Posted on 02/13/2024 7:21:59 AM PST by OneVike
I love that scene!
It is a rather harsh sentence.
English is derived from many languages.
An Italian word quite often has an English counterpart.
A German word quite often has an English counterpart.
This makes it fairly easy for foreigners to speak English.
I can read German, Spanish and French fairly well, but I can’t speak them to a standard that a German, Spainard or Frenchwoman would find acceptable.
femme [wife, woman]
The word makes life for a philandering Frenchman easy.
And yes, English is a mess. Much of this is caused by it being an amalgam of a lot of other languages that have different structures and usages of their words.
I find the history of English interesting, and often watch videos on the topic. "Rob Words" has several very good videos about how quirky English is.
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No I did not. it has been in a file for almost 10 years. I did add the list to it, and some to thee content at the beginning, but I did not write it.
I miss living in a world where I didn’t have to press 1 for English.
No. Its rather hard. BUT it has a highly expansive vocabulary and allows nuances of meaning not presentbin most other languages and its structurally adapted to more easily incorporate words from other languages.
Only in English can you pare a pair of pears.
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary
— James Nicoll, rec.arts.sf-lovers
“All the faith he had had had had no effect on the outcome of his life.”
But at least each meaning is represented with a different character. So memorize a couple, maybe three, thousand characters and you're good. /s
Events are sanctioned (good)
people and entities are sanctioned (bad)
This is too new. I am still reflecting on the victory by the Kansas City Chieves.
Yet we have only one word for some certain things, like snow. Our heavily-used word “love” should but often doesn’t end up encompassing the highest form thereof, that being “charity”.
How did he clarify-—by giving her a big smooch?
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