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  1. Shiny Grimer

    Languages

    I, personally, wouldn't take Italian because it's too similar to French and I've sort of had it with Romance languages. I'm studying Swedish now. Icelandic is also cool but harder and you'll probably get less use for it. If you learn Swedish you'll also be able to understand Danish and Norwegian...
  2. Shiny Grimer

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    Russian adjectival declensions are slightly more of a pain in the ass, but after seeing them so many times I've gotten used to them. Isolating languages ftw. Though are there purely isolating languages with gender?
  3. Shiny Grimer

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    Russian has the easiest gender system of any language I've studied. O_o Mostly because you don't need to remember anything - the ending itself tells you what the gender is. Just remember the few irregular ones like время and you're good to go. Declension in Russian isn't a big deal either - the...
  4. Shiny Grimer

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    Another native Spanish speaker? o: De donde vienes?
  5. Shiny Grimer

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    Ah, that makes sense. I speak the Cuban variety of Spanish and have no contact whatsoever with Mexican Spanish, which is why it hit me as a "wtf."
  6. Shiny Grimer

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    It sounded like he was trying to say "I am a failure at grammar and orthography." In the context he was using it it sounded really strange, though. Comme tout le monde parle français dans se topic, je parlerai français aussi ! Je n'ai pas étudié le français en beaucoup de temps, mais je peux...
  7. Shiny Grimer

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    Southern American English is lovely. I don't know what you all are talking about.
  8. Shiny Grimer

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    Install an international keyboard for fun. I use US-international. It makes typing so much fún. Thãt ïs the jôy of it.
  9. Shiny Grimer

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    The American English R is very rare among languages.
  10. Shiny Grimer

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    In Spanish, English is defined by adding 'ation' to the end of every word. As in "information." In general, American English is marked by its "r" sounds. When people imitate American English, it's basically "rarara McDonalds rererer Burger King." So yeah, lots of "r" sounds and brand names.
  11. Shiny Grimer

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    Nej, jag vill inte stude Svenska. Spanska är en intressant språk. Jag talar Spanska. Svenska är inte användbar språk. Endast svenskar talar svenska.
  12. Shiny Grimer

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    Corrections: Mi gato Bear está en mi cama. El es el segundo gato que he tenido. Mi otra gata se llama Cheesecake. Ella es una puta de mierda. Solo te ama cuando tiene hambre. I know y'all are jealous that Spanish is so easy and accessible as opposed to dying languages (French) or useless...
  13. Shiny Grimer

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    I... didn't mean that they were the kings or even that I thought what they said matters. What's in those style manuals matters because people will judge your grammar based off what's in them. A lot of people think that singular "they" is just plain wrong. Even if they use it in speech and aren't...
  14. Shiny Grimer

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    "It" is the neuter gender i.e. something that has no gender. A gender-neutral pronoun implies that the person being referred to has or may have a gender but that the gender doesn't matter. There's a big difference between the two. You can't use "it" to refer to people because people have gender...
  15. Shiny Grimer

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    "It" isn't gender-neutral; it's lack of gender. You can't talk about someone you don't know as an "it." "Someone's at the door; can you get it for it?" "They" qualifies but some people don't like it. And those people are the ones in charge of making style manuals. :/ And I love singular they...
  16. Shiny Grimer

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    Pepsi is pretty nice.
  17. Shiny Grimer

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    You don't know what unpronounceable is until you've seen the Caucasian languages. Geogrian: ვწითლდები (vts'itldebi) meaning "I blush." I think I'd blush trying to say that in front of a native Georgian. And don't get me started on Salish. Here's a Nuxálk word: xłp̓x̣ʷłtłpłłskʷc̓, meaning "he...
  18. Shiny Grimer

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    "On" when used in books means "one" as in "one should clean one's room". "On" when used colloquially means "we". I was reading this one French book and it's amazing how often they use "on" instead of "nous". So basically, in informal language "on" substitutes "nous". When speaking with any level...
  19. Shiny Grimer

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    Not entirely. They're called masculine and feminine because they use articles that are used to refer to males and female. "El aleman" refers to a male German and "la alemana" refers to a female German. The naming is not arbitrary at all - at least in the Romance languages.
  20. Shiny Grimer

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    I know it's found beyond the Romance languages, but I am most familiar with its use in the Romance languages and didn't want to make any assumptions about it in other languages. As for meaningless, I think perhaps I ought to explain. The subjunctive is used only after certain grammatical...
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