A listener from Concord, North Carolina, sent along an example of why learning English as a second language can be so challenging: “Yes, English can be weird. It can be understood through tough, thorough thought though.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Through Tough Thorough Thought”
Here’s a quotation I like that was sent to us from Donald Kasperson of Concord, North Carolina.
Yes, English can be weird.
It can be understood through tough, thorough thought, though.
Now, that might not sound so weird, but if you look at it, if you look at those words all next to each other, they’re really confusing.
I had trouble reading it.
It can be understood through tough, thorough thought, though.
That just makes me sympathize even more with people learning English as a second, third, or fourth language.
We’re here to help, though.
We are.
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