Disgusting

In Chinese all verbs are in the infinitive. There’s no conjugation at all ever

I didn't even notice this until it was pointed out to me fairly late in life

it's not as disgusting as it sounds

it's really hard to explain but it intuitively makes sense if you speak the language, trust me

How does that even work

Like

What’s an example

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/widać

this is an example

it's used to express visibility, so, like, there's literally no context where it would be useful to say "I am being visible"

that would just sound cringy and weird

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@ophiuchus I can try to explain it better if you want

actually let's take this to the language channel on Identity Vdmvrtia

Haha!

verbs are dumb

nouns and prepositions only

well and the identity verb I guess is/are

novns

It's fitting that English is the language of America really because it's a hybrid of so many European languages just as Americans are mostly Euromutts

hmm

I think that applies to any language in a sense

but maybe English in particular?

Yes English has a lot of influence from Latin to Viking languages to Saxon to French all mixed in with the base language.

The English Isles have traded hands many times.

next arabic

Looks like it's trading hands again soon... <:sad:366743316475281408>

This won't even be an invasive force like the past, they are handing over their country to outsiders this time.

You know, I actually read a bit about Chinese grammar recently, and it seems like Weihan Zhang has a pretty good understanding of it. He uses english words with chinese syntax

I’m still like 95% sure he’s actually a white guy though

English always struck me as a germanic language desperately wanting to be a Romance one.

okay guys I just wrote an effort post about verbs only having an infinitive

DM me to join Slav server and read it

>effort posting about slavic verb conjugations
I wonder what black twitter is up to?

Rioting for Smollett

Something something racism

English has a huge amount of romance influence- mostly from Normal French but also some directly from Latin

@Perihelion - CA Probably the same thing. They're wondering what we're up to. They probably think we're talking about hating minorities or not seasoning chicken or something, but really we're debating grammar.

I guess they'd be partially correct, I am indeed not seasoning chicken at the moment.

That Allsup video made me laugh today. Imagine a latinx getting offended by the confederate flag.