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Re: When Kickstarter goes wrong?
« Reply #1965 on: December 15, 2012, 03:36:03 pm »

English grammar is not especially bad. It's English orthography that's complicated and nonsensical and horrible.

This.

For the most part English grammar is regular and logical. The spelling and pronunciation are the fucked-up parts.
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« Reply #1966 on: December 15, 2012, 03:40:04 pm »

English grammar is probably some of the easiest I've seen.

Apparently, my brother's french teacher said that English is one of the hardest languages to learn and uses compound tenses as an example, the future perfect specifically. Even though french totally has that.

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« Reply #1967 on: December 15, 2012, 03:51:50 pm »

English grammar is probably some of the easiest I've seen.

Apparently, my brother's french teacher said that English is one of the hardest languages to learn and uses compound tenses as an example, the future perfect specifically. Even though french totally has that.

I always hear people talking about how hard Latin verbs are to conjugate because they don't have compound tenses.
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« Reply #1968 on: December 15, 2012, 03:55:49 pm »

Frankly, I find the French compound tenses easier than the non-compound ones. While future simple is easy enough (usually it's just the infinitive with the conjugated verb avoir - to have), passé simple is an oxymoron.

The only difficulty with compound tenses is to remember which get être as the auxiliary verb instead of avoir.
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« Reply #1969 on: December 15, 2012, 04:56:43 pm »

Frankly, I find the French compound tenses easier than the non-compound ones. While future simple is easy enough (usually it's just the infinitive with the conjugated verb avoir - to have), passé simple is an oxymoron.

The only difficulty with compound tenses is to remember which get être as the auxiliary verb instead of avoir.

Passé simple is simple. It's just the usual form, with overly ridiculous endings : -ai, -as, -a, -âmes, -âtes, -èrent (for first group), and so on.

Generally, you can guess what auxilary to use depending on if it's passive/active (although there's exceptions).
But the conjugated form also varies depending on the object pronoun before the verb.
The verb is conjugated with être, or with avoir only if the direct object is placed before the auxilary (in the form of a pronoun). In that case, it's conjugated with the object, not the subject.
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« Reply #1970 on: December 15, 2012, 05:28:21 pm »

Relevant:

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« Reply #1971 on: December 15, 2012, 05:44:39 pm »

Relevant:



Speech without verbs of ability of possession of existence in a weird state.

My challenge for you for creation of text in this way without usage of verbs... it of possession of existence in a difficult state.

Dream of my possession past last night about a world in which verbs nothing of possession of existence of a state of usage.

[Speech without verbs is weird. I challenge you to create text like this without using verbs... it is hard. I had a dream last night about a world where verbs could not be used.]
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« Reply #1972 on: December 15, 2012, 06:06:34 pm »

Verbs? For chumps.

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« Reply #1973 on: December 15, 2012, 06:32:42 pm »

Without, wholly without both -- thus -- oh, how wondrous! Difficult, truly, but worthily so.

(No nouns, no verbs, no letter "a" or "e.")
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Re: When Kickstarter goes wrong?
« Reply #1974 on: December 15, 2012, 07:44:08 pm »

Without, wholly without both -- thus -- oh, how wondrous! Difficult, truly, but worthily so.

(No nouns, no verbs, no letter "a" or "e.")

Indeed! Difficult- truly so, undeniably. But satisfyingly so, too!

Pointedly I have, absurd as apparent, informed that "I, me, you", and others of theirs- truly not concretely as with many!

[Pronouns technically aren't nouns, if you listen to English teachers anyway]
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« Reply #1975 on: December 15, 2012, 08:40:24 pm »

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« Reply #1976 on: December 15, 2012, 08:58:45 pm »

Back on topic: has anyone heard about The Falcon Project?

Yes... a desperate goal of making an airship with thermal imaging cameras to fly around and search for Bigfoot from the air. Kickstart it now!
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« Reply #1977 on: December 15, 2012, 10:30:02 pm »

Back on topic: has anyone heard about The Falcon Project?

Yes... a desperate goal of making an airship with thermal imaging cameras to fly around and search for Bigfoot from the air. Kickstart it now!

He'd be better off searching for giant reefs made of gold in the Australian desert.
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« Reply #1978 on: December 15, 2012, 11:20:20 pm »

If there is an unknown large ass animal in north america, a sustained entensive search, like this would be a great boon.

But lets say that, this thing does move forward and finds squat. And? It wont stop the proponents. 
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« Reply #1979 on: December 16, 2012, 12:31:54 am »

If there is an unknown large ass animal in north america, a sustained entensive search, like this would be a great boon.

But lets say that, this thing does move forward and finds squat. And? It wont stop the proponents.

Indeed.
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