Foo community and anything-you-like-ness

do you think aliens have visited earth?

Golden — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:38:00 GMT

do you think aliens have visited earth?
i'm very scared to even think about it.

Japanese songs

Mike in Japan — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:46:10 GMT

NEW!

Why can't the English?

Tanit — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:50:37 GMT

I love it!

(the song starts at 2:55)

Look at her, a prisoner of the gutters
Condemned by every syllable she utters
By rights she should be taken out and hung
For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue
Aw!
Heavens what a sound!
This is what the British population
Calls an elementary education
Oh come sir, I think you picked a poor example!
Did I?

Hear them down in Soho square
Dropping h's everywhere
Speaking English any way they like
You sir, did you go to school?
What do you tike me for, a fool?
No one taught him take instead of tike

Hear a Yorkishman or worse
Hear a Cornishman converse
I'd rather hear a choir singing flat
Chickens cackling in a barn, just like this one
G'on! G'on!
I ask you sir, what sort of word is that?
It's aw and g'on that keep her in her place
Not her wretched clothes and dirty face

Why can't the English
Teach their children how to speak
This verbal class distinction
By now should be antique
If you spoke as she does, sir
Instead of the way you do
Why you might be out selling flowers too
I beg your pardon!

An Englishman's way of speaking
Absolutely classifies him
The moment he talks
He makes some other Englishmen despise him
One common language I'm afraid we'll never get
Oh why can't the English learn to

Set a good example
To people whose English is painful to your ears
The Scots and the Irish leave you close to tears
There even are places where English completely disappears
Well, in America they haven't used it for years

Why can't the English
Teach their children how to speak
Norwegians learn Norwegian
The Greeks are taught their Greek
In France every Frenchman
Knows his language from A to Zed
The French don't care what they do actually
As long as they pronounce it properly

Arabians learn Arabian
With the speed of summer lightning
The Hebrews learn it backwards
Which is absolutely frightening
But use proper English, you're regarded as a freak
Oh why can't the English
Why can't the English
Learn to speak!

how to improve my spoken english

Samatha — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:48:17 GMT

hi,

please help me

i am not good in spoken english.now iam attendeding interviews

in software engg jobs.iam technicaly good

but iam missing all my opportunties b'coz of my communication

plese tell me

how to improve my spokenenglish .i need a job very much

please help me

thanks

What are you listening to?

Floxflow — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:52:18 GMT

Hi everybody!

this is an call to everyone on this forum!

Please tell us what song / artists you're listening to right now! And is it a good song?

I hope to get a lot of reactions!

A reason to learn English

Tanit — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:05:15 GMT

Is English important for your job?

Learn English! Please!

Punkybrewster — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:07:11 GMT

Ah ze Germans! Hehe I love this vid

English forums on Facebook!

Punkybrewster — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:29:22 GMT

Englishforums now has a group on facebook, so come and join us
You can also show posts you make by clicking on the "share on Facebook" button on top of a thread, and it will add them to your profile.

Jim Carrey is imitating CSI David Caruso..awesome!

JCDenton — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:09:21 GMT

Well, guys..* I puts on sunglasses * ...I hope you will enjoy this video...

regards

There was this poem....

The Hangman — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 22:49:04 GMT

That my English teacher read to us in class one day, and I absolutely loved it. It was about this little town that a Hangman came to, set up his gallows in the town square, and commenced hanging people. All the while he keeps mentioning in various speeches to the villagers that he's looking for someone and that he'll stop hanging people when he finds who it is he's looking for. The poem is from the point of view of one citizen who has no intention of being hanged, so he keeps his head down and wonders who the Hangman is looking for and when the hangings wil stop. At the end of the poem, everyone in town is dead except for our "protagonist", and the Hangman approaches him and tells him that it's him that he's been looking for, because he was the one that kept his head down and let everyone else be hanged. She read it to us because it showed the mentaility of most Jewish people during WWII, who mostly kept their heads down and avoided trouble in the hopes that it'll just stop on it's own.

Does anyone know what this poem is called and who it's by?
I just thought of it out of the blue the other day, and it's been bugging me.

prom hairstyles

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:26:35 GMT

Hair styles & haircuts for prom. Do you like more short or long hair style, which is the most beautiful prom hairstyle for you...?

How to improve fluency

riyazuddinm — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 04:27:38 GMT

I work in a corporate company ,how ever i cant speak as fluen as my other
collegues.please guid m ehow to improve fluency .will be thankful to you all.

help me !

Krozer — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:43:47 GMT

hi all, i am looking for someone who can speak fluent german and english so tht they can help me with my german, if you can please post here with your msn address thanks !!!

How to be a Master of Ceremony

Ratri — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 05:04:10 GMT

Hi,
Do you have any draft Master of Ceremony for a formal occasion or a workshop?
My boss asked me to be Master of Ceremony for the workshop that will be attended by Minister of Finance. So, it will be the formal occasion. The problem is, my English is so messy. Thus, this is my first performance and until now (5 day before D-day), I still don't know what I have to say on that occasion.
I need some advise what words I have to say for opening the workshop, introducing the speaker, continuing from one to another session, and closing the workshop with the formal language.
I'm waiting for the advise. Thank you..

