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#language is fun

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#language is fun #japanese

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I love the term “loanwords” because it implies that you intend to give them back.

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people understand that Spanish speakers speak different dialects of the Spanish language but don’t understand that black people speak a dialect of the English language

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honestly christianity really hit the jackpot with "jesus christ" rolling off the tongue as an expletive so well. the number one problem with fantasy settings is that whatever names you come up with to take in vain will never hit as well as "jesus christ"

#language is fun #blasphemy is fun

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#language is fun #i haven't seen the last video yet

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#Language is fun

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I’m in the woods placing cardboard cutouts of morels in the leaf litter to trick and bamboozle people

#mushrooms #I would be devastated

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#language is fun

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#language is fun #japanese #Literal language is the best #Stolen from facebook #Forgot to add that tag and it looks like tumblr won't let me add it #https://m.facebook.com/reel/3643384482603997/

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#language is fun #Abbreviations can be such a pain

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The thought of having to navigate this is very stressful to me

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Learning languages is SO FUN right up until you need to learn conjugation and then suddenly it turns sour real fucking fast

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NO ONE knows how to use thou/thee/thy/thine and i need to see that change if ur going to keep making “talking like a medieval peasant” jokes. /lh

They play the same roles as I/me/my/mine. In modern english, we use “you” for both the subject and the direct object/object of preposition/etc, so it’s difficult to compare “thou” to “you”.

So the trick is this: if you are trying to turn something Olde, first turn every “you” into first-person and then replace it like so:

“I” →  “thou”

“Me” →  “thee”

“My” →  “thy”

“Mine” →  “thine”

Let’s suppose we had the sentences “You have a cow. He gave it to you. It is your cow. The cow is yours”.

We could first imagine it in the first person-

“I have a cow. He gave it to me. It is my cow. The cow is mine”.

And then replace it-

“Thou hast a cow. He gave it to thee. It is thy cow. The cow is thine.”

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lydia davis

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when your grammar accidentally transfers

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