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>....as the languages are actually quite similar. They're actually quite not. Try typing something into www.deepl.com - verb placement alone separates the lang
by InCityDreams 4y ago
>....as the languages are actually quite similar.
They're actually quite not.
Try typing something into www.deepl.com - verb placement alone separates the languages by much more than a few shared roots.
* I do so wish the German rules on the pronunciation of 'ei', and 'ie' could be/ could have been internationally adopted.
- AlbertCory 4y agoI hosted Greil Marcus at Google. His first name rhymes with "real" and not with "style" as one with German training would expect. I asked him about that. He said in Alabama where he was born this was fairly common.
- still_grokking 4y ago>> ....as the languages are actually quite similar. > They're actually quite not. Of course German and English are very close related. Both are Germanic languages. Look here, in the right lower corner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages#/media/File:IndoEuropeanTree.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages#/media... Or here: https://alternativetransport.wordpress.com/2015/05/05/34/ https://alternativetransport.wordpress.com/2015/05/05/34/ Not only words and grammar are closely related even most of the idiomatic "pictures" are exactly the same in both languages. I have also no clue what you mean by "verb placement alone separates the languages" as both languages use by default SPO (subject - predicate - object) word order. (German is a little bit more flexible in this regard, though).