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 Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:06 pm
I'm a native English speaker, and I don't hate the language. I actually like the sound of it. ._.
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 5:38 pm
English isn't my native tongue but I don't mind the language. I find it interesting and I like how different people pronounces the word in various ways. I just don't like it when teenagers "over slang" English
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Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 6:02 pm
Fatal Hilarity Was "have" originally a verb, or did people only start using it instead of "have got"? Also, are all Oxford Dictionaries British-English dictionaries only? My mother brouhgt me an American-English dictionary today, and thinking about it, I think it's the first time I've ever had or seen a specific one.
For example, it's used in the same ways as these words:
have eaten
have paid
have left
The first have is used to show possession. (Ex: I have three dogs, etc.)
I use Oxford dictionaries at home, and I think it shows both spellings. I'm not sure, however. (I need to read dictionaries more thoroughly, eh? ninja )
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 9:01 am
MiasmaMoon Fatal Hilarity Was "have" originally a verb, or did people only start using it instead of "have got"? Also, are all Oxford Dictionaries British-English dictionaries only? My mother brouhgt me an American-English dictionary today, and thinking about it, I think it's the first time I've ever had or seen a specific one.
For example, it's used in the same ways as these words:
have eaten
have paid
have left
The first have is used to show possession. (Ex: I have three dogs, etc.)
I use Oxford dictionaries at home, and I think it shows both spellings. I'm not sure, however. (I need to read dictionaries more thoroughly, eh? ninja )
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 1:47 pm
Koko.Dk MiasmaMoon Fatal Hilarity Was "have" originally a verb, or did people only start using it instead of "have got"? Also, are all Oxford Dictionaries British-English dictionaries only? My mother brouhgt me an American-English dictionary today, and thinking about it, I think it's the first time I've ever had or seen a specific one.
For example, it's used in the same ways as these words:
have eaten
have paid
have left
The first have is used to show possession. (Ex: I have three dogs, etc.)
I use Oxford dictionaries at home, and I think it shows both spellings. I'm not sure, however. (I need to read dictionaries more thoroughly, eh? ninja )It depends on the dialect. Besides, "got" has two different meanings, which could be confusing.
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:40 pm
Koko.Dk It should be "have gotten" instead of "have got." I don't know why many people don't get that! Not exactly. True, if you mean get as in to obtain, or in idiomatic expressions, then you would use gotten (as in, "I would have gotten a dog if it weren't for my landlord" or "I thought I'd gotten rid of you!"). However, "have got" is another way to say have. For example, "do you have the keys?" means the same thing as "have you got the keys?" It's used pretty informally in the US but in British English it's very common.
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Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 9:01 pm
Well, you could also say, 'I have got to go,' I think.
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Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:13 pm
Doppelgaanger Well, you could also say, 'I have got to go,' I think. I say that >_> I also use it in spanish, correct or not x3
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Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:42 pm
Koko.Dk KrazyassKow Yeah, english is the most complicated language because of all the exceptions and pronunciations and such. not exactly Finnish is but English is # 3 on the hardest languages list
Bah! No, Finnish is incredibly easy. For me at least.
German is very very hard for me...
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 8:48 am
There are studies by the military that say Japanese is the hardest. Obviously, there is no hardest language. Well, at the very least, it varies person to person.
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:36 pm
Jazzy-Devine Koko.Dk KrazyassKow Yeah, english is the most complicated language because of all the exceptions and pronunciations and such. not exactly Finnish is but English is # 3 on the hardest languages list Bah! No, Finnish is incredibly easy. For me at least. German is very very hard for me...
German: 4 cases (Nominative, Accusative, Genitive, Dative)
Finnish: 15 cases (Nominative {and accusative together}, genitive, partitive, inessive, elative, adessive, ablative, allative, essive , exessive (Dialectical), translative, abessive, and comitative).
Pronounciation:
German: the gutteral "ch" sound in nicht, the "ch" sound in huge or ich, the uvular trill "r."
Finnish: very easy
Word order:
German: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Language#Word_order
Finnish: Depends on it's cases
Like Doppelgaanger said it depends on where you are coming from. Most English speakers find Finnish a lot harder compared to German. Is your native language Finnish, Estonian, Karelian, or is it English? If it's English, I having ******** idea why you found it so easy. I just started German after studying my heart and soul into Danish and found that it was easier than Danish and since I attempted Finnish too, I say German was easier for me
I've studied Danish hun, (Pronounciation hell), it's much harder than German. German and English are related and you should be able to pick out some familiar words.
I like Finnish, don't get me wrong but it's so difficult because of it's cases that I can't put a sentence together without the question of case getting in the way.
*I'm swearing because today was stressful, I have to find another job and my mother is losing her job too because how bad things are where she is working. It is under investigation right now and since her boss quit everyone's out of job. So yeah sorry if I offended you with the "********>
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