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[Eric Blank]

I have received pictures and a lamp to decorate my room. Hurray for yard sales! The lamp shade was spray-painted so it wasn't a hideously tacky pink. It is instead a rusty or cinnamon color. It's leaking that awful spray-paint smell into the atmosphere, though...

[Descan]

I just learned when, how and why use 'the' in English language. No more wondering what the heck that thing is

* Haspen gets EXP in English!

Wait, what? ... Isn't that pretty basic?

[LordSlowpoke]

I just learned when, how and why use 'the' in English language. No more wondering what the heck that thing is

* Haspen gets EXP in English!

Wait, what? ... Isn't that pretty basic?

It is the mystery.

[Vector]

Polish lacks any articles.  It's one of the harder things for such folks to learn.  I know grown men who have lived here for years who still have trouble.

[GlyphGryph]

I just learned when, how and why use 'the' in English language. No more wondering what the heck that thing is

I think you're missing an important word in this sentence. >_>

[Descan]

Oh. Didn't know that.

I know some languages are missing some pretty basic stuff that other languages just look at them and go "Dude, what?" (English included, I ain't no cultural imperialist! I'm CANADIAN!)

But I thought articles were like... REALLY REALLY basic.

THE MORE I KNOW

the more I realize that I haven't really learned much about the world beyond my own hundred kilometer radius area

[Vector]

Does English have a case system, or even a necessary subjunctive?  Noooo.  Stop yer imperialist complaining

[kaenneth]

It's a perfectly cromulent sentence, you have my most enthusiastic contrafibulations.

[Descan]

Does English have a case system, or even a necessary subjunctive?  Noooo.  Stop yer imperialist complaining

>:I

* Descan stops trying to be sensitive in his discussions if people are going to ignore his framing. >:I

[GlyphGryph]

Descan stop making those Imperialist faces right this instant

[Descan]

* Descan cries into his ice cream.

I actually looked up those two things Vector mentioned and uh...

Well... It's a good thing I'm not going into a doctorate of languages. Ow. My head.

[Frumple]

Descan stop making those Imperialist faces right this instant

Naah... that's no imperialist face. This is an imperialist face: ᴟ>:I

It needs a little crown, y'dig?

[Haspen]

* Descan cries into his ice cream.

I actually looked up those two things Vector mentioned and uh...

Well... It's a good thing I'm not going into a doctorate of languages. Ow. My head.

Don't forget taht cases change according to the past/present/future (and others that English don't have names for) as well.

So in Polish, you have 7 cases, for 3 noun genders, for singular/plural, and you then you have to change them even more because of proper time :3

And that's why I look funny at people who claim English is not easy.

[Descan]

They say English isn't easy because it doesn't make sense. It's a mutt language that's a few hundred years old

[Haspen]

Not my fault that English guys got curbstomped by Normans so easily

EDIT: Apparently, it's means both it is and it has. Woah. Such strange contraction xD