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mrswdk wrote:'New'? Welcome to 2015, NP.
It is kind of weird to feel the need to specify someone's gender when talking about them. Most languages don't. Why not just call everyone 'they' and be done with it?
riskllama wrote:Koolbak wins this thread.
hotfire wrote:a terrible attempt at a pun
betiko wrote:yeah then you didn't study Latin as a kid... that shit is wild... a given noun, pronoun or adjective has a nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative a gender out of three (masculine, feminine, neutral)... if you see where it all comes from; I doubt you could find French Grammar complicated.
German has declinations and gender neutrals as well... yurk. English is problably one of the easiest languges ever, the way you conjugate verbs is the laziest and easiest thing ever. Yeah maybe you've got all the exceptions in preterit tense and all... but I don't thing there's much languages without exceptions everywhere and stuff you need to know by heart because the rules are not always followed.
mrswdk wrote:betiko wrote:yeah then you didn't study Latin as a kid... that shit is wild... a given noun, pronoun or adjective has a nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative a gender out of three (masculine, feminine, neutral)... if you see where it all comes from; I doubt you could find French Grammar complicated.
German has declinations and gender neutrals as well... yurk. English is problably one of the easiest languges ever, the way you conjugate verbs is the laziest and easiest thing ever. Yeah maybe you've got all the exceptions in preterit tense and all... but I don't thing there's much languages without exceptions everywhere and stuff you need to know by heart because the rules are not always followed.
Chinese is the best. If you want to make a verb past tense, just stick a 'le' on the end. Although even then you don't even need to do that if the context makes it obvious you're talking about the past. There's almost no such thing as a plural, you just state the number before the noun if it's important (e.g. 1 dog, 2 dog, 3 dog). No job titles have masculine and feminine variants. I could go on. Chinese efficiency and egalitarianism FTW!
betiko wrote:mrswdk wrote:betiko wrote:yeah then you didn't study Latin as a kid... that shit is wild... a given noun, pronoun or adjective has a nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative a gender out of three (masculine, feminine, neutral)... if you see where it all comes from; I doubt you could find French Grammar complicated.
German has declinations and gender neutrals as well... yurk. English is problably one of the easiest languges ever, the way you conjugate verbs is the laziest and easiest thing ever. Yeah maybe you've got all the exceptions in preterit tense and all... but I don't thing there's much languages without exceptions everywhere and stuff you need to know by heart because the rules are not always followed.
Chinese is the best. If you want to make a verb past tense, just stick a 'le' on the end. Although even then you don't even need to do that if the context makes it obvious you're talking about the past. There's almost no such thing as a plural, you just state the number before the noun if it's important (e.g. 1 dog, 2 dog, 3 dog). No job titles have masculine and feminine variants. I could go on. Chinese efficiency and egalitarianism FTW!
if there are a few dogs, some dogs, many dogs... can you not translate that? you don't always know the amount of things you are talking about.
riskllama wrote:2/10
jonesthecurl wrote:Swahili is a refreshingly simple language. I didn't get that far with it, but when I went on safari in Kenya years ago, I learned enough to get by,
betiko wrote:it's quinceañera, not quinceñera.
quince -> fifteen
años -> years
"the one that turned 15"
"it's like a skanky girl's the one that turned 15" makes absolutely no sense. Your post makes absolutely no sense. Were you trying to be funny?
Dukasaur wrote: That was the night I broke into St. Mike's Cathedral and shat on the Archibishop's desk
mookiemcgee wrote:betiko wrote:it's quinceañera, not quinceñera.
quince -> fifteen
años -> years
"the one that turned 15"
"it's like a skanky girl's the one that turned 15" makes absolutely no sense. Your post makes absolutely no sense. Were you trying to be funny?
Well technically that's Stazi's bad english skills, not Nomads.
I don't know if it's the same in Europe, but Mexican girls celebrate their turning 15 with a massive party referred to as a Quinceañera (similar to a sweet 16 party, or like an fun version of a bar/bat-mitzvah.) So if you read it like,"A skanky girls sweet 16 party" it might make a little more sense to you.
NomadPatriot wrote:mookiemcgee wrote:betiko wrote:it's quinceañera, not quinceñera.
quince -> fifteen
años -> years
"the one that turned 15"
"it's like a skanky girl's the one that turned 15" makes absolutely no sense. Your post makes absolutely no sense. Were you trying to be funny?
Well technically that's Stazi's bad english skills, not Nomads.
I don't know if it's the same in Europe, but Mexican girls celebrate their turning 15 with a massive party referred to as a Quinceañera (similar to a sweet 16 party, or like an fun version of a bar/bat-mitzvah.) So if you read it like,"A skanky girls sweet 16 party" it might make a little more sense to you.
"quinceñera" translates into FortLag in English..
Fort -> a fortified building or strategic position.
Lag -> a period of time between one event or phenomenon and another.
so a skanky girl's strategic position before turning into a Skanky Woman.. ..
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