Monday, September 27, 2004, 00:07 GMT
"The English progressive is difficult."
-- Nothing is difficult if you have half a brain. Stop complaining about the difficulty of languages on Antimoon! Just sit down and learn them, even if you're so thick that you have to miss a night of sleep to master a single grammatical concept.
"Why don't the words wet, spit, hit...have past tenses?"
-- Also, do NOT ask WHY there is no discrete past tense for "hit", why you should not use the subjunctive for "j'espère qu'il *sera*", why there are cases in German but none in Spanish, why English spelling is barmy, why "moustache" and "barbe" are feminine. Good God! Just learn the quirks of the languages and do NOT try to find out WHY, WHY, WHY as if they were scientific theories!
The answer to all of your "why, why, why" questions