I like old forms of irregular verbs, like written and wrote, spoke (or spake), drove, drunk, ate/eaten, slept that don’t make sense or feel right with an -ed at the end but could easily be given one by someone unfamiliar with the language
3:40 one that I would use (as somebody very unexperienced) is a simple "()", It is even used in english once with "(S)he" in some messages (albeit "They" works just as fine in that scenario). "Ein(e) gute(r) Spieler(in)" seems like something that would be used in a message, albeit not formal writing, that seems to be the main problem here.
Had an ex who was Norwegian. He always complained that Americans never learn other languages and aren't cultures. I had to explain that the likely hood of meeting someone like him is a 1% chance. On top of that, if he's going to interact with me, he most likely will default to English. Despite a few immigrants, I never had to learn another language because well everyone speaks English. It's frustrating when you want to learn a language or speak to someone in a native language. I've even seen people of the same country speak English with eachother because one was usually here so long he lost his ability to fully completely speak his original language due to lack of practice. My ex got frustrated my Norwegian learning was going so slow. "Look at it this way, Everytime we talk, you speak English even if I'm trying to use Norwegian. I have no one to practice with or use it with" As an American it's tough to try and learn another language when the other half wants to use your language..on top of that, most Americans never leave even our home state, so the use of learning a language other than our own is useless and something we will lose over time if we got it fully. Unless you live in a Transient State where lots of people from other places come through like Florida or Texas or California, where learning another language is close to necessary to speak with the new people arriving or visiting.
If the singular they really does exist, why do he and she still exist? One could argue that he and she are just kinda there and that English is already a completely epicene language (like Finnish).
This video is very interesting as someone who is learning a dead language (..I didn't realize I was learning a "dead" language until I looked it up on Wikipedia. Learning Lenape/Southern Unami)
9.39-9.47 without getting into a wider debate about the AfD: how is lowering gov't spending an "anti common-person" policy? if the gov't spends less, then it also means it needs to collect less in taxes. isn't that *textbook* populism? it's precisely *for* increasing economic welfare, isn't it?
empirically, lowering government spending tends to only be good for the wealthy, the taxes you pay as a working class person are very low compared to the actual economic benefits you are getting. feels counter intuitive, but it works similarly to ideas like health insurance - it's in the long term cheaper to have it than not. HOWEVER, the economy is complicated. mismanaged government spending is sometimes worse than no spending at all. in my opinion, the working person / small business owner in germany pays WAYYY too much tax for what they're getting out of it. people pay massive amounts of their income in tax and it can be really detrimental to a lot of families. but the AfD isn't looking at that, they're looking at tax cuts for businesses and the wealthiest people in society. whose pocket do you think that money is going to come out of? who do you think the lower spending is going to affect? well, it's going to affect the little guy, the one with no steady work in their town who needs unemployment to get on their feet, and the small business owner who wants some stability provided by the government so they can get their business off the ground. combined with leaving the EU, which gives massive grants to help small businesses survive their first few years, help towns get more jobs etc, this economic policy is about draining all the resources of the economy upwards into big businesses and businessmen
I'm for merging "das" mit "der" + edit the graphic design to the out of shape letter "ß" + creating a new letter for "sch" it's already too Long 😔 (let alone the English J being "Dsch"). These are just some ideas for this madness.
about articles: i think that the definite article is perfectly fine: it helps with specificity; but the indefinite article serves no purpose whatsoever
TWO FACTORS: 1. As a left-hander, I always assuned it was because of smudging. Though actually since fountain pens were displaced, it's not a matter of the written material becoming smudged. It's the fact that the side of one's hand becomes gray when writing in pencil. 2. You've probably noticed a leftie crooking their wrist while writing. I've always assumed that it's more natural to pull the instrument than push it.
German's management of mixed gender plurals and unknown genders resembles Spanish imo. So does the idea of repeating noun for both genders. I think I could go on. Except for the ban on these language forms. I feel like I agree with all your politics opinions (for this video at least).
6:45 yes but formal speech has its own capitalisation except at the start of a sentence. Probably too much time to think because this part is probably supposed to be overwhelming to bring across the point. 7:15 maybe more grammatical error density can be if you refer to the same thing with different pronouns and you put punctuation everywhere.
So, Native Chinese people call Chinese “Chinese”, as in “你會說中文嗎?”. Why can’t westerners do the same? This whole “Mandarin, not Chinese” thing is a Western hang-up. This language group belongs to the Chinese people and culture- therefore it is Chinese.
1.Differentiating similar verbs by utilizing a random grammatical gender system is a horrible solution. It solves a minor problem at a very high cost-- having to memorize every noun’s gender. 2. Also, predicting one’s words by the gender of definite article is absolutely unnecessary because the noun comes right after the article. Why would you have the need to narrow the word selection down??
i am autistic and use emojis in that way and i read it pictographically (cant read faces though) ive seen enough anime and cartoons to get the pictographs intuitively
i just wish we had a gender neutral third-person singular pronoun in german. it just pisses me off to have to refer to nb people with gendered pronouns
Oh you thought grammatical gender sucked, oh you've seen nothing. say hello to grammatical declension types (i-type, u-type, n-type, o-type, etc, along with weird combinations of multiple types)
Immersive translate has been a game changer for me while learning a foreign language. It has been such a nice experience and I enjoyed learning foreign languages with it.
I am against a ban of gender inclusive language, because a) the freedom of choice should be more important and b) it's easier to find people with weird world views if said people can use the Gendersternchen etc.
The more you get used to a language, the more you understand the grammar and correct grammar can sometimes make a sentence way easier to understand, because you get used to the internal logic and your brain interprets those rules almost automatically which speeds up the reading speed. Even though the structure erm... well sucks, it does make a difference in larger and more complicated texts, heck even regular conversations that sometimes have an edge case benefit from this
So funny how when America has its own system for things people rant and rave about it and how america needs to conform to the rest of the world, meanwhile here everyone is praising the "beauty" of writing objectively wrong in the incorrect direction. You even have people claiming they must rotate the page sideways to write without smudging. Dont you think it would be easier to write the correct way?
