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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: M16 on 29 October 2008, 07:35:30
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Lovers of the English language might enjoy this. It is yet another example of why people learning English have trouble with the language. Learning the nuances of English makes it a difficult language. (But then, that's probably true of many languages)
There is a two-letter word in English that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is 'UP.' It is listed in the dictionary as being used as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v].
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 a 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 does not 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 and the last thing you do at night?
U . . . P
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I like that. :y
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Good stuff!
Keep it UP.
And if you go out today, wrap UP.
Or put UP or shut UP.
Got to go. Time's UP. ::)
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sorry not got time for this.
Big break up at work ;D
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Went UP the pub last night and got p1ssed UP. Threw UP, got picked UP by the police and got wound UP so then I got banged UP. What a c0ck UP!!
Not really, just a wind UP. ;) :D
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Like that one... ;D ;D ;D
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Went UP the pub last night and got p1ssed UP. Threw UP, got picked UP by the police and got wound UP so then I got banged UP. What a c0ck UP!!
Not really, just a wind UP. ;) :D
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So things are on the UP, Bob?
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Very interesting and makes one think!! :y :y
Perhaps Debs can tell us if there is the same type of word used in the same manner in other languages :-? :-?
Anyway I am starting to well up with emotion as the day is almost up and I have yet to dish up the dinner for some friends, who are coming up to my flat to see me, after travelling all the way up from Upton, that's if their car doesn't give up the ghost, then I will chuck up with nerves and take up a noble cause before locking up before shooting up, and then getting my boyfriend to get it up! :D ;)
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Up yours you clever so & so, no telling what you get up to but that's up to you.
Anyway, onward & upward.!!!!!!!!!!!! ::) ;D :y
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Quite good that is.
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Good work and helpful.. :y
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Good work and helpful.. :y
;D ;D ;D :y
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Very interesting and makes one think!! :y :y
Perhaps Debs can tell us if there is the same type of word used in the same manner in other languages :-? :-?
Anyway I am starting to well up with emotion as the day is almost up and I have yet to dish up the dinner for some friends, who are coming up to my flat to see me, after travelling all the way up from Upton, that's if their car doesn't give up the ghost, then I will chuck up with nerves and take up a noble cause before locking up before shooting up, and then getting my boyfriend to get it up! :D ;)
:o :o :o
Lizzie, you baaaad girl!! ;D ;D ;D