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#ITS THE SAME ADJECTIVE
hedgehog-moss · 6 months
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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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theallstore · 2 months
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my beautiful princess with a disorder <333
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marchsage · 1 year
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i read this really good fic, it's a good day (sweet like honey), and dropped everything to draw something for it <:3
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olivers-cocoapuffs · 3 months
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“plus sized” banging my head against the wall.
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youssefguedira · 5 months
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wrote my second ever paragraph in arabic today and now i have a headache
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yossarianirl · 2 months
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whyd my brother put hot english mustard in his mexibean mix
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anothermouse · 1 year
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I find it weird how ppl will say for reasons that systems are fake is that multiple alters talk similar or have similar interests. Have u ever met siblings. They talk similar and have similar interests because they've spent years together ya dork, as systems start to get along more they're gonna start sharing more interests and speech patterns just like you with people you spend a lot of time with lol. Also they all share a life, they have to be able to act like each other to get by and seem "normal."
#this isnt directed ive just noticed that me and willow steal each others interests a lot and its making me think abt all the ppl ive seen#using that reasoning in fake claiming. me and her dont really talk similar but i can imagine that happening with systems who#talk to each other or mask as each other more.#idk. its to our best interest to share skills and interests. if only one person likes/knows writing then we have a problem when we need to#write and they're not present. if only one person likes/knows guitar we're in big trouble in guitar class if they're not present.#and we NEED to get along to operate so its good for us to have things to bond over! we used to argue a lot and it was fucking annoying and#made life hard. i couldnt take care of the body and willow was depressed and it made the brain miserable and it sucked#so the more we can get along the better and i think having things in common is good for that!#like i said we dont really talk the same and for us that works just fine but for some systems that could create communication barriers.#idk. i just think ppl should think a little more about why alters might become similar over time. me and my cohost r literally like family#system#osdd#did#multiple#plural#edit: actually maybe i do pick up speech from her. she says 'my friend' a lot and sometimes im tempted to say it cus its nice#but i feel like it sounds weirder coming from me 😅#OH AND LOVELY. she uses the word lovely so much ive just picked it up. its such a good adjective#idk why usually you expect the host to be the one whos language people copy but i feel like i pick up things from willow more than she does#from me.
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multidimensionalsock · 3 months
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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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tragedykery · 11 months
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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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coern · 3 months
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we when I'm young boy falling down to splatlandian corpse
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vanibear · 1 year
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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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deus-ex-mona · 9 months
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my [redacted] anime parody fic really do be bringing all them bots to the yard
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laurent-ofvere · 10 months
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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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i like how i made a nice looking ref for yoshi and then like a week later all of the info on it became inaccurate lololol
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androcola · 2 years
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there are so many fucking idiots going after some random person on tiktok for saying cis isnt a slur☠️
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p3answer · 2 years
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this is the stupidest shit ive read my entire life
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