If I wrote a textbook, it'd be called English is Mean.
As a teacher, parent, and ESOL tutor, I often told students, kids, and tutees (?!) that English is mean. Here are a few of my favorite examples.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Drink, drank, drunk.
"It's unpleasantly like being drunk."
-"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
"You ask a glass of water."
-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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