This happened yesterday when I went for a routine medical at my GP’s:
Me: I’ve got an appointment to see Nurse at 12 o’clock.
Receptionist: Have you bought a urine sample?
At that point I was really tempted to say, ‘No, I made my own,’ with a smile but thought it would have been condescending or pedantic…and I’m not like that.
I used to have problems with’ brought’ and ‘bought’ myself until I saw a simple sign in a school where I was doing a charity presentation. It read:
If you bring it, you brought it – if you buy it, you bought it.
Whoever invented those two words could have been a little more creative and not chosen words that sound similar, for the benefit of illiterate people such as myself and the receptionist.
the english language has to be one of the most fuct of all. incredibly complicated, yet spreading around the globe.
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Yea I have to say I was gonna say the same thing as Eric!
Thanx for visiting my blog you mental 10 year old!!
I’m learning German. Actually, it’s more of a refresher course: you tend to forget things you learnt fifteen years before.
French, I don’t have too many problems with as we get some French traders in town on the market and it’s always fun to use their language even if you do get the verb forms and other grammar wrong.
Both are interesting languages though.