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does any other language have the terrible inflections like English? I don't mean the lack but the complete mess to the point where inflection nearly makes no sense.
Jaxon Hernandez
English inflections are fairly regular within groups of words with the same root languages, no? Could you elaborate a bit on this for me? But also, no, to my knowledge no language is quite as messy as English specifically because it does pull from so many sources
Nathaniel Robinson
>the complete mess to the point where inflection nearly makes no sense What do you mean?
Brody Diaz
things like; diction underling doggie faultive vicious
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Parker Adams
Are you talking about which syllable typically gets emphasized in speech? If so, I still don't understand what you're asking about even in the context of that list of words.
Nathan Moore
if you asked a gaelic speaker what -ach does they would instantly say it changes a adjective to a noun. if you asked a latin speaker what -o did they would say it changes the verb to first person. but if you ask an English speaker what -ous, -ive, -tion … does they would not be able to speak.
Jaxson Reed
>Niveau Eins 1. Sie fingen den Sklaven. 2. Er werde sterben im Amphitheater.. 3. Gefährliche Tiere waren da.
>Niveau Zwei 4. Der großte Löwe nähte im langsam. 5. Jedes sag wie das Tier freundlich die Hand des Sklaves ?-te. 6. Der Kaiser fragte ihm, zu erklären was passiert hat.
Brody Bailey
I'm sorry what?
Anthony Morales
>Continua, o meu filho perdido, haverá paz quando acabares Continua, meu filho >É verdade ou é um sonho, não há nada que está no meio Ou é verdade ou é um sonho, não há nada no meio >Se eu partir amanhã, ainda te lembrarias de mim? ainda te lembrarás de mim >Sai com a primeira luz, vai enquanto ainda vés a lua vês >seguir o passeio desconhecido e ouvir as cantigas que a noite canta o trilho desconhecido >O Billy saiu da sua casa com um dólar no bolso e uma cabeça cheia de sonhos, a dizer "numa maneira, num lugar, tem que ser melhor que isto" de alguma maneira, nalgum lugar, tem que... >Lá nas profundidades de Louisiana ao pé de nova Orleans, ficou um cabine feito com terra e madeira e lá viveu um rapaz rural que se chama Jonny B. Goode nas profundezas do Louisiana, ao pé de Nova Orleães... >muito longe na mata entre as sempre verdes A tradução de evergreen é "folha perene" ou "planta de folha perene", pelo que nunca iria ficar bem nesta frase >ficou um cabine feito com terra e madeira e lá viveu um rapaz rural que se chama Jonny B. Goode ficava uma cabine feita de terra e madeira,
Leo Diaz
look
Samuel Torres
...
Jeremiah Adams
busy studying what?
Brody Edwards
Their ability to answer would depend entirely on their education level (and quality). And not being able to explain it doesn't mean they don't have an implicit understanding that -ous means it's an adjectival form/" of the nature of". e.g. vicious = vice+ous, but then the meaning shifted somewhat over time to be more specifically about aggression
I still really don't understand your point here desu
Caleb Torres
fucking word filters it's my own fault t b h
Michael Ward
the point is you cants use it to go "Dogous" or "Woodous" so it isn't very usefull.
Dominic Richardson
Well, wood is Germanic in origin so it wouldn't make much sense to throw a French ending on it. Like I said, there's consistency within language-origin groups, native speakers implicitly understand which endings "sound right" with most words, and English is HIGHLY modular and in casual speech people shove different affixes on roots all the time to make "new words" and communicate a particular idea. One of my favorite things about English is how it functions like a Lego set to such a degree
Parker Davis
and to follow up on this, "woodous" sounds wrong to a native but "wood-like" or "woodsy" or "woodish" are all perfectly understandable if not technically correct. it's just that certain endings are more universally applicable, such as "-like" which can be thrown on the end of nearly anything to communicate the same thing as "ous"
Dylan Barnes
i'd started learning japanese a couple of years ago and after a year of studying when i became a wagie, i almost completely stopped practicing. it was impossible to keep studying after work, i wasn't that tired but i had no desire at all. now i'm neeting and studying again. that fucking blue collar sweatshop had been incessantly gnawing away at me. it's all useless, though, as i won't learn the language to make a living from it, and i will have to go back to wageslaving. it's quite sad.
Kevin Murphy
that's what I am meaning. you cant just use one inflection for all the words but have to be very careful. too silly.
Jayden Sullivan
OK :)
Sebastian Williams
bump
Parker Richardson
but it isn't just english that's like that? german has -chen and -lein which are both diminutive suffixes but words take one or the other ending somewhat arbitrarily (afaik). you'd never call a bread roll a Brötlein for example or spanish has suffixes that mean different things depending on the word or context they're in (like -ón/-ona). there are also multiple suffixes that accomplish the same thing (such as increasing size/intensity or nouning a verb) with, at most, shades of connotational difference that wouldn't be apparent to most non-native speakers or would simply sound wrong if you chose one over another
