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Do you like languages and linguistics ? Here is for having fun about it


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I’m moving my posts from Reddit to Lemmy before delete them.

This post is from 2021-03-09.

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[–] Jakylla@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While at the same time:

Perplex woman with maths problems over her face
Japanese: 私 (Watashi, Atashi, Watakushi, Atakushi), 僕 (Boku), 俺 (Ore)

Multiple monkeys searching banana on a tv show
French: Je
Italian: Io
German: Ich
English: I

[–] Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Imagine a language talking the hardest part of every sentence

  • Japanese pronoms

  • german adjectives

  • french verbs

  • Counting system from whatever asian language separating male/female/animals/objects

  • Czech declination

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Lithuanian has no articles. Is still extremely complicated.