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malaise

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Reply to highplainsdem (Reply #32)

Sun Feb 15, 2026, 03:24 PM

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The most not fun sentence in English for folks learning English 😀 [View all] malaise Feb 15 OP

;-{)....... Goonch Feb 15 #1

;-{) I borrowed one of your hearts🤣 Goonch Feb 15 #2

Hehehehe malaise Feb 15 #4

Nicely played malaise Feb 15 #3

"Buffalo" is the name of a ruminant mammal and a city in NY state. It can also mean "to bully, obstruct". eppur_se_muova Feb 15 #5

ROFL malaise Feb 15 #6

This message was self-deleted by its author malaise Feb 15 #7

Some punctuation might help. :-) TheRickles Feb 15 #8

Ain't that the truth. n/t malthaussen Feb 15 #11

That's the sentence I'd like to drag my seventh-grade teacher to and say... malthaussen Feb 15 #9

I have coarse and fine sea salt. After skipping on the coarse I thought to myself "fine is fine". twodogsbarking Feb 15 #10

LOL malaise Feb 15 #14

Ah but goose has yet another meaning. If you get goosed more than once is it geesed? twodogsbarking Feb 15 #17

Love it malaise Feb 15 #18

Do you really want to know? Chellee Feb 15 #29

I always want to learn something malaise Feb 15 #31

You're welcome Chellee Feb 15 #37

That letter is silent until I sez it aint! paleotn Feb 15 #12

French is the worst.. Permanut Feb 15 #28

Perhaps learning to read English. Igel Feb 15 #13

Spelled "ghoti" sounds exactly like "fish." Kid Berwyn Feb 15 #15

Haha malaise Feb 15 #16

When I was living in Catalunya, it was a requirement to learn the one about the setze jutges (sixteen judges) DFW Feb 15 #19

Haha malaise Feb 15 #20

When my daughters were very little I taught them the first part of that DFW Feb 15 #21

Clearly not wimps malaise Feb 15 #22

Here is the ultimate test of all time (you have to click on "watch on youtube" ) DFW Feb 15 #23

LOL malaise Feb 15 #24

5.8 million views DFW Feb 15 #25

Well I know every word for this one malaise Feb 15 #26

These words were part of one of the very very early I Love Lucy episodes sdfernando Feb 15 #27

Fascinating malaise Feb 15 #30

Interesting video! If you'd like to know how English ended up with those spellings/pronunciations, I posted highplainsdem Feb 15 #32

Thanks malaise Feb 15 #33

You're welcome! I love the OED. Have the compact edition I bought about highplainsdem Feb 15 #34

Have mine right here malaise Feb 15 #35

Great! highplainsdem Feb 15 #36