Something amazing...

[Hermione]

Well, Meg, first of all it's traditionally "Spring in Paris"- I think there's a song with lyrics like that, then there are two 'the's', but . . . I guess you could say 'Paris in the spring' too . . . . I dunno . . .

[Ju-DedoH]

Azn said it, there are two "the"s but we only read one :

Paris in the
the spring

[Hermione]

Teehee I know, I discovered that after I posted the above post . . . oh well. That's what sleepiness does to me . . .

[Gwared]

Same here! I am absolutely hopeless at proof reading!

I'm the oppisite, I spot them all...the worst book I've ever read was "Red Dragon" (from the Hannibal Series by Thomas Harris), that had 8! including two on one page! I was sorely tempted to write to the author!

[hoopsmaster88]

speaking of languages, i found this, it's pretty funny! i didn't put it all up b/c it's really long, but if you wanna see the rest of it here's the site:
http://bertc.com/english.htm#x

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.

[tiggirl]

*sighs wearily*

That was great, it made my tongue tired and my head ache.

[Jotomicron]

Wow... It's very hard not to get tired with that...
I tried the great one, but I couldn't finnish him...

Nice one!

[Meg Boyd]

Hermione: I wasn't trying to quote a song lyric, I was just showing a "Violation of Expectation" exercise from my Psychology book, I had no idea where it came from. And yeah, there are two the's. I wasn't caught up on it when i first saw it because I had seen the same kind of thing in an Optics chapter in Physics class last year, but it was

The Statue of
of Liberty.

How many of you guys caught that one, I'm sure a whole lot more because now the pattern is no longer a violation of your mind's expectations!!!

Have a good day!

[Broccoli]

I actually noticed the two "the"s at once...

[AccioNiffler]

This is so funny that this is here I got this email a few days ago with the jumbled letter thing, and we discussed this in my english class and now have to write a paper like that! I'm glad I read this thread though because I was about to post tthe same thing in my common room!

[Meg Boyd]

I actually noticed the two "the"s at once...

Good Job!!!!!! It really only has too do with the way our brain processes information, some are more careful and perfect and others process more generally.

[Female_alien]

When I started to red I thought someone really illiterate wrote that, but after first sentence I got the point. And that's really amazing!!! English is not my mother tongue and I still understood everything! Awsome!

Geart! (great!)

[pinky p]

woha ttahs aamizng! hmmmmm

i find that incredible... we only need the first and last letters...

[Iluvatar]

He Gweor ca mrahce

Iluvatar Allmighty Ruler of Ea

[Broccoli]

Waht was taht? Srroy, dditn't get it!