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                                   speaking on the topic impact of English language on Kannada

contradictory statements

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Here are a variety of proverbs almost all English speakers are familiar with. We regard these words of wisdom with reverence, but some of these sayings look specious when weighed against each other.

Conflicting Proverbs

Actions speak louder than words.		The pen is mightier than the sword.
Knowledge is power.		Ignorance is bliss.
Look before you leap.		He who hesitates is lost.
A silent man is a wise one.		A man without words is a man without thoughts.
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.		Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Clothes make the man.		Don't judge a book by its cover.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.		Better safe than sorry.
Money talks.		Talk is cheap.
The only thing constant is change.		The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Two heads are better than one.		If you want something done right, do it yourself.
Many hands make light work.		Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Great minds think alike.		Fools seldom differ.
Birds of a feather flock together.		Opposites attract.
The bigger, the better.		The best things come in small packages.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.		Out of sight, out of mind.
What will be, will be.		Life is what you make it.
Cross your bridges when you come to them.		Forewarned is forearmed.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.		One man's meat is another man's poison.
With age comes wisdom.		Out of the mouths of babes and suckling come all wise sayings.
The more, the merrier		Two's company; three's a crowd.

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                                                               -Maulya and Samarth  in action-

TONGUE TWISTERS

1. There was a fisherman named Fisher
who fished for some fish in a fissure.
Till a fish with a grin,
pulled the fisherman in.
Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher.

2. Luke Luck likes lakes.
Luke's duck likes lakes.
Luke Luck licks lakes.
Luck's duck licks lakes.
Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes.
Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.

3. One-one was a race horse.
Two-two was one too.
One-one won one race.
Two-two won one too.

4. What a terrible tongue twister,
what a terrible tongue twister,
what a terrible tongue twister..

5. How much ground would a groundhog hog,

If a groundhog could hog ground?

A groundhog would hog all the ground

 He could hog, if a groundhog could hog ground
.

6. Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze.
That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.

7. How many cans can a cannibal nibble
if a cannibal can nibble cans?
As many cans as a cannibal can nibble
if a cannibal can nibble cans?

8. Why do you cry, Willy?
Why do you cry?
Why, Willy?
Why, Willy?
Why, Willy? Why?

9. What did you have for breakfast?
- rubber balls and liquor!
What did you have for lunch?
- rubber balls and liquor!
What did you have for dinner?
- rubber balls and liquor!
What do you do when your sister comes home?
- rubber balls and liquor!

10. Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
Spread it thick, say it quick!
Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
Spread it thicker, say it quicker!
Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
Don't eat with your mouth full!

11. If you can't can any candy cane,
how many candy cans can a candy canner can
if he can can candy cans ?

12. I'm not the fig plucker,
nor the fig plucker's son,
but I'll pluck figs
till the fig plucker comes.

13. I'm a sock cutter and I cut socks.
I'm a sock cutter and I cut socks.
I'm a sock cutter and I cut socks
.

14.As he gobbled the cakes on his plate,
the greedy ape said as he ate,
the greener green grapes are,
the keener keen apes are
to gobble green grape cakes,
they're great!

15. A fly and flea flew into a flue,
said the fly to the flea 'what shall we do?'
'let us fly' said the flea
said the fly 'shall we flee'
so they flew through a flaw in the flue

RIDDLES IN ENGLISH

RIDDLES

These brain teasers are actually just puzzles that need lateral thinking, which are meant to bring a smile to your face - hopefully.

The answers are given below.

1. What is as big as you are and yet does not weigh anything?

2. Two cannibals were chatting as they had their dinner. One complained that he really quite disliked his new mother-in-law. What was the advice given to him by his companion?

3. Paul’s height is six feet, he’s an assistant at a butcher’s shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?

4. What types of words are these: Madam, civic, eye, level.

5. What ends everything always?

6. When you have me, you feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you don’t have me. What am I?

7. A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed three days, and rode out again on Friday. How did he do that?

8. The person who makes it has no need for it. The person who purchases it does not use it. The person who does use it does not know he or she is. What is it?

