Complex Vs Simple English

Sesquipedalian Expressions!!! - It's fun for English lovers . . .

Note: The complex form is in Bold and the simple form is in Italics

1.
Scintillate scintillate asteroid minute

Twinkle Twinkle little star

2.
Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate

Birds of the same feathers flock together

3.
Surveillance should precede saltation

Look before you leap

4.
It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitately departed lactose fluid

Don't cry over spilled milk

5.
Freedom from encrustation of grime is contiguous to divinity

Cleanliness is next to godliness

6.
The stylus is more potent than the claymore

The pen is mightier than the sword

7.
It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuver

You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

8.
Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion

Spare the rod and spoil the child

9.
The temperature of aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled saucepan does not reach 212 fahrenheit

A watched pot never boils

10.
Newphyte's serendipity

Beginner's luck

11.
Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony

Dead men don't talk

12.
Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting petrous projectiles

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

13.
All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous

All that glitters is not gold

14.
Where there are visible vapors having their province in ignited carbonaceous material there is conflagration

Where there is smoke there is fire

15.
Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted

Beggars cannot be choosers

16.
A plethora of individuals with expertise in culinary techniques dilapidates the potable concoction produced by steeping comestibles

Too many cooks spoil the broth

17.
Exclusive dedication to necessary chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders Jack a hebephrenic fellow

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

18.
A revolving lathic conglomerate accumulates no diminutive galucous syrophytic plants

A rolling stone gathers no mass

19.
The person with the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby, the optimal cachinnation

He who laughs last laughs best

20.
Missiles of ligneous or petrous consistency have the potential of fracturing my osseous structure but appellation will eternally be benign

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me

21.
Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity

Beauty is only skin deep

22.
You are cordially invited to the theological place of eternal punishment

Go to Hell!!!

My Worst Battle

Thunder without lightning;

Lightning without rain;

Rain without clouds;

Clouds without vapor;

Sea without fish;

Fish without water;

Water without oxygen;

Oxygen without life;

Life without love;

Love without family;

That's the worst battle I fight -

In my loved ones' absence!!!

--- Arun Kumar K.

A little too much of English with its oxymorons, paradoxes, stupidity, confusion, and so on!!!

You think English is easy?  

English teacher was bored when she wrote this.
It took a lot of thought to put together!

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.

2) The farm was used to produce produce.

3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

4) We must polish the Polish furniture..

5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert..

7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to
present the present.

8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10) I did not object to the object.

11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

13) They were too close to the door to close it.

14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.

15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear..

19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

Let's face it - English is a crazy language.

21) There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.

22) English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.

23) Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

24) 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..

25) And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?

26) 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?

27) Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?

28) If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

29) If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

30) 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?

31) Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

32) How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

33) 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 goes off by going on.

34) English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all.

35) That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick'?

You lovers of the English language might enjoy this ..

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that 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 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.

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 1/4th 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 the earth and often messes things UP.

When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so.......it is time to shut UP!

Suchi's Sports Day 2011 at School

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Interesting and funny criticisms

A woman says to Vijay during a campaign: "We tolerated your movies in theaters, but we cannot tolerate your Politics..."















Ricky Ponting: I was already under frustration after getting out early during the match. In addition, I returned to my dressing room just to watch the TV and they were showing the Vijay movie "Suraa". Just imagine. How can I control my temper???




Karunanidhi: Hello, is it Obama? What? Are you planning to give Oscar award my movie "Ilaignan"? I don't want all that. Just have a festival felicitating the movie. That is enough.

Kanimozhi: Hmm . . . the telephone wire has been cut for the past 4 days. Well, this bandha is common in politics!!!



Sarath Kumar: Hmm . . . Rajinikanth has been keeping his face like this since he acted in the movie Endhiran.

Rajinikanth: Well, till my next movie Rana is released, I have to be like this only. No one knows who will be the Chief Minister when the movie Rana is getting released!!!






