• Jakylla@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    While at the same time:

    Perplex woman with maths problems over her face
    Japanese: 私 (Watashi, Atashi, Watakushi, Atakushi), 僕 (Boku), 俺 (Ore)

    Multiple monkeys searching banana on a tv show
    French: Je
    Italian: Io
    German: Ich
    English: I

    • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Imagine a language talking the hardest part of every sentence

      • Japanese pronoms

      • german adjectives

      • french verbs

      • Counting system from whatever asian language separating male/female/animals/objects

      • Czech declination

      • lugalEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        What’s the big problem which (our) German adjectives? Is it about the weak and strong declination and sometimes they are undecliend or what’s the point?

        • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          What’s the big problem which (our) German adjectives? Is it about the weak and strong declination and sometimes they are undecliend or what’s the point?

          IMO german adjective are the hard part of the language . Der/den/dem/des Die/die/der/der das/das/dem/des fine I can leave with it.

          But the way the adjective sometimes change with declination and sometimes doesn’ t always confuse me as hell Ich fahre das Blaue auto, Ich fahre ein blaues auto Ich habe im blauen Auto meine crush gekuesst Ich rüfe sie wegen des blauen autos an Also, unlike der/die/das I cannot just listen to the person I talk with and re-use the same gender

          • lugalEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Maybe that helps: there is always one (or rather never more than one) strongly declined element before the noun.

            Ich fahre das blaue Auto. (Definite articles are always strong)

            Ich fahre ein blaues Auto. (Indefinite articles are most often weak so the adjective is strong)

            Eines schönen Tages. (I said most often. Genitive singular indefinite articles are strong, obviously)

            Thinking in terms of strong and weak declination is key. But maybe it’s obvious. It wasn’t for me when I learned about it in linguistic lectures in university.

    • lugalEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I mean, I get different 2nd person pronouns, but 1st??

  • exapsy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    And china too. I mean, it has its weird things like “Zebenshu” which means is “this book” while for other objects you usually say “zhege” instead of “zheben” and there are some other … ah nvm … fuck Chinese. They’re a weird language.

    edit: Chinese - I mean Mandarin. I don’t know how Cantonese or Old chinese/Taiwanese relate to that fact.