Jun 16, 2020
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This is true, but I'd say that for me it has come quite naturally.

English is something I heard on tv and the tv shows were American and English. We studied French from when I was 8 or something, until I was 18. So this is a long process and it does involve a lot of reading. Italian I learnt mainly from living there, so obviously you take in the culture.

It's interesting you say that though, because I noticed that sometimes native English speakers are not only not adept at speaking other languages but also completely oblivious to cultural differences. They say and do incredibly rude stuff. Of course I might make similar mistakes in Japan or Tunisia, in countries I don't know at all. But they can be so crass in Europe.
Cool man where did you live in Italy?
 

AFL_ITALIA

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Jun 17, 2011
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See British girls have those personality traits but they also like F1 and Sunday roast. A lot more complex than American women :agree:

+6ft or swipe left, bitch.
The height requirement :touched:

How about this for a change? Don't remember if I posted it before or not :p
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For the major part of the words you can already see if it are male or female words, because it ends for a ‘a’ or ‘o’. Than there are a few exceptions which you might have to learn but overall it isn’t the end of the world of you make a mistake with it
Oh yes this I know, but I mean I just find it strange and perhaps interesting that in Italian for example you have 4 ways of saying "the" with no difference in meaning whatsoever, but you would say "il bicchiere" because somewhere along the line, it was universally decided that my glass on the table here is a male.
 

IliveForJuve

Burn this club
Jan 17, 2011
18,959
The height requirement :touched:

How about this for a change? Don't remember if I posted it before or not :p
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Oh yes this I know, but I mean I just find it strange and perhaps interesting that in Italian for example you have 4 ways of saying "the" with no difference in meaning whatsoever, but you would say "il bicchiere" because somewhere along the line, it was universally decided that my glass on the table here is a male.
Foot fetish is pretty vanilla. I smashed a girl who had a spit fetish. She wanted me to spit in her mouth.
 

swag

L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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For some reason Brits think they invented sarcasm and that it's a unique characteristic of their humour.
Kind of like so many cyclists who believe they're the only people on the planet who enjoy coffee.

I can understand the concept behind verb conjugation and how that could be beneficial, but I think the concept of gendering of objects will always seem strange to me tbh. My computer and bed are male but my chair is female for some reason, does this really add anything?

I know it doesn't make sense to look at it in that way since that's just not how the development of language works, but it's just so foreign of a concept to me as someone that has grown up in a family that has spoken only English for the past ~60 years. And I know full well that English doesn't really "make sense" very often as well :p

Do you mean to tell me that "wine" and "travelling" are not personality traits too?
Just think about Italian. Keeping la bella figura is important. It's a language where nobody asks, "How do you spell that?" Because nobody has to.

And one of the ways Italians keep bella figura is linguistically (as well as their digestive systems). That means there's a harmonious connection between gendered words and not a clunky injection of some Anglo gender-free concoction. How are you supposed to sing for the gods if every few words is a Teotonic klunker? Nothing rhymes with backpfeifengesicht.

See British girls have those personality traits but they also like F1 and Sunday roast. A lot more complex than American women :agree:

+6ft or swipe left, bitch.
Sunday roast? Just like the SS wives.

Foot fetish is pretty vanilla. I smashed a girl who had a spit fetish. She wanted me to spit in her mouth.
I'm not sure where that comes from. I mean, ok, we have the bottom of shoes and feet in the Middle East. But spit?

I mean, hey, whatever turns you on. But I have to ask questions about her daddy issues.

Yom Kippur is past us now pal
Speaking of Sunday roast.

A gunman killed his neighbour, her daughter and teacher here yesterday. Absolutely shocking to read his 4chan posts. Has set her house, his house and parts of the hospital (he was a med student) on fire.

https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/436995585
Dude. I mean, do I have to here?
 

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