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[Shadow of Darkness]

Quark is doing German since I think 13 years now and he still doesn't get the difference between Dativ and Akkusativ

I know. But from what I read from him he's getting better.

 

[Sipyloidea]

And even the new Felix' were not of much use I heard.

True that. And also other languages e.g. German, English have Latin influences if not roots.

well yea they do, but they're mostly anglo saxon. Those others are still way closer to latin. In the anglo saxon languages you mostly only notice the latin influence by technical terms.

 

[Shadow of Darkness]

Where did you go? *wonders*

 

[Sipyloidea]

I know. But from what I read from him he's getting better.

well I know that he messes mir and mich up about every time

 

[Sipyloidea]

Where did you go? *wonders*

I wasn't actually planning on being on the forum anymore, so...

 

[Zombi]

Well you can ask Kris about learning German. Or Quark. They don't know cases from their language so it's really tough for them to imagine them.

I could do the cases, just never remember genders. There just never seemed any system to it, why is "the door" this gender and "the universe" that gender? Am I really expected to remember a gender for every fucking noun there is?

In the end I just gave up and to this day I always just guess. hell 1/3 of the time i'm right

 

[Shadow of Darkness]

well yea they do, but they're mostly anglo saxon. Those others are still way closer to latin. In the anglo saxon languages you mostly only notice the latin influence by technical terms.

Yeah, I know. I visit once a Sophomore English Class and they just talked about roots of and influence on the English language. Was quite interesting.

 

[Shadow of Darkness]

well I know that he messes mir and mich up about every time

True that. And ihn/ihm.

I wasn't actually planning on being on the forum anymore, so...

So you're leaving me?

I could do the cases, just never remember genders. There just never seemed any system to it, why is "the door" this gender and "the universe" that gender? Am I really expected to remember a gender for every fucking noun there is?

In the end I just gave up and to this day I always just guess. hell 1/3 of the time i'm right

 

[Shadow of Darkness]

An Atheist Meets God

No offense.

 

[Sipyloidea]

I could do the cases, just never remember genders. There just never seemed any system to it, why is "the door" this gender and "the universe" that gender? Am I really expected to remember a gender for every fucking noun there is?

In the end I just gave up and to this day I always just guess. hell 1/3 of the time i'm right

yea, there is no system. Same with Latin btw.

 

[Shadow of Darkness]

yea, there is no system. Same with Latin btw.

Also im Regel sind a- und o- Deklination maskulin, ebenso die konsonantische, aber dann gibt's Ausnahmen und die MUSST du lernen... - Originalzitat. So oder so aehnlich.

 

[Zombi]

yea, there is no system. Same with Latin btw.

So is it all just etymology? I mean, what about new words that get introduced? It seems so arbitrary to me.

 

[Shadow of Darkness]

So is it all just etymology? I mean, what about new words that get introduced? It seems so arbitrary to me.

New words? I never heard about anyone introducing new words. Ok, maybe I missed that...

 

[Sipyloidea]

True that. And ihn/ihm.



So you're leaving me?

I already left a while ago

Also im Regel sind a- und o- Deklination maskulin, ebenso die konsonantische, aber dann gibt's Ausnahmen und die MUSST du lernen... - Originalzitat. So oder so aehnlich.

ja ok, in Latein gibt es mehr Regeln es zu erkennen. Nur keine Regeln warum die Worte diese Geschlechter haben.

So is it all just etymology? I mean, what about new words that get introduced? It seems so arbitrary to me.

Yea, kinda. New words like from English can be used with any gender, but it happens that one gender seems to fit better by another and becomes more common.

 

[Zombi]

New words? I never heard about anyone introducing new words. Ok, maybe I missed that...

I meant when they get introduced from other languages.