One mistake I made a lot when I started learning English was writing both the auxiliary and the main verb in past tense—as in, "Did the rain stopped?" My English teacher had to really drill this grammar point into my head, she was like "the point of 'did' here is to indicate past tense, there's no need for another time marker." Me, genuinely baffled: "Why not?" Teacher: "Think of the 'ed' in 'stopped' as having migrated to the beginning of the sentence and become 'did'. So it's no longer in 'stopped'." Well I was sad to see it go. I pointed out that in French you'd say "The rain (itself) has it stopped?" and 'the rain' feels welcome to stay even though the whole point of the pronoun 'it' should be to replace it in a quicker way. But it would be sad if the noun & its pronoun never got to hang out together so we keep both <3
My teacher had a British look on her face that made my middle-school self wonder if maybe she thought my language wasn't optimally designed, and then she said that in English it would feel clunky to give the same piece of grammatical information twice, and "if you use 'did' then the -ed in 'stopped' doesn't add anything." That just sounded offensive, I mean since when do letters need to add something to a sentence? isn't it enough that they adorn the end of words & frolic with the others in friendship. If it bothers you so much just don't pronounce them. Idk, "did the rain stopped" felt so right to me. In the end my teacher said that "The rain has it stopped?" with the redundant pronoun is the more formal French phrasing anyway, and I was like yeah true we'd rather say "is it that it (itself) has stopped to rain?" and I felt like this really proved my point and I think she felt the same way
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my beautiful princess with a disorder <333
sources under the read more!
lyrics on white background ['the horror and the wild', album by the amazing devil']
lyrics on light grey background ['jenny from thebes', album by the mountain goats]
lyrics on dark grey background ['the moon will sing', song by the crane wives, alt title the most shadowheart song ever and what inspired this whole thing]
background image of crescent moon [luke stackpoole on unsplash]
background image of sunrise [lenstravelier on unsplash]
all other images are either screenshots from in game or taken from the bg3 wiki! https://bg3.wiki/ because boo hiss fandom.com always and forever
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"I read 54 pages of a book today" - kinda lame, i can do better, used to be able to read an entire book in a day, year 5 type beat.
"i read a 54 page book in the language I'm learning" - way cooler, actually fast instead of slow, makes all your monolingual friends think you're really smart.
(these are my personal standards for myself and not to be applied to others based on my own reading speed)
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just remembered when I tried to translate the first chapter of the priory of the orange tree like a year and a half ago but gave up not even a quarter of the way through and tbh I get why it hasn’t been translated to dutch because even translating the title and making it sound Not Horrible is pretty much impossible
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i will write sentences that are so run on the commas and clauses and semicolons in them form a track team
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I’m here for holding Paschal accountable I don’t hate the man but recent posts have reminded me that HEY
this dude could’ve spoken up literally anytime before things got this bad or at least spoken about it in private with either of our main characters but it’s just like Damen had to mention him or he would never have spoken up at all like
My man. You’re under arrest till I interrogate every braincell you possess and justification you can give as he seemingly was just leaving Laurent go off and die
PACAT WE NEED ANSWERS
literally????? sir might I suggest talking to, idk, laurent?? uuuuhmmmmmmm??
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this is the stupidest shit ive read my entire life
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