Gautham Vasudeva Menon: I have a very interesting script where a negative hero rapes only old ladies. I have also decided on the title for the movie: "Pattapagal peigal (Noon Devils)". Are you interested in acting in that movie?
Simbu: Singing a song in his mind: "Who gave birth to you, if I get hold of him, he is no more."




Sreesanth: (Singing aloud) "Someone saves the sky . . . someone saves the earth . . . but the one who saves me is . . . Dhoni, Dhoni, Dhoni"











Manmohan Singh: I don't know who you are. You never told me anything. Please don't put me in trouble.

Raja: (Singing a tamil song) "Oora therinjukitten ulagam purinjukitten kanmani en kanmani" (in english) "I learnt about the city, I now understood the whole world my dear my dear".



Ricky Ponting: (To Brett Lee) Dude . . . we are getting down into the pitch, picking up all the wickets in no time and lifting the World Cup this year!!!









Dhoni to Ricky Ponting: You better not imagine placing your hands on the World Cup. If you still want to do that, I will kill you!!!









Note: The criticisms were not originally drafted by me. It is not even my imagination. It was available through some sources and I have just compiled and shared them here.

To be separated … tolerable only for a good cause!!!

3 years … then a break of 4 years
and 3 years once again in my life
I had lived alone with no one to share my sorrows
or even my happiness when it was necessary.

Friends were there of course, no doubt about it
hardly a couple of true ones out of the lot
the real true ones were out of reach, and
the true ones with me were waiting to be parted.

I never felt for that lonely life, for I learnt what the true world is
not from the true friends … who were a few blossoms
out of the several thorns of other people
who were friends for name sake.

But I never felt the loneliness … in my life
until September 2007 when I got married
I had someone to care for me and show me real love
next only to my parents and brother.

She showed me the other side of the world
she became so attached to me and I got addicted
that she became my whole in just 6 months we were together
but time … is the greatest player in separating her from me.

When I say we are separated, it’s not that total separation;
she was carrying my heir and
had to go to her mother to deliver the first baby
and come back with the reward for the true love we shared.

The 6 years I lived in a lonely world puzzled me
posed questions how just 6 months’ change could create such an impact
I debated with my own mind searching for an answer to that question
and at last concluded that true love is too dangerous to be separated from.

Now I have the reward in hand for the separation I experienced
that’s the arrival of my daughter Suchibut
fate is making another move in my life
that’s by extending the separation from my wife and daughter.

I now have the confidence to face it as I am 6 months experienced in it
I have already crossed 6 months of separation from my wife, and
now I only have to spend another 4 months of separation, and
to be separated … tolerable only for a good cause!!!

The Laughing Mask — We all need one

Some people laugh always
some people laugh occasionally
most people hardly laugh, but
all people are in the same ship

there is no man who is always happy
there is no man who is always sad
all we got to do is to change expressions, and
laugh everytime we get a chance

at times, for a class of people
who hardly get a chance to laugh
there’s another piece of advice, which says
laugh at your own misfortunes

happiness or sadness is your choice
either you treat the situation with happiness
or you treat the situation with sadness, so
it all depends on how you view it

life is short but there’re lots to do
in course we get to meet a lot of friends
they laugh while you laugh and they cry while you cry, and
everyone’s happiness is mutually inclusive

if not for your sake, but for your friends around you
if not for yourself, but for your near and dear
whatever may be the sorrows that abound you, please
hide them all and use this laughing mask

a smile can change everything around you
a smile can change your foes to friends
a smile can change even the unchangeable, so
if you cannot smile, at least use the laughing mask

my laughing mask is not real
my laughing mask is not something that covers your face
my laughing mask is not a physical mask indeed, but
it is just a change in your character

learn to welcome tough times with happiness
learn to welcome misfortunes with a smile
because you cannot reach the rose without crossing the thorns, so
develop your own laughing mask