Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCT May 3-7, 2010 (1656-1660)
Lyrical:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 10 May 2010, 09:22 ---Absenteeism and ageing don't count, they're root words ending in E that have a suffix beginning with I added on. But the others, yeah - interesting... So now's when we throw our hands up in the air and agree that English is a fucked up language, right?
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Hey, the "I before E" quote doesn't say anything about root words, but there are plenty more exceptions within the root word as well. Anyway, English is consistently inconsistent. From what I understand, the tonal languages, such as Japanese and Chinese, tend to be the most difficult to learn to speak correctly. I know a smattering of different languages, but I'm not really fluent in any but English. I admire the people who manage to learn another language as an adult!
IsItCold, I remember something about that, too, but not the exact wording. He's not as in-your-face as Pintsize about it for sure, but he did seem sexual/romantic in that story arc.
daryljfontaine:
EDIT: NVM apparently cannot read thread titles.
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Dliessmgg:
--- Quote from: Penquin47 on 10 May 2010, 15:04 ---German has the same three genders. While I only got as far as four cases of nouns, that doesn't mean the other two don't exist in German.
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German has four cases, but nobody knows how to use them correctly or when you can use two with slightly different sentence structure or when there's a special old word that needs an exception. It got worse with the reform around 2000 where nobody knew what was correct afterwards and now you can use what was correct before and after, but the new stuff is advised. That leads to some mixing both. Bleh.
ecstaticjoy:
Looks like she's gonna spill that coffee!!
ndperfesser:
Dental records. Fillings are not genetically predestined. Also, this is last week's thread.
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