If the nounification of "ask" annoys you, wait till you meet "attach" as a noun.
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Replying to @collision
Imo English’ polymorphism is its biggest strength. This language is so flexible.
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Replying to @TrevMcKendrick @collision
Je ne sais pas ! No seriously, french is great for poetry but very complex and inflexible. You have to think 10 words ahead of time to decide how you’ll structure your sentence — and often end up stuck and have to backpedal if you didn’t.
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Replying to @Altimor @collision
I like always thought English was rigid because in the only other language I know well (Spanish) you can basically put the subject wherever you want in a sentence, including leaving it out entirely
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Replying to @TrevMcKendrick @collision
Ha, didn’t know that! English’ flexibility is really about the culture too, there’s a high tolerance to just making up words on the flypic.twitter.com/09QDMaaLBW
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In Russian word order doesn’t matter at all, and is used to denote emphasis, which makes sense only because words themselves “decline” and you’ll use one of many versions of a word based on what part of a sentence it’s used for
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Replying to @AustenAllred @Altimor and
In German you can just add a “not” at the end of the sentence and completely change the meaning of your last 30 seconds of speech.
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