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English has 12 tenses and a lack of cases and voices: it fills in with prepositions, sentence clauses and vocal tone to make up for this. The only differences between a native English speaker and an educated foreigner are an awareness of idioms and an ability to understand different accents.
The Promethean way: don't study English at all, but learn a classical language. By the time you can construct a sentence in any tense, you will know many times more about the structure of language, and grammar, than 99% of native English speakers.
If you wanted to study Druzism, would you consult a villager on a mountain hillside in the near East, or would you go to the Bodleian, EPHE, Heidelberg, etc.?
Pay no heed to creatively frustrated engineer types or to humanities snobs - they're cut from the same cloth. Take what you want from the salad bar... |
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Bhud wrote: | English has 12 tenses and a lack of cases and voices: it fills in with prepositions, sentence clauses and vocal tone to make up for this. The only differences between a native English speaker and an educated foreigner are an awareness of idioms and an ability to understand different accents.
The Promethean way: don't study English at all, but learn a classical language. By the time you can construct a sentence in any tense, you will know many times more about the structure of language, and grammar, than 99% of native English speakers.
If you wanted to study Druzism, would you consult a villager on a mountain hillside in the near East, or would you go to the Bodleian, EPHE, Heidelberg, etc.?
Pay no heed to creatively frustrated engineer types or to humanities snobs - they're cut from the same cloth. Take what you want from the salad bar... |
Care to translate that into English?
My advice: shout louder. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
THERE'S MILLIONS OF CHICKENSTRIPS OUT THERE! |
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At least we don't have sexes for our words, unlike the French (2) or the Germans (3)....
inb4 bikes, ships, etc.... being called 'She'
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 4 years, 356 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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