legaldinho wrote:To learn another language, move to country, watch TV with subtitles.
Yossarian wrote:I'm genuinely happy to answer English grammar questions in here. I like my grammar knowledge, I don't want to forget it. Plus, it may help others learn languages, so feel free to fire away.
Liveinadive wrote:I will never fully wrap my head around gendered languages. I just can't correlate sex to inanimate objects.
cockbeard wrote:Agree with Kow, I think machinery being called female is as it's revered/adored as either a mother protector or cared for like a wife/daughter The one that blew my mind was the English order of adjectives https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/13/sentence-order-adjectives-rule-elements-of-eloquence-dictionary
Kow wrote:Adjective order is basically pure opinion toward pure fact. Begin with ugly, end with leather, for example. An ugly leather jacket.
Yossarian wrote:The most amazing thing about it is that native English speakers use the order naturally without ever having heard it.
Kow wrote:Adjective order is basically pure opinion toward pure fact. Begin with ugly, end with leather, for example. An ugly leather jacket.
Another way of looking at it is the general towards the specific. Many things are ugly, fewer things are leather.
Yossarian wrote:Another way of looking at it is the general towards the specific. Many things are ugly, fewer things are leather.
Tempy wrote:reg did a degree
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