Kowloon skyscapes

Mike in Japan — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:20:13 GMT

Margarine vs. Butter

Guest — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:33:36 GMT

READ IT ALL, IT GETS BETTER AS YOU GO!

Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back. It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavourings.

DO YOU KNOW...the difference between margarine and butter? Read on to the end... it gets very interesting! Both have the same amount of calories. Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams. Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study. Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.

Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few only because they are added! Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavours of other foods. Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years. And now, for Margarine. Very high in trans fatty acids. Triple risk of coronary heart disease. Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol). Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold. Lowers quality of breast milk. Decreases immune response. Decreases insulin response. And here's the most disturbing fact....

HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC. This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).

You can try this yourself: Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things: * no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something) * it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny micro organisms will not find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic. Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?

Russian songs

Mike in Japan — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:11:17 GMT

This is pretty gross. I'm kinda sorry to start things this way, BUT... it can only get better. :-)

EDIT Now I can't get the chorus to this song out of my head! Despite the subject matter, I love the music!

Do you think it is possible?

Ant_222 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:23:00 GMT

  I dropped my late grandfa's pocket watch and  the  glass  fell
  off. Today I brang it to the  repair  store.  The  guy  quckly
  fixed it,  but  when  I  asked  the  price  he  was  seriously
  offended.

  "I didn't do anthing! What money??" -- said he.

  So I had to take my watch without paying anything.

Jimi Hendrix â¢ Voodoo Chile/Voodoo Child

Paultx — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:26:54 GMT

That song appears with these two different titles: Voodoo Chile and Voodoo Child. The lyrics of Voodoo Chile starts with:

Well, Im a voodoo chile
Lord Im a voodoo chile

Well, Chile, AFAIK, is a South American country, then child seems to best fit the lyrics to me.

So why there is that "chile" thing?

Enter Hendrix fans.

thank- you letter to a doctor

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:49:40 GMT

Greets,

Would it be appropriate to send a thank-you card to a Doctor. He operated on me, it was day surgery but I was off work

for 7 weeks, when I went back for my check-up, I always seem to get nervous when I seea doctor and I think I forgot to thank-him . He's a wonderful

doctor. and if so what can I say to keep it nice and simple to show my appriciation. Thanks for your help

English in Sydney

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:35:19 GMT

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www.sydneyenglishstudent.blogspot.com

I would appreciate you having a look and spreading the word. Completely free service - just information.

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Another one, oh please learn English!

Punkybrewster — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:59:18 GMT

Longest Word in the World In the English Language

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:02:50 GMT

I saw a very long thread about this topic, and I wanted to set the record completely straight. You will notice that I mentioned ENGLISH LANGUAGE in the subject. Unless someone can give us a reliable definition for the extremely long finnish word I believe we should refrain from discussing it.

The main debate appears to be whether PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS is a legitimate word, as it was coined simply to make a new longest word but has a real definition. Many have said that FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION is the longest REAL word, because of previously stated complication with PNEU..., which is described as "factitious", meaning artificial. However, it appears in four respectable dictionaries and as I have said, has a real definition. Because it is "real" enough to be actually used in conversation (although maybe only at medical colleges) I believe it has enough status to be considered a real word, and thus, the longest word in the english language.

Chemical names should be thrown out of the question. Seeing as they are basically combinations of many different amino acids, proteins, enzymes and the like, they are not really words but more letter combinations.

Antidisestablishmentarianism is a word commonly cited as an example of the longest english word. However, it is shorter than FLOCCI... or PNEUM... which obviously makes it NOT the longest.

Some say smiles is the longest because there is a mile between each S. Also, Someone suggested beleaguered, because a league is longer than a mile. Both are true and interesting interpretations (thank you very much to all of those who suggested these), but the thread was asking for longest by letter count, so neither of these count (yes, I may be too thorough).

A very interesting link to a page about many of the vowel, syllable, etc. debate, as I do not want to bother with them, is: http://www.fun-with-words.com/word_vowels.html

So there you have it. I hope this is definitive as to the longest word in the english language. Feel free to post back, but please give me a sensible response, and this discussion is NOT about place names, foreign words, or chemical names, so do not use those.

Thank you

My personal blog for english

Leungstanley — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:05:58 GMT

Hi, My name is Stanley and come from Hong Kong. I have a blog which written in English. It is welcome for everyone to read it and correct my article. I want to improve my english is different ways.

[url removed by mods, please add it to your profile]

Thanks a lot

stanley

Immense Bibliography?

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:46:41 GMT

I did a report and I must have used about 50 different articles from Wikipedia. I don't think it's plausible to list 50 different bibliographies if it's all from one site, so is there a way to say that I just used Wikipedia or...?