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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7203 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 113 of 116 13 December 2014 at 12:35am | IP Logged | |||||
Who came up with that syntax anyway?
Like when someone says, "I literally s**t my pants", and you start sniffing to find out if they're stupid or not? Edited by luke on 13 December 2014 at 12:49am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 114 of 116 13 December 2014 at 4:39am | IP Logged | |||||
I wonder what the French say 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4907 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 115 of 116 13 December 2014 at 9:43am | IP Logged | |||||
Your Google-fu is weak today, my friend. Here's a discussion about "I kid you not", in which one person suggests it evolved into "I s**t you not". That makes sense to me. Edited by Jeffers on 13 December 2014 at 9:43am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 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 116 of 116 21 December 2014 at 12:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
There's also the problem that before you sound sophisticated, you're going to sound unsophisticated... this stage of "I feel like a clown" is something everyone learning languages that is going through the upper levels where speaking well is important will recognize. As for aural media, I do consume it, but I don't find anything interesting in listening to something I can't understand, whereas with reading I can look it up. That's why I start with speaking to human beings, because here I can listen in context and figure out how natives truly speak. Holy moly two-sentence run-on mix-up extravaganza! Edited by tarvos on 21 December 2014 at 2:06pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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