I took Spanish, French and Latin over the years.
Did well in the first 2.
Latin kicked my ass (after 8 years of learning the first 2) and I still hold a grudge.
I love medieval parish documents were they use squiggly little contractions to denote the correct ending of the word, because it suggests loads of clerks and priests weren’t totally sure about the correct endings in different cases.
Yes. Although in many circumstances “words and punctuation matter” is also a good thing. Do I care if people mix up there, their, they’re? Not enough to correct them on SM obviously. Does it matter in a legal document or a PhD thesis? Hmmm. Probably!
Yes. Grammatical rules do, in the main, make things easier to *read*. So if you’re writing for an audience, and you care that they understand what you’re saying, the rules are more helpful than not. But in speech? Nah. Whatevs.
I have a 7-year-old who complained yesterday that a teacher told him “gonna” isn’t a word because to him it made more sense than “going to” in certain contexts. Maybe I’ll share this post with him next time instead of my standard *long sigh* “well, son, English is weird…”
English isn't weird. Weird would be a step UP. Well, more like three steps up. English is the gummy reduction left in the bottom of the dumpster after the fire: absolutely revolting but equally absolutely fascinating.
I see you are a fellow quantum comma mechanic as well as a void-owner, so you know the vile goo of which you speak. I was just losing my mind the other day over “stood.”
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Did well in the first 2.
Latin kicked my ass (after 8 years of learning the first 2) and I still hold a grudge.
https://youtu.be/s-mOy8VUEBk
And probably also for the same reason English is a trash fire, because we kept going places with their own languages and making them speak ours
I stand here. I stood over there.
What.
Let’s not even start with ‘sat’. I can hear my Mum from here 😅