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[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 25 points 8 months ago

past participle

Im so glad i was raised in the language so i can just speak without ever needing to learn this shit. My eyes have always glazed over in English class. An adjective that's also a verb? Gtfo

[-] M500@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

Yeah, also when English is your first language you are not judged harshly when you make a mistake.

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago

same shit happened to me with french, though tbf, i just cant fucking stand spoken laungage, shit is a nightmare, and so is french.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

The constructed language Lojban doesn't actually differentiate between adjectives, verbs, nouns and adverbs, because it turns out separating words into categories like that isn't a useful exercise.

For example, is "shower" a noun or a verb? What about "bike?"

Take the word "green." In English, color words are pretty strictly adjectives. in English, you say a traffic light "turns green." In Lojban, you would say the light "is greening" or "greens." Funny how you can also make English do that, huh?

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