• saltnotsugar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    6 months ago

    I’d like to start a petition to replace all these bad boys with “deez.” For example: Deez Frau ist mit deez Hut…uhhhh…getanzt.

  • Sheepy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    671·
    6 months ago

    This is so painfully close to being Loss. There’s got to be a way to juggle those squares around just right.

  • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    7·
    6 months ago

    English: We have one definitive article: “The”.

    Me: OK, that’s nice and simple.

    Scots Gaelic: Our’s is a little more complicated. We have “An”, which becomes “Am” for words beginning with B and P, for words starting with an h as the second letter (Th, Bh, Mh…) we use "A’ ", and for plurals we “na”, oh and if the first word in a word is a vowel, you slap “h-” onto it.

    Me: OK, a we bit more complex but I can vibe with it, German what’s your Definitive articles?

    German:

    • yetAnotherUser@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      and if the first word in a word is a vowel

      Damn, that sounds a bit complex /j (Thanks for the insight on how Gaelic definitive articles work btw)

    • kopasz7@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      6 months ago

      This actually makes more sense than the arbitrary grammatical genders. (Sure, english has it simpler with, “from where”, “where” and “where to”)

      • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Until you introduce whom (and, occasionally, whose) and native speakers’ brains explode. It’s soooo easy: Whose brain was exploded by whom? His brain was exploded by her, not He brain was exploded by she. Native English speakers do understand cases, they just don’t know that they understand.

        • idiomaddict@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          Yup, I’m a native English speaker who teaches German to mostly native English speakers, and it’s always a fun moment when someone in class realizes that we have cases in English, too (don’t worry, I do tell them, if nobody speaks up, I just give them the chance to figure it out themselves first).

      • idiomaddict@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        6 months ago

        Thither and thence/hither and hence/whither and whence are also counterparts to there/here/where, for older and/or more literary English

    • idiomaddict@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      I’m a nonnative German teacher and holy fuck is this helpful. I learned each of these separately and at different times with great effort, but I will be sharing this with my students, because it’s way easier to remember with this visualization. Thank you!!