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« Reply #2370 on: May 10, 2016, 02:05:04 PM » |
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Yeah....I don't know French. I took Deutsch.
I took English .... just because i wanted to purchase a US saber  |
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« Reply #2371 on: May 10, 2016, 02:44:26 PM » |
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I think English would be easier to learn if our many synonyms weren't used so interchangeably.
Unfortunately, it's one of those languages where the context needs to determine what words are used.
Like in Japanese, baka has the literal translation of "stupid", but to actually call someone baka is a way more insulting in Japanese, than calling someone stupid in English.
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« Reply #2372 on: May 10, 2016, 03:11:10 PM » |
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I think English would be easier to learn if our many synonyms weren't used so interchangeably.
Unfortunately, it's one of those languages where the context needs to determine what words are used.
Like in Japanese, baka has the literal translation of "stupid", but to actually call someone baka is a way more insulting in Japanese, than calling someone stupid in English.
I do not know if English is hard to learn. The fact is that English is used by many people ... so "correct English" is hard to define for a foreigner like me  I lived one year in Windsor (Ontario) and many colleagues from England tell me that i make a lot of error when speaking ... but my Canadian colleagues tell me that my english is correct |
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« Reply #2373 on: May 10, 2016, 03:27:19 PM » |
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French was a nightmare for me. I can read it. I can even understand it. However, don't ask me to reply to it in any form because my brain just turns to word salad. Conjugate this, dammit.  |
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« Reply #2374 on: May 10, 2016, 03:46:29 PM » |
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French was a nightmare for me. I can read it. I can even understand it. However, don't ask me to reply to it in any form because my brain just turns to word salad. Conjugate this, dammit. Exactly!! French is a word salad The base is celtic with strong roman and greek influences... then, you can add germanic (and a little of persian, arabic and indian) words from the barbarian invasions of the 4th to 7th centuries (including the Franc invasion) to obtain the salad. For the dressing of the salad, you take the language reform of the XVIth century that added rules on rules on rules ... I really think that English is easier to learn  |
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« Reply #2375 on: May 10, 2016, 03:57:28 PM » |
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Exactly!! French is a word salad The base is celtic with strong roman and greek influences... then, you can add germanic (and a little of persian, arabic and indian) words from the barbarian invasions of the 4th to 7th centuries (including the Franc invasion) to obtain the salad. For the dressing of the salad, you take the language reform of the XVIth century that added rules on rules on rules ... I really think that English is easier to learn I've just heard from those who've had to learn ESL and those that teach it, that English is difficult. Hell, even a vast majority of those that "speak" it as a native language, can't get it exactly right. Just visit southern Indiana. It's a grammar teacher's worst nightmare. |
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« Reply #2376 on: May 10, 2016, 04:00:48 PM » |
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I've just heard from those who've had to learn ESL and those that teach it, that English is difficult. Hell, even a vast majority of those that "speak" it as a native language, can't get it exactly right. Just visit southern Indiana. It's a grammar teacher's worst nightmare.
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« Reply #2377 on: May 10, 2016, 04:11:13 PM » |
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English "borrows" from so many other languages, I can certainly see how it would be confusing to learn!
Oh, crap. I'm supposed to be venting . . . . um.
I really despise the phrase "Netflix and chill." If I'm watching Netflix, I am actually chilling. Don't touch me when I am obviously engrossed in a very important documentary about the evolution of the paper airplane or I will make you sorry.
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« Reply #2378 on: May 10, 2016, 04:13:49 PM » |
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Venting.............right............. The weather is shellty. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR (mean frowny face)  |
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« Reply #2379 on: May 10, 2016, 04:26:47 PM » |
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Venting.............right............. The weather is shellty. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR (mean frowny face) Okay, the filter ruined that for me because now I'm just over here like:  |
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« Reply #2380 on: May 10, 2016, 04:39:23 PM » |
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Okay, the filter ruined that for me because now I'm just over here like: I always thought that was a collie. |
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« Reply #2381 on: May 10, 2016, 04:41:09 PM » |
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I always thought that was a collie.
Sheltie. It's like Collie-lite. |
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« Reply #2382 on: May 10, 2016, 05:48:37 PM » |
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So collie but scaled down?
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« Reply #2383 on: May 10, 2016, 06:16:39 PM » |
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So collie but scaled down?
There's your size difference.  |
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« Reply #2384 on: May 10, 2016, 06:59:52 PM » |
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There's your size difference. "Cripes, he's tiny....Wait a minute. He kinda looks like a baby." That's not Collie Lite, that's Collie Mini-Me. |
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