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 Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 8:22 pm
I get annoyed with people's grammar usage, but I never point it out to them unless they are learning Enlgish.
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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 8:32 pm
Oh. Well I know that I use weird grammar. It gets influenced by the languages I study, so my word order is funky. And I often make up my own grammar for no reason.
My randomness doesn't show up so much in text though.When I actually talk, I tend to make everything OSV for some reason. It just feels natural to me. So I'll say, "Bob, the store did you go to? The groceries did you buy?" And along with my weird accent, lots of people think of foreign somehow.
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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 8:47 pm
Learning foreign languages has actually helped my English grammar.
YODA!! Not quite, but it still sounds kind of like him. xd
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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 9:32 pm
I've been called yoda more than once... sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 9:37 pm
Sorry. The main reason I thought Yoda was, we watched the Empire Strikes Back not too long ago. sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 9:56 pm
I've only ever seen one Star Wars movie, ever. :3
Isn't that what we're talking about?
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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 10:02 pm
No, but oh well. rofl RETURN OF THE JEDI is coming next!! heart MY FAVOURITE!!! whee heart
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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 10:14 pm
I just saw something about Yoda and Empire strikes back, and I made assumptions.
When my friend heard I'd only seen one he threatened he'd tie me down to a chair if need be and make me watch all of them. (He's a big fan.)
I don't think he'll have to though. I've seen so many parodies so that even if I do get bored, I can at least make fun of them. >:3
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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 10:16 pm
Star wars isn't that good.
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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 10:21 pm
The older trilogy, durign the Empire, is good. Phantom Menace is ok. Attack of the Clones... My goodness...I hate the third one so much I can't even remember the name. o.O
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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 10:28 pm
Oh, sheiße. It's 5.25 already. I'm going to sleep. It's amazing how fast time flies when editing photos for the intarwebs. eek
Night!
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Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 1:25 am
Don't forget the people who tell you to never split your infinitives, say that you should never put prepositions at the end of your sentences and insist that everyone use "whom." mrgreen
Don't look at me, there's something about a VSO word order that seems natural to me. OSV is pretty natural too.
To one of my conlangs (Aquénandi) a flexible OSV word order I gave.
And has another conlang VSO word order.
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Eccentric Iconoclast Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 7:26 am
I hate those people. Just, grr....
Yay, OSV! It just feels natural somehow. I think its kind of my brain conflicting between Japanese and English grammar. So, I try to put the verb at the end like Japanese, but I also and try and keep the subject with its verb as in English, becayse saying "I food eat" is awkward sounding, and I come up with OSV-ish. Yoda, you may call me!
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Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 2:15 pm
Do you know if learning your mother language's grammer in a way the foreigners learn it (in a critical way), helps learning foreign languages?
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Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 3:13 pm
I think it can, in that you will get more familiar with various grammatical terms and stuff that if you know, will make understanding the grammar of other languages easier. But not for learning English, you already speak it, so bleh.
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