• seSvxR3ull7LHaEZFIjM@feddit.de
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    3 months ago

    If he only said “I cleaned my shoes”, they could be dirty again. Now you know the difference between present perfect and simple past. English grammar, it’s weird (but every language’s is, to be fair).

    • stoicmaverick@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Don’t even get me started on whoever decided that through, trough, and though, don’t rhyme, but pony and Bologna do. I bet he was a colonel who kept a journal… Asshole…

      • seSvxR3ull7LHaEZFIjM@feddit.de
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        3 months ago

        To be pedantic that’s not grammar but orthography (which in English is even weirder). English is just a mutant amalgamation of Germanic, Romance and Celtic languages and man, it shows.

        • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Mashing together all the languages into a Frankenstein form of communication is English grammar. It has nothing to do with birds!