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I learn most of my grammar from books, so I'm pretty proficient with it...
Though any word spoken by any person used to mean any thing is considered a real word. Think about it, "you" was once "ye", and even before that was "yea", words evolve over time, and new ones are always being added to speech... That aside, one word I use at least ten times an hour is "eh?", and it has too many definitions to count XD |
That's where I got most of my grammar from: books. Though schooling does help a little bit. I mean, that's what half of English classes are for, if not for just literature.
I'm actually highly interested in linguistics, which is the study of language, so I have a book on the history of the English language. I haven't had a lot of time to read it (given all my actual schoolwork *cough*), but I'm sure there's quite a bit of change that the language has gone through to get to this point. It also doesn't help that English "steals" quite a lot of just about every form of language – it's a Romantic, Germanic, Greek, and Occidental language all at the same time. |
Yeah, English is basically just an amalgamation of more ancient languages, like German and Latin...
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Well I guess I'll lighten up. Thanks guys who just posted!
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I know its Japanese, but 「役不足」
While it means "something that is too easy/simple and is not fit for a particular person", there are many young people who use the word as "a task too hard and not fit for the particular person" - the complete opposite. Quote:
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I'm assuming the reason why "hentai" is used for that purpose is because someone who is a hentai would be the person looking at it?
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You have a very good point there. I wonder, then, why it's used colloquially the way it is.
I just remembered another thing in grammar that grinds my gears: ending sentences with a preposition. It's improper and just bad form – you actually get graded down on university papers if you end sentences with prepositions. At least, most professors will grade you down if you do that. |
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I hate it when people write "your" instead of "you're", or vice versa.
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