Yeah...after seeing that, I'm inclined to say one word
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I know, I know, the mods are supposed to give the benefit of doubt, but this is lookin' a tad fishy...
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.
I think I just had a stroke.
MY EYES. THEY BUUUUUUUUURRRRNNNNNN.
Warm hugs and morally questionable advice given here. Prosey Bitchfest... yeah, the boy definitely needs help with that.
edited 8th Mar '11 8:05:24 AM by Komodin
Experience has taught me to investigate anything that glows.Y ar u al maken FUEN of tath gui hes garmar iS FIN in my humbel OPINEION
u can red mi AWASUM advanturs herFinnish grammar is the Cthulhu of linguistics.
Don't believe me?
Here's the Wiktionary definition of "antaa", Finnish for "to give".
Open the folder "Conjugation".
You need to know about 90% of that list to be able to use the word well (if you know only 90% we can probably still tell Finnish isn't your native language).
Every verb has that many forms, and while in English the irregular verbs come in 7 groups, we have no irregular verbs as such, but here's a list of every verb family
sorted by how they conjugate; so each one of those links contains a family of verbs that have similar conjugation. There's more than a couple.
Besides, verbs aren't even the most complicated word class in Finnish; nouns are.
Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.It's times like this that I wish TV Tropes had a wide-eyed "surprise" avatar. The next time someone complains English grammar is complicated I'm pointing them to that page.
But yeah, I do have a (relatively) pertinent question. "Sherlok Holms": Stealth Parody or actually real?
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.^^^Reminds me of Latin.
^^English conjugation is a joke. It's the spelling that's weird. And yes, Holms is parody. And
edited 8th Mar '11 10:51:53 AM by Tzetze
[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.Ah, Tvtropes: where a thread that lampoons the banned users that made asses of themselves while trying to get unbanned can turn into a linguistics thread in a blink of an eye.
Experience has taught me to investigate anything that glows.English pronunciation is evil though.
"HEY WE GOT ALL THESE LETTERS LET'S PRONOUNCE THEM WHATEVER THE FUCK WE WANT"
"But the Romans have pronunciation rules for all those letters, and are quite simple..."
" LOLOL ITS LIKE I'M A REAL LINGUISTIC"\\
edited 8th Mar '11 10:56:57 AM by nohaynicklibre
I can't stop listening to this

huhbuhwha?
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