP to my parents house
for supper!!!
~KK in BC~ who really needs to go back to bed......... when your own post
confuses you then you know you are having a few issues.
"CATS" <CATS@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:463de040$1_1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Lovers of the English language might enjoy this.....How do
non-natives ever learn all the nuances of English???
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings
than any other two-letter word, and that word 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
a 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.
And this up is confusing:
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 1/4 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
UP the earth.
When it doesn't! Rain for awhile, things dry UP .
One could go on & on, but I'll wrap it UP , for now my time
is UP , so ....
Time to shut UP.....!
Oh...one more thing:
What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last
thing you do
at night?
U P
Don't screw up .
--
Cheryl & the Cats in OZ
o o o o o o
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