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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Please elaborate on your context of this.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's from an old video some hicks made to try and get a prison built in their town. You wrote something ungrammatical that reminded me of it... "when don't you do" or something.

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Well, the totally fucked-up English language is still humping me on a daily basis. No grammar and semantics (I know of) is so fucking fuzzy like English.

My native language is German. My first "foreign" language was Latin. Then I learned English, but "mo 'a Bri' Ish flavour of it, inn'it, you focking twat ". This was me being eleven. Then I did my best with "ancient" Greek, which is very similar to German. But at this time in my life, I wasn't able to get this small hint.

Then I did construction for some time and picked up some Polish (my girl... you know), Croatian and Czech.

Right now, I'm growing mostly white hair over picking up Russian. From two "experts" though. Mainly lore so far. I can't wrap my head around their insane grammar, though I'm trying really hard. For me, even fucking French grammar has more sense built-in.

Of course, I had my stints abroad. In Spain: Barcelona, e.g. But this Spanish-Catalan thingmajig I never got along with, tbh.

On the other hand: I am able to dream in foreign languages.

Also: I still listen to Kate Nash when I want to remember my second longterm-gf trying to reproduce her fine (honestly: Kate Nash has a really adorable accent even I can like) cockney-English under the shower on a daily basis. I don't actually like her lyrics. But I like hearing her voice. Fine memories on my end are connected with her singing her personal flavor of bs, in'it?.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I'd assumed you were a native speaker making a joke. So I think your English is pretty good.

English is my native language, but I don't particularly like it. There's a lack of coherent structure.

Irregularity and arbitrariness really remove any enjoyment from the language-learning process for me. That's unfortunate, because I really like learning other languages in most respects. I love learning about the power and nuance languages get from their noun and adjective declinations, for example, but when faced with crap like "you always say 'little old lady', not 'old little' lady" or "'yesterday morning' is correct, and so is 'tomorrow morning', but not 'today morning'" I tend to lose interest and go watch TV or something instead. English has an awful lot of that crap.