Random Rants XXIX: Watch your %*$@ Language!

[Mathalamus]

how can you be slightly kinda locked out?

 

[Takhisis]

I never said that Gaelic was difficult to learn (but, oh man, it is). It's that learning Latin doesn't make it any easier.

Ah, but i haven't learned latin in the first place.

Guys guys, The "Let's bash the country full of ultra-nationalists who think they were the most important country in the past 2000+ years and currently rule the known universe" thread is that way -->

There's a thread for bashing Ingerland? Where?

I might have to pay to get my laptop repaired considering it's a part that snapped!

did you expect to have it repaired for free?

 

[azzaman333]

how can you be slightly kinda locked out?

Doesn't matter, I found a way in. Through the window that I shouldn't leave open all the time.

 

[Takhisis]

That's why he was only slightly locked out it seems .

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Wow stayin up this time wa not a good idea. Im very tired bed now

 

[classical_hero]

Once you know Latin, any western language is easier to learn!

English would not be part of that, since it is a Germanic Language, using a Latin Alphabet with Arabic numerals.

 

[Arakhor]

With heavy French and Graeco-Latin influence.

 

[classical_hero]

It's a terrible language, but it is the general use language.

 

[Arakhor]

I think it's a startlingly rich and varied language, myself, but YMMV.

 

[Takhisis]

What do you mean English is not a Western language? It's not Eastern like Polish.

 

[Yared]

"To walk into"
"To enter"

Different phrases meaning the same things...

 

[Tee Kay]

I should be out drinking tonight. But I had to say no...

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Recurring headache, I think over a week now.

 

[bhsup]

"To walk into"
"To enter"

Different phrases meaning the same things...

You can walk into a wall, but you cannot enter a wall.

 

[Takhisis]

You can enter your pasword, but it's different from walking into it.

 

[Yared]

edit: double post

 

[Takhisis]

No, you can enter it by jumping over the wall.

 

[madviking]

You can walk into a bar, but you can't enter it.

 

[Arakhor]

Maybe if you're Scottish, but most English people use the door.

 

[Yared]

You can walk into a room and it will not be different from entering it. I'm talking about the physical act of moving yourself into a room.

Or well, that's not really true, is it? I can think of one difference between those two things:

English -> Swedish (Germanic)
"To walk into a room" -> "Att gå in i ett rum"
"To enter a room" -> "Att gå in i ett rum"
Att gå = To walk

English -> Spanish (Latin)
"To enter a room" -> "Entrar en una habitación"
"To walk into a room" -> "Entrar en una habitación"
Entrar = To Enter