original reddit post (removed).
Ridiculous the way Roy Devans blames his wife for being influenced by 'monogamous societal norms', as if that's a bad thing.
Yes, most people are monogamous. There's nothing wrong with this whatsoever.
What is important here is honesty. Roy Devans promised his wife he'd be faithful to her when he married her. He has broken that promise.
If people are looking for relationships and declare at the outset that they're looking for open relationships, then ok.
But Roy Devans didn't do that.
how much is ramapo going to cost?
my daughter in africa meets in a cow shed for her meetings.
i wonder how many khs in africa they could build if they dropped ramapo?.
Just for me, what is ramapo?
My first reaction to this post was 'I like Ramapo: First Blood Part 2'
the short answer is no, it is not.. i have heard one or two proposals that it is, including from langfocus, a usually excellent youtube channel.. but no, english is actually a germanic language which has borrowed many words from other languages.
here are several reasons why english is germanic at its core .... 1. verb forms.
i play - ich spiele.
Although, thinking about it, there is a construction that French uses in place of a continuous tense:
Je suis en train de marcher - I am in the process of walking.
the short answer is no, it is not.. i have heard one or two proposals that it is, including from langfocus, a usually excellent youtube channel.. but no, english is actually a germanic language which has borrowed many words from other languages.
here are several reasons why english is germanic at its core .... 1. verb forms.
i play - ich spiele.
@Scully
There is no present continuous tense in French.
Je marche - I walk/am walking.
Ditto the past continuous.
the short answer is no, it is not.. i have heard one or two proposals that it is, including from langfocus, a usually excellent youtube channel.. but no, english is actually a germanic language which has borrowed many words from other languages.
here are several reasons why english is germanic at its core .... 1. verb forms.
i play - ich spiele.
Ok, I take your point about gerunds.
But, it's simply a fact that Old English (the language spoke in England before the Norman Conquest) use to have -s ending plurals.
There were two types of plural endings in Old English.
daeg - dagas (day)
nama - naman (name)
Sorry, this is just a fact. The influence of French, especially from 1066 onward, may explain why the -s plural ending became more popular than the -n ending, but it's just a fact that English always had -s plural endings for some nouns.
the short answer is no, it is not.. i have heard one or two proposals that it is, including from langfocus, a usually excellent youtube channel.. but no, english is actually a germanic language which has borrowed many words from other languages.
here are several reasons why english is germanic at its core .... 1. verb forms.
i play - ich spiele.
As for the gerund, check out this comparison between English, German and Swedish ...
warning - Warnung - varning
the short answer is no, it is not.. i have heard one or two proposals that it is, including from langfocus, a usually excellent youtube channel.. but no, english is actually a germanic language which has borrowed many words from other languages.
here are several reasons why english is germanic at its core .... 1. verb forms.
i play - ich spiele.
@Anon
The -s ending for plural nouns is actually from Old English, in other words English has always had that.
daeg - day
dagas - days
As for the present/past continuous (I am/was going), well, French doesn't have that.
the dalai lama has apologised after footage showed him asking a boy if he wanted to suck the tibetan spiritual leader's tongue.. .
his office said he wanted to apologise to the child and his family "for the hurt his words may have caused".. .
the video also shows the dalai lama kissing the child on his lips.. soon after the pope alleged peodo activity .
Freaking weirdo.
Check his laptop for child porn.
the short answer is no, it is not.. i have heard one or two proposals that it is, including from langfocus, a usually excellent youtube channel.. but no, english is actually a germanic language which has borrowed many words from other languages.
here are several reasons why english is germanic at its core .... 1. verb forms.
i play - ich spiele.
@Scully - you're right English uses to do as an auxiliary verb in a way that most languages don't.
However, French uses est-ce que (literally 'is it that') in exactly the same way, to form questions.
E.g. Est-ce que tu as des freres ou des soeurs? - do you have any brothers or sisters?
It's possible, perhaps even likely, that English was influenced by French in this way.
the short answer is no, it is not.. i have heard one or two proposals that it is, including from langfocus, a usually excellent youtube channel.. but no, english is actually a germanic language which has borrowed many words from other languages.
here are several reasons why english is germanic at its core .... 1. verb forms.
i play - ich spiele.
What I think about calling English a hybrid language is this: it's obviously a low-resolution answer to the question.
Start digging, do your research, and it quickly becomes crystal-clear. English is a Germanic language which has a long, glorious history of borrowing from other languages.
Start
Begin
Commence
Initiate
^^^ four words that mean the same, but perhaps with different shades of meaning. Begin is Germanic, commence is from French, initiate is from Latin. I don't know where start comes from.