9It is an insect and the first part of its name is the name of another insect. What is it?

10. Fathers and 2 sons go fishing. Each of them catches one fish. So why do they bring home only 3 fishes?

11. Which is the longest word in English?

12. You can hold it without using your hands or arms. What is it?

13. What do the letter‘t’ and an island have in common?

14. Which is the word in English that has nine letters, and remains a word at each step even when you remove one letter from it, right up to a single letter remaining List each letter as you remove them, along with the resulting word at each step.

15. Complete this sequence of letters: o, t, t, f, f, s, s, _, _, _.

Answers:

1. Your shadow.

2. So just finish your vegetables.

3. Meat.

4. They are palindromes; they read the same both ways.

5. The alphabet ‘g’.

6. A secret.

7. His horse’s name is Friday.

8. A coffin.

9. Beetle.

10. Because the fishing group comprises of a grandfather, his son, and his son’s son – hence just three people.

11. Smiles - Because a ‘mile’ exists between the two S’s. While that is a good answer to the riddle, the actual longest English word is 'floccinaucinihilipilification'- which means ‘to describe something as worthless, or turning something into being worthless by deprecating it.'

12. Your breath.

13. Both are in water - WaTer.

14. ‘Startling’ is the word. Begin by removing ‘i’, which makes it ‘staring’, then take away the ‘t’, making it ‘staring’, and so on – string; sing; sin; in; and, I.

15. e, n, t – The first letter of the numbers from one to ten.

FUN WITH LANGUAGE

FUN WITH LANGUAGE

READ IT FROM BOTH THE ENDS (palindromes)

Lepers repel.

Let O'Hara gain an inn in a Niagara hotel.

Lived on Decaf; faced no Devil.

Lonely Tylenol.

Ma is a nun, as I am.

Ma is as selfless as I am.

Madam, I'm Adam.

Madam in Eden, I'm Adam.

Marge lets Norah see Sharon's telegram.

May a moody baby doom a yam.

Meet animals; laminate 'em.

Mr. Owl ate my metal worm.

Murder for a jar of red rum

LONG WORDS IN ENGLISH

Here are four weird and wonderful long words that you may not have seen before:

floccinaucinihilipilification, which means ‘the action of judging something to be worthless’

antidisestablishmentarianism, which means ‘opposition to removing state recognition of

an established church’

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is a lung disease caused by

inhaling very fine dust

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, a word which was featured in the film Mary Poppins

PHOTO GALLERY

GREAT MORNING !

IN PONDICHERRY-WITH GERMAN

CRIB COMPETITION

STEERING THE YOUTH PARLIAMENT

WITH GUEST FROM DAVANAGERE UNIVERSITY

BEING WITH YOU ALL  IS A FUN 

AS A GUEST ON ENGINEERS' DAY

MY,SELF COMPOSED POEMS

BEING LITERATE

Eureka! I am literate in
Computer now.
t'was not the  same very long ago
I am not unmindful of it,
There were the days i went others then
But its changed a lot 
A trifle was herculean task for me then
But child's play now.
Before everything was a mystery
But now it’s in the pages of history

NISHCHAL

Naughty thy name is ‘Nichhi’,

So active and mischievous.

You are perfect in excuses,

But really it muses.

Your world is different,

You’re not constant.

Novice feels you very naughty,

But really you’re so gritty.

Dancing, teasing, yelling,

Are indispensible to you.

For study you’re serious too

Favorite to mom and dad

But have never been bad

Long live dear, gods bless you ever.

MY BETTER HALF

My dear ‘misty’

You are so hearty

Sans you I am hollow

‘ll be on heels to follow

So busy round the clock

Never bother the chores of folk

Thee art the queen of my world

But thy liberty is not checked

At times hard nut to crack

But your love never gets lock

Too small in age

Sagacious like a sage

Thy presence makes me relaxed

Absence forces me to be perplexed

At will you are indomitable

But patience un scalable

You seldom get fret

But you are the best.