It is my first — and pretty much only — language, and I still find elements of it to be perplexing. ;-)
Dan
The English language grammatical core per say (sic) is simple enough, it is the bewildering multitude of exceptions, idioms, neologisms, colloquialisms, loan words from other tongues and god knows what not, which make it exceedingly complex. Thus, we all feel and even look perplexed while we speak English. One can try to counter that effect by talking fast and/or mumbling, however, that exposes us to a risk of appearing silly.
Truly, not much grammar policing is happening on the forum these days, because the principal Monito(rs) are sadly absent.
The danged language has two primary roots, which is why we have words like hard-sounding words like \"stench\" and \"stink\" (from the northern Europeans) and soft-sounding words like \"fragrance\" and \"odor\" (from French) for roughly the same things. Then American English (a funny label... \"Amglish?\" Engrican?\") picked up more words and expressions from pretty much all of the people who ended up living together here.
As a teacher (but not of English) I see every day the perplexed looks on the faces of students trying to figure out why we say \"the boy runs\" and \"the boys run,\" why people go \"to school\" but \"to the hospital,\" or why you, glue, through, flu, and chew all have the same ending. ;-)
By the way, if and when this mythical camera appears, I can predict some of the following forum topics:
- Two-face Canon shooters used to claim 22MP was enough but now demand 46MP!
- I found banding in my 46MP Canon file! Yay!
- No one needs 46MP!
- The cost of file storage makes this impractical! We\'ll all have to buy new computers!
- Increasing MP count will reduce DR and create too much noise!
- I\'ll wait until the 75MP version comes out in 4 years!
- They can make a 46MP sensor but they can\'t get rid of the direct print button!
- The 22MP sensor camera had a more film like image quality.
It is my first — and pretty much only — language, and I still find elements of it to be perplexing. ;-)
Dan
The English language grammatical core per say (sic) is simple enough, it is the bewildering multitude of exceptions, idioms, neologisms, colloquialisms, loan words from other tongues and god knows what not, which make it exceedingly complex. Thus, we all feel and even look perplexed while we speak English. One can try to counter that effect by talking fast and/or mumbling, however, that exposes us to a risk of appearing silly.
Truly, not much grammar policing is happening on the forum these days, because the principal Monito(rs) are sadly absent.
The danged language has two primary roots, which is why we have words like hard-sounding words like \"stench\" and \"stink\" (from the northern Europeans) and soft-sounding words like \"fragrance\" and \"odor\" (from French) for roughly the same things. Then American English (a funny label... \"Amglish?\" Engrican?\") picked up more words and expressions from pretty much all of the people who ended up living together here.
As a teacher (but not of English) I see every day the perplexed looks on the faces of students trying to figure out why we say \"the boy runs\" and \"the boys run,\" why people go \"to school\" but \"to the hospital,\" or why you, glue, through, flu, and chew all have the same ending. ;-)
By the way, if and when this mythical camera appears, I can predict some of the following forum topics:
- Two-face Canon shooters used to claim 22MP was enough but now demand 46MP!
- I found banding in my 46MP Canon file! Yay!
- No one needs 46MP!
- The cost of file storage makes this impractical! We\'ll all have to buy new computers!
- Increasing MP count will reduce DR and create too much noise!
- I\'ll wait until the 75MP version comes out in 4 years!
- They can make a 46MP sensor but they can\'t get rid of the direct print button!
- The 22MP sensor camera had a more film like image quality.
It is my first — and pretty much only — language, and I still find elements of it to be perplexing. ;-)
Dan
The English language grammatical core per say (sic) is simple enough, it is the bewildering multitude of exceptions, idioms, neologisms, colloquialisms, loan words from other tongues and god knows what not, which make it exceedingly complex. Thus, we all feel and even look perplexed while we speak English. One can try to counter that effect by talking fast and/or mumbling, however, that exposes us to a risk of appearing silly.
Truly, not much grammar policing is happening on the forum these days, because the principal Monito(rs) are sadly absent.
The danged language has two primary roots, which is why we have words like hard-sounding words like \"stench\" and \"stink\" (from the northern Europeans) and soft-sounding words like \"fragrance\" and \"odor\" (from French) for roughly the same things. Then American English (a funny label... \"Amglish?\" Engrican?\") picked up more words and expressions from pretty much all of the people who ended up living together here.
As a teacher (but not of English) I see every day the perplexed looks on the faces of students trying to figure out why we say \"the boy runs\" and \"the boys run,\" why people go \"to school\" but \"to the hospital,\" or why you, glue, through, flu, and chew all have the same ending. ;-)
Dan
Sep 18, 2014 at 12:22 AM
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