English Edit Meaning

1.

a language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary

That word didn't used to be part of english.

2.

A language that only really intelligent people know how to speak correctly.

That person speaks English correctly! Wow, how smart!

See american, english, smart, iq, high

3.

The english language has been tied down gagged and gang raped by skater fags, gangsta's and wiggers who all like to shove slang in its ass.

Dude dat was teh sickest move eva.

Yo was happenin ova dere? Its a pimp stealin our hoes, lets pop a cap in his ass and den steal his bling. Fo Shizzle.

Hmm shizzle i dont think i see that word in an english dictionary, maybe ill check the how to talk like you've never gone to school manual....

See rape, gang, homie, skater, fags

4.

Incredibly powerful and brutal race of people. Renowned worldwide for the ability to fight, hence why they are assiciated with lions, dragons, bulldogs etc, while the rose represents beauty.

Oh my its the english soccer hooligans, run!

See powerful, brutal, rose, fight, Will

5.

spin on a poolball or billiards ball (they are very different games). Comes from the fact that this technique came here from English players when they brought the game and their skillz here

Damn dude, you see the curve on the ball? That shit had madd english on it.

6.

to paraphrase from Pulp Fiction:

Sammy L. Jackson: "Hey brad, where you from?"

Brad:"What?"

SLJ: "What? hmm, do they speak english in what?"

B: "What?"

SLJ:"english, muthafucka, do uoi speak it?"

B: "What?"

SLJ: "Say 'what' again.." brandishes weapon

B: "What?"

SLJ: shoots B in arm.

7.

Either means the people of England or a sadly mangled language. Once belonging to the Germanic Anglo-Saxons, the language has since become influenced by scores of other languages, slowly destroying the English language and its structure and rules.

Shanty (From Gaelic "Sean taigh"("old house")), galore (from Gaelic "gu leòr" ("enough")), whiskey(from Gaelic "uisge" ("water")), hamburger (from "Hamburg steak"), flower (from French "fleur", itself from Latin"flor"), bloom (from German "blum" ("flower")) and countless other words from so many other languages have, for better or worse, steeped into English.

"Let’s face it: English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant or ham in hamburger, neither apple nor pine in pineapple.

English muffins were not invented in England or french fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write, but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce, and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So, one moose, 2 meese? One index, two indices? Is cheese the plural of choose?

If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can the weather be hot as hell one day an cold as hell another?

When a house burns up, it burns down. You fill in a form by filling it out and an alarm clock goes off by going on.

When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it?

Now I know why I flunked my English. It’s not my fault; the silly language doesn’t quite know whether it’s coming or going." -Richard Lederer.