COLOURS ARE FUCKING COLOURS. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING, FRANCE?!
French is ass
This is why Lojban is the best language.
Next topic: When and when not to pronounce a consonant as schwa /ə/.
Spoiler: It depends
Oh yes. The good old vowel shift, and the many faces of e.
Polish enters the room…
Znowu się zaczyna…
Big complaints from someone with a language where the connection between the written text and its pronunciation can only be described as rather weak.
English is a wreck of three other languages but at least we escaped gendered nouns and adjectives. That’s got to be the most pointless language feature of all time.
Even in English, nouns have gender, even though the articles don’t show it.
Your point, she is not making sense.
Well yeah, but one of the big reasons for that is actually the French. See: The Norman Conquest.
They deserve each other.
Nope, the biggest problem is the vowel shift, but that is a complicated topic. Read “Why Q needs U” for details. Thanks to RobWords for that book recommendation!
I don’t no watt your talking about.
Don’t think! Memorize!
Ehm… this is super common
Ok but hear me out. What if colours just had one word instead of two?
It is the same word
Edit: i still understand being puzzled by this, but the thing is, learning a language partially forces you to learn how the native speakers think… i would even argue that is the final milestone on learning a language.
Spanish found a way to supress the subject from it’s sentences
Germans speak as if they were assembling a puzzle
Japanese looks like a programming language… pretty neat
Russian has two different plurals and the quantity that makes a word fall in the first one or the second one is “arbitrary”.
I know this looks like a gigantic mountain to climb, but i assure you that as you advance, things will progressively make more sense
spoiler
That does not apply to the numbers… it feels like a toddler forgot how to count and started making up shit. What really bothers me is not that but the amiguity… 4 20 sounds exactly as 80
Estonians found a way to communicate without sex, future, articles or prepositions. Oh, sounds like a super easy language to learn with fewer things in it, right? Fuck you, we have 14 cases so we could tell foreigners from native speakers by how they confuse genitive and partitive, two of the most basic cases. And then most cities, towns, villages you’d go to use illative (“into”) to say “I’m going to X”, but some will be allative (“onto”) and there’s no rule for it, so people from other parts of the country might not know it and it’ll sound super weird.
And I still find English to be the weird language. Just look at the different words written as “lead”. Why are they pronounced so differently?! Nothing is pronounced as written.
It is not an ambiguity, it is a remaining from a popular way to count. Just as you may count per hundreds and 4 100 sounds like 400, and means it. But you may also count things by dozen (most likely for eggs…).
Yet you may use “octante” (beligum) or “huitante” (swiss) instead of “quatre-vingt”.
You are right… i never paid attention to it cause spanish does not have this until 1000
4 (cuatro), 100 (cien), 400 (cuatrocientos)
4, 1000 (mil), 4000 (cuatromil)
Thanks, this helps me
Oh I dont actually find it hard. I just like shitposting.
You guys have it easy. In my native tongue every verb changes depending on noun’s gender, tense, while nouns change depending on - I shit you not - how much cute it is.
I’m fascinated. Can I ask which language?
Sure, it’s Polish.
Example, verbs:
“I was” in Polish - byłem (male) byłam (female) byłom (neither, not really in use, but technically correct).
Example, nouns:
“A cat” - kot (male), kotka (female).
“Kitty” - kotek (male), koteczka (female).
Then depending on cuteness informal obligatory rule gradient is:
koteczek (male) koteczka (female),
kitek (too cute for gender),
kituś (much too cute for gender),
kituniek (cuteness, love and sugar overload, gender does not exists in the universe, you have seen the face of god and they are bliss).
Works for every verb, but there are grammar rules and shitton of exceptions in the gradient.
Sir the title is in English the most irregular language known to mankind
I know you’re not speaking English while complaining about irregular grammar in other languages, I just know.
My illogical language is better because I speak it.
la sola klera lingvo estas Esperanto
Some punk knocks down the Tower of Babel and now we gotta deal with shit like this
Literally no natural language is perfectly regular
French is shitty Latin.
The Gauls were so spiteful of Caesar that they intentionally made it shitty to spite Rome
‘I am mechanic who plays a soccer’.
Yes, very cool France. Thank you.
The change is due to the gender Le manteau (masculine “le”) La veste (feminine “la”). Many languages have the same concordance between gender and adjectives.
I think it’s more about how this doesn’t follow the usual rule for adjective agreement. By that rule it would be le manteau blanc / la veste blance, but that sounds weird and un-French I suppose so “blanche” it is. (I don’t know French very well so take this all with a grain of salt)
That’s essentially it. It’s a general rule that adjectives ending in -c turn into either -che or -cque.
