Posted on 02/13/2024 7:21:59 AM PST by OneVike
is reverse shoulder replacement the same as having your shoulder removed?
in keeping with the perplexity of the English Languish.
get better.
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Okay. I suspect someone who goes through all that NEEDS a break from FR!
Good luck, hope you recover soon.
Hey, good luck with your shoulder recovery. My hairdresser had to have a shoulder replacement surgery last summer, but she was back at work and better than ever a couple of months later, no small feat. She was highly motivated to do the physical therapy, and I think we can say now that her surgery was a complete success. I hope and pray for the same for you.
Oh yes, it is :-)
I can warmly recommend learning Old English first (i.e. English as it was before 1066), and you will feel very much at home in modern German. ;-)
Old English and Old Low German were so close as to be mutually intelligible.
Even if you speak Old High German, you will be able to understand much of Old English and vice versa.
This is true:)
If I remember correctly, German shares the ability to form very long compound nouns with Chinese, which is not possible in most other languages.
There are a few other grammatical similarities between both languages, which is amazing, since they are not in any way related...
Very sorry to hear about your tribulations.
I wish you all the best and a speedy recovery and, of course His rich blessings for you and your dear ones :-)
You’re one up on all of us. It’s an uphill battle sorting it all out. I’ll going to remain upbeat through it all.
Good luck with your recovery.
Did you ever read Mark Twain’s passage on German ? Hysterically funny.
Yes, sir, I have read the book, and just like this passage, it really is outrageously funny. Thank you for linking it so that anyone interested, including myself, can read it again😀
This really is such an enjoyable discussion, especially since I minored in linguistics at university, back then when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. To this day, I have a huge interest in everything pertaining to languages.🙂
That is a great strength of the English language: being able to express very subtle nuances.
And Mr. Yardstick was right to say that most of the shorter words in English have Germanic roots.
Churchill‘s famous speech „we shall fight on the beaches“, for example, is a fine example of an English text in which many monosyllabic, impactful words are deployed though this is, contrary to what I‘ve read somewhere, not intentional, but a coincidence.
He was a masterful orator, taking great care over his speeches, writing and arranging them in poetical form to define the rhythm and tone of their delivery.
I absolutely agree.
It is relatively easy to get a working knowledge of English, yes, but as your learning advances, it gets more and more difficult.
The richness and fine nuances of English vocabulary are one, the orthography is another difficult matter, as well as the highly sophisticated system of tenses which the English language has at its disposal, present, past, future, progressive, simple…and on and on. An extremely intricate, complex system indeed. Admirably so but easy…not so much 😀
Me too. Especially Ancient Ones. Took Ancient Greek in College and Latin in High School. Struggling with hieroglyphs. Had German in college and Spanish in High Scool zlso.
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That is really great😀
I sudied history with minors in English (incl. Medieval English) and geography, intending to become a professor - but the boots were a bit too big for men, and the fact that I was diagnosed with high-functioning autism (though not until later in my life) didn‘t help my academic career either😉
So you studied Spanish, too, unfortunately I have very little skill in it. French, Latin and Italian are easier for men, and I wish I had taken Ancient Greek at my school. At the moment I‘m trying to learn a bit of Polish- Poland is Germany‘s second biggest and most important neighbor after all, just after France🙂
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