YAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGANARRRRRRRG!

[Suu]

English is screwed up anyway. At least you know in German the verb WILL ALWAYS be second, unless it's a question, then it's first...maybe, then any other verbs in the thought go at the end.

On the plus side, at least English doesn't decline nouns.

[Luna]

I almost picked up a T-shirt at the last convention that said something along the lines of:

"English doesn't borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over the head, and goes through their pockets for loose grammar."

[Suu]

English is why Romance, Gaelic, and Germanic shouldn't have love children.

[LMNO]

"I'll come up with a solve tomorrow."

Fuck me.  I'm pretty sure I'll be hearing this soon.

[Triple Zero]

I think I took it from a reddit thread as an actual quote.

English is screwed up anyway. At least you know in German the verb WILL ALWAYS be second, unless it's a question, then it's first...maybe, then any other verbs in the thought go at the end.

TIL what's up with Kirschtorte's Dutch, some days

On the plus side, at least English doesn't decline nouns.

I only decline nouns when I'm outnumbered.

What's the difference between declension and inflection? (Hey, I just speak the language)

[Suu]

Declension depends on the case of the verb, which doesn't really effect much in English due to the fact we don't have gender specifics or any other word for "the". You really only see it in German and Latin. That's dealing with nominative (subject), accusative (direct object), and dative (indirect object) cases. (Or if it's Latin, add another 3 more...)

Inflection is the modification of a word, typically a verb, to change the grammatical voice, case, gender, etc. Again, not very prominent in English.

A cat is still a cat, even if it's a girl or a boy cat. If this was Spanish, it would be la gata for a girl kitty, or el gato for a boy, that's gender inflection on a noun. English doesn't do this.

The best example I can give in English (which is also in German) is inflection with verbs.

To write, wrote, written.

To sing, sang, sung.

Etc.

[Triple Zero]

So, to put it in perspective, "inflection is sometimes caused by declension" ?

[Suu]

Exactly!

Declensions always cause inflections, but inflections don't always mean there's a declension.




We need Jenne in here.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

We had one sentence in jr. high english class that can mean six different things. It was so fucked, I still remember it:

I never said he stole money.

I never said he stole money.

I never said he stole money.

I never said he stole money.

I never said he stole money.

I never said he stole money.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

We had one sentence in jr. high english class that can mean six different things. It was so fucked, I still remember it:

I never said he stole money.

I never said he stole money.

I never said he stole money.

I never said he stole money.

I never said he stole money.

I never said he stole money.

Latin would clear that confusion up with word placement.

[Suu]

That's emphasis, which you only get in spoken word, not in written. Which is why there's so much unnecessary drama on the internets.

[Suu]

We had one sentence in jr. high english class that can mean six different things. It was so fucked, I still remember it:

I never said he stole money.

I never said he stole money.

I never said he stole money.

I never said he stole money.

I never said he stole money.

I never said he stole money.

Latin would clear that confusion up with word placement.

Any language would BUT English.
ANY language would but English.
Any language WOULD, but English.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

That's emphasis, which you only get in spoken word, not in written. Which is why there's so much unnecessary drama on the internets.

THIS. 

[AFK]

That's emphasis, which you only get in spoken word, not in written. Which is why there's so much unnecessary drama on the internets.

Yeah, because you can't make the wild gesticulations with your arms.  That always gets the point across better.  RWHN said while doing The Robot.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

We had one sentence in jr. high english class that can mean six different things. It was so fucked, I still remember it:

I never said he stole money.

I never said he stole money.

I never said he stole money.

I never said he stole money.

I never said he stole money.

I never said he stole money.

Latin would clear that confusion up with word placement.

Any language would BUT English.
ANY language would but English.
Any language WOULD, but English.