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re: For those who know foreign languages, what are some weird things about English?
Posted on 7/1/20 at 2:48 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Posted on 7/1/20 at 2:48 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
The concept of "have" as a main verb trips up a lot of non-native English speakers. For instance, a French chick might say, "You are having a boner" instead of "You have a boner".
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Posted on 7/1/20 at 3:38 pm to Fat Batman
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The concept of "have" as a main verb trips up a lot of non-native English speakers. For instance, a French chick might say, "You are having a boner" instead of "You have a boner".
That is largely a relic of English's Germanic roots.
Du habst...
Ich habe...
Wir haben...
Modern English is tough because it's really a meld between the Germanic language family (Angle and Saxon) and the Romance Language family (Norman and Old/Middle French) more than any other rather being really tilted towards one or the other. Lots of Germanic structure with lots of Romance vocabulary.
This post was edited on 7/1/20 at 3:42 pm
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