It occurred to me the other day that the people who are Very Angry About Pronouns are literally Grammar Nazis.
An irony I’m sure will entertain them, while they genocide us.
Image transcription:
On the top, there is text in fancy writing that states ‘If you think “pronouns are confusing”, wait until you find about’, being cut off. The last word of the sentence, ‘verbs’, is in yellow, and over a digital painting of an long-bearded wizard using fire magic to attack and burn a defenseless individual in front of him.
Hope I’ve been helpful.
English verbs are some of the easiest to learn imo
You got 3 versions based on past, present, and future tense.
Most languages have those three as well as 7 other versions based on who you’re talking to and how many there are.
Is it a girl? Is it a guy? Is it a group of people? Are you trying to be formal? Are you talking to close friends?
This is my biggest issue with learning other languages.
In my experience, students will sooner or later run into the madness that is English past participle vs. past tense. They can pick up a few patterns but there’s so much more to know that a good chunk of it is just plain rote memorization. And that’s just (one aspect of) one part of speech. English has waaay too many exceptions and irregularities.
english only has past and not-past tenses, doesn’t it? anything else has to get cleared up with extra words.
Adverbs are the really shitty ones.
Uralic languages: “What is a gender? A miserable little pile of grammatic prejudice!”
And wait until you learn about verb tenses!
… ah wait, these almost don’t exist in English
Verb! That’s the action word!
(This will totally date me.)
Hello, I’m “This”
Which verbs do you go by?
Run
He/him , S M O K E
