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I can see "why" its hard to learn English

U

Unveiled Artist

Veteran Member
English has so many nonsensical words:

Gobbledygook: wordy and generally unintelligible jargon
Bibble — (v) to drink often; to eat and/or drink noisily
Bumfuzzle — (adj) confused, perplexed
Fiddle fraddle: silly and trivial
Poppy cock: nonsense
Lollygag: spend time aimlessly; idle.
Bamboozled: fooled or tricked
Flabbergasted: greatly surprised or astonished.
Hullabaloo: a commotion; a fuss.
Ragamuffin: a person, typically a child, in ragged, dirty clothes.
Bumfuzzle — (adj) confused, perplexed
Discombobulate: disconcert or confused
Foppish: obsessively dressy
Jolapy: an old car in a dilapidated condition.
Frugal fanny: cheap buyer
Scrupulous: (of a person or process) diligent, thorough, and extremely attentive to details.
Doodle Sack — (n) Old English word for bagpipe
Finifugal: A finifugal person is afraid of finishing anything and is also known as a procrastinator that never finishes anything.
Gibberish: unintelligible or meaningless speech or writing; nonsense.

And believe it or not, these are words. I had to look some up myself.

Do you have any you know or ran across?
 
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Psalm23

Psalm23

Well-Known Member
Ok, so I am thought of a sentence to put some of these words together.

I’m a frugal Fanny driving a jalopy lollygagging through the neighborhood listening to poppy cock on the radio.
 
Evangelicalhumanist

Evangelicalhumanist

"Truth" isn't a thing...
Premium Member
One of my old favourite things -- try reading this aloud without studying it first. Then ask a non-English speaker to try it. Hilarious.

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough
Others may stumble, but not you
On hiccough, thorough, laugh, and through.
And cork and work and card and ward
And font and front and word and sword
Well done! And now if you wish, perhaps
To learn of less familiar traps,
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead: it’s said like bed, not bead–
For goodness sakes don’t call it deed.
Watch out for meat and great and threat,
They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.
A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother.
And here is not a match for there,
And dear and fear for bear and pear.
And then there’s dose and rose and lose–
Just look them up–and goose and choose,
And do and go, then thwart and cart.
Come, come, I’ve hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive!
I’d mastered it when I was five.
 
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