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> which I have swutch to That's a past participle I've never seent before
by jihadjihad 2y ago
> which I have swutch to
That's a past participle I've never seent before
- purpleyhippo 2y agoSecond guessed myself and had to look up whether this was actually a word
- OJFord 2y agoIf it was phrased 'to which I have swutch' I don't think I'd bat an eyelid! (i.e. past perfect, I think?)
- seabass-labrax 2y agoIf 'swutch' is the (past) participle of 'to switch': Perfect: "to which I have swutch" Pluperfect/past perfect: "to which I had swutch"
- mattmaroon 2y agoGoogle says the correct term is, in fact, Nintendo Switch.
- lotsoweiners 2y agoI assume it lets you know where to buy one as well.
- mattmaroon 2y agoHow’d you guess?
- yazzku 2y agoTrust Google with the facts.
- smallnamespace 2y agoI find this all much ado ablaut nothing.
- dvfjsdhgfv 2y agomaybe you haven't liveth long enough
- jrochkind1 2y agoFor some reason part participles are particularly hard for me too (native English speaker who speaks no other languages fluently). (they must just be a mess in English? I can't imagine how non-native speakers ever get any of them) I'm going to go with swutcheted
- cyberax 2y agoEnglish verbs are pretty tame compared to Slavic verbs that can be modified with all kinds of perfective prefixes. On the other hand, Chinese verbs are even easier. They don't even have a tense!
- eynsham 2y agoI wouldn’t say that Chinese verbs have no tense so much as that they are uninflected and that tense is marked with particles (which admittedly do not cause difficulties with irregular infexions).
- cyberax 2y agoChinese technically does not have grammar tenses, but it has aspects indicated by particles. They mark the completion status, direction, presence, and so on. However, the verbs themselves don't have tense. So these sentences can be identical: "I will walk home, then I will eat a cake" and "I walked home, then I ate a cake". The overall timeframe can be given by a larger context: "Once my shift is over, I ..." / "I drank too much yesterday, that's all I remember: ". It's simply not possible in English because every verb has a grammar tense built into it.
- jjtheblunt 2y agoFor entertainment look up Germanic string and weak verbs.
- jjtheblunt 2y agoautocorrect unspelling above: string -> strong ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_strong_verb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_strong_verb )
- aidenn0 2y agoLike the joke of the guy returning to Boston after being away for years; asks his cab driver "Do you know where I can get scrod" and the driver says "Sure, but I've never heard that in the past perfect before!"
- xorbax 2y agoThis might be the first time I get a joke's punchline but not the setup
- 8bitsrule 2y agoHmmm. When I heard that joke long ago, the driver said it was the pluperfect subjunctive. And here I took his word for it.
- aidenn0 2y agoSame thing. From Wikipedia: "The pluperfect (shortening of plusquamperfect), usually called past perfect in English"
- 8bitsrule 2y agoAnother especially funny part of that joke for me is that this is set in Boston (which has a couple of important colleges) ... because someone once told me that a lot of post-graduates of that college I was attending were driving taxicabs in that city.
- canadianfella 2y ago[dead]
- D-Coder 2y ago"swutch" Compilation error at line 173.