Quote Originally Posted by Aedilred View Post
"Kevin's 7th birthday party starts in an hour!"

"It's ok; I've exploded the balloons".
Touché...

Still, that leaves us with at least one redundant term from the trio 'explode', 'inflate' and 'blow up'.

And before anyone mentions 'blowing up' photos, we have 'enlarge' for that.

Still, we have to have something to complicate the language for people learning it, given the relative simplicity of our verbs, our lack of grammatical gender and adjectival agreement (except for oddities like blond[e] and brunet[te]), and our near lack of cases. Pronunciation is a start, but for written language, it's all about the phrasal verbs and redundant vocabulary... *grins evilly*