April 22, 200916 yr comment_8065 Subject: Fw: Are You UP For This?... >I think you'll get a kick out of this one...I did. >> > > Subject: FW: Are You UP For This?... > > Lovers of the English language might enjoy this. It is yet another > example of why people learning English have trouble with the language. > Learning the nuances of English makes it a difficult language. (But > then, that's probably true of many languages.) > > There is a two-letter word in English that perhaps has more meanings > than any other two-letter word, and that word is 'UP.' It is listed > in the dictionary as being used as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or > [v]. > > It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of > the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? > > At a meeting, why does a topic come UP ? Why do we speak UP, and why > are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to > write UP a report? We call UP our friends and we use it to brighten > UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP > the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. > > At other times the little word has a real special meaning. People stir > UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP > excuses. > > To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special. > > And this up is confusing: > > A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. > > We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We > seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP! > > To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in > the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 > of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions > > If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many > ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't > give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. > > When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP . When the sun > comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it wets UP the > earth. When it does not rain for awhile, things dry UP. > > One could go on & on, but I'll wrap it UP , for now ........my time > is UP , so time to shut UP! > > Oh...one more thing: > > What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do > at night? U P > > Don't screw up. Send this on to everyone you look up in your address book. > > > Now I'll hush up. Report
Subject: Fw: Are You UP For This?...
>I think you'll get a kick out of this one...I did.
>>
>
> Subject: FW: Are You UP For This?...
>
> Lovers of the English language might enjoy this. It is yet another
> example of why people learning English have trouble with the language.
> Learning the nuances of English makes it a difficult language. (But
> then, that's probably true of many languages.)
>
> There is a two-letter word in English that perhaps has more meanings
> than any other two-letter word, and that word is 'UP.' It is listed
> in the dictionary as being used as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or
> [v].
>
> It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of
> the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?
>
> At a meeting, why does a topic come UP ? Why do we speak UP, and why
> are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to
> write UP a report? We call UP our friends and we use it to brighten
> UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP
> the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.
>
> At other times the little word has a real special meaning. People stir
> UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP
> excuses.
>
> To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.
>
> And this up is confusing:
>
> A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.
>
> We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We
> seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!
>
> To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in
> the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4
> of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions
>
> If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many
> ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't
> give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
>
> When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP . When the sun
> comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it wets UP the
> earth. When it does not rain for awhile, things dry UP.
>
> One could go on & on, but I'll wrap it UP , for now ........my time
> is UP , so time to shut UP!
>
> Oh...one more thing:
>
> What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do
> at night? U P
>
> Don't screw up. Send this on to everyone you look up in your address book.
>
>
> Now I'll hush up.