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Good question, my native tongue doesn't have too many rules by fiat. The one thing that always gets me is when people stick an English word in the middle of a s
by biohacker42 18y ago
Good question, my native tongue doesn't have too many rules by fiat. The one thing that always gets me is when people stick an English word in the middle of a sentence and then modify it with a native prefix or suffix. And it's a natural thing for people to do, grab a word you hear a lot and shim it into your native language.
But if you're fluent in both languages that kind of mixing just sounds soooo wrong!
- jibiki 18y agoPersonally, the closest I could come up with was the pen/pin distinction (unless I concentrate on it, I pronounce both words the same way.) I'm pretty sure that fiat English is natural English for somebody, because any unnatural rules (like not ending a sentence with a preposition) will disappear eventually.