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| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4689 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 393 of 568 25 November 2013 at 8:15pm | IP Logged | ||
The same rule applies in English, and I've always wondered why this was so hard to understand. You can drop the verb "to be" from a sentence, just don't CHANGE the pronoun you would have used: He is as big as I [am]. I am bigger than he [is]. Nobody ever says "he is as big as me is" or "he is as big as me am," so what's the problem? Similarly, I've never met an adult who would dream of saying "she sent a letter to I," so why would you think it's now correct to say "she letter a letter to my friend and I"? EDIT: </RANT> Edited by geoffw on 25 November 2013 at 8:16pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4704 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 394 of 568 26 November 2013 at 11:52pm | IP Logged | ||
Funnily enough, this has always been much easier for me to remember in Dutch than in English. I hope you will forgive if I drop a "big as me" on this log, geoffw. :-) There was another thing I wanted to just note real quick in my loggy log! Gisteren, terwijl ik naar Indonesische tv-programma's keek, is het me opgevallen dat er iets raars aan het gebeuren was. Na een stukje langer kijken besefte ik wat het was. Namelijk: dat al de actoren van Aziatische afkomst waren. Ja, nou, 'duh'. Maar voor mij is dat eigenlijk iets bijzonders. Als Aziatische Amerikaan zie ik actoren die op me lijken bijna nooit. In de Verenigde Staten bestaan Aziatisch-Amerikaanse actoren nauwelijks. Ik kan niet één Aziatisch-Amerikaanse actor of actrice noemen - behalve de actoren die stereotypische Aziatische dingen doen, zoals Jet Li. Dus voor mij is het een blijde verrassing om dit te zien: mensen die op me lijken, die álle rollen spelen. Niet alleen de nerd of de geisha maar ook de held en de liefdesrol en de gewone man. Dat sprak me erg aan. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4704 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 395 of 568 27 November 2013 at 8:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Again, haven't done much here. Indonesian Have been listening to a ton of music, especially Peterpan. I think I am in love with that band. So crazy though - the lead singer, Ariel, was sentenced to three years in jail (!) because a sex tape of his got out and started circulating. More about that on the Wikipedias French Let it be known that I am going to start reviving my French! Today I ordered Seymour Resnick's Essential French Grammar from Amazon. Super cheap, so yay. Thanks to emk for the original recommendation - found it when trawling "how to revive my French" threads in the Advice Forum. I also have that Assimil French With Ease course and have done Assimil 1. It was super easy. My goals for this language: recover a solid B2, which is what I had when I left off in 2009. I will need to think about how exactly I'm going to do this, but I want this to be low stress. The project is purely for my own amusement. I fully expect my passive skills to blow past my active skills in the beginning. And, just to set a benchmark, here's an initial French-language post going off of what I remember. No preparation: Bonjour à tous! Je m'appelle Sara, j'ai 22 ans et j'habite au New York. J'ai appris le français à l'école, mais je l'ai complètement perdu. Triste, non? Je suis d'accord. Donc, j'ai décidé à apprendre le français pour la deuxième fois. À l'école, le français ne me semblait pas très important. Mais j'ai réalisé, ça, c'est pas vrai. Le français, c'est la langue d'art, la langue de Foucault, la langue d'une belle culture. Bien que je n'ai besoin du français, ça serait très triste si je l'abandonne. J'espère que la voyage sera très belle. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4689 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 396 of 568 27 November 2013 at 9:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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Pas mal pour "complètement perdu." J'ignore qui est Foucault, sauf que Umberto Eco a
écrit un livre intitulé "Il Pendolo di Foucault," que j'ai acheté, mais je n'ai pas encore lu. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 397 of 568 27 November 2013 at 9:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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Foucault était un bon scientifique français, si je me souviens bien, et c'était bel et
ben lui qui inventáit le pendulum dont vous parlez. Et il y a, par ailleurs, un autre Foucault, qui est un parmi les plus célèbres philosophes du XXème siècle. Il faut pas les confondre :) Edited by tarvos on 27 November 2013 at 9:33pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4704 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 398 of 568 27 November 2013 at 10:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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Haha, merci Tarvos. J'ai pensé à Foucault le philosophe, c'est bon que tu sois ici. :-)
geoffw - Merci! Si j'écris, c'est pas si mal, c'est vrai. Je crois que j'aurais beaucoup de difficulté si je parlerais. Umberto Eco, il est un des auteurs très très doués, il est aussi l'auteur préféré de mon amie. Le Dan Brown pour les gens intelligents, non? :-P Edited by Hekje on 27 November 2013 at 11:12pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 399 of 568 27 November 2013 at 11:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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J'en étais pas sûr, j'ai du le verifier sur Wikipedia...
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| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4704 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 400 of 568 27 November 2013 at 11:40pm | IP Logged | ||
Je croyais que le titre était une métaphore. :-P 1 person has voted this message useful |
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