Nemo Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 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 these UP are 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 and 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom S. Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 (edited) Not to mention Screw Up (or its other version that starts with an "F"). Edited December 5, 2008 by Tom S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 And we wonder why English is classified as a 'difficult' language for the foreign-born. In fact, studying foreign languages teaches you much about English itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemo Posted December 6, 2008 Author Share Posted December 6, 2008 Yeah.. it's messed UP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 UP yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punkin Chunker Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 UP yours. It all seemed friendly, up to this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemo Posted December 6, 2008 Author Share Posted December 6, 2008 UP yours. What's UP with you?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
open17 Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 What's UP with you?! Hair crossed UP? Bug UP their ------ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 Seven-UP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyZip Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 Just love it when you people cut-up. But can you answer this one? When you've had it up to here, where is that exactly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nashvillebill Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 i know y'all are up to somethin'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 Man UP and (do whatever)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom S. Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 As the man of steel said: "Up - Up - and Away!". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin Orr Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 Need more time to play with you guys but ... I am up to my ass in alligators with work... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nashvillebill Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 I'd let you play, but it aint up to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMS42 Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 (edited) All this talk about UP is making me dizzy and I'm about to throw UP. Then there is -- Slow UP (does it mean the same as Slow DOWN?). Grow UP, Shut UP (which does not mean the same as Shut DOWN), and I'm UP for anything. Edited December 7, 2008 by DMS42 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JThompson Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 ~Told to me by my fav bartender, she's a cute little 20 something... sigh~ You know why guys like the bottom? Because they only know how to F-UP....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nashvillebill Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 (edited) I've always found cute girls to be kinda stuck up. ETA: maybe I'm just not up to their standards. ETAA:Don't ya love these snowballs of wit that come up on this forum? Edited December 7, 2008 by nashvillebill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemo Posted December 7, 2008 Author Share Posted December 7, 2008 ~Told to me by my fav bartender, she's a cute little 20 something... sigh~You know why guys like the bottom? Because they only know how to F-UP....... Hey, hey! Clean it UP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 Let's not get UPpity about it! Regards here from the lady UP north. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemo Posted December 7, 2008 Author Share Posted December 7, 2008 Cheers from Florida, the only place where you have to go UP north to go south. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Nesbitt Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 This morning I got up out of bed, went into the bathroom and showered up, then went into the kitchen and fried up some sausage for breakfast. Then I got dressed up in my warm clothes and jumped up into the seat of my SUV and drove up to the shooting range. There I went inside and paid up so I could shoot the IDPA match. Then I geared up and went and shot up some ammo on the stages. Afterwards I bellied up to the table and ate up some food while talking with friends. Then I jumped back up into the seat of my SUV and drove up home. When at home I fired up the computer so I could get down with my friends at BE.com. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 Whew, gimme me a moment to catch UP with all this cleverness!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin Orr Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 All this talk about UP is making me dizzy and I'm about to throw UP.Then there is -- Slow UP (does it mean the same as Slow DOWN?). Grow UP, Shut UP (which does not mean the same as Shut DOWN), and I'm UP for anything. Do yourself a favor and do Not confuse the words shut Up with stand Up..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dajarrel Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 ......Do yourself a favor and do Not confuse the words shut Up with stand Up..... I really didn't want to say anything.....I thought I was the only one that had made that mistake dj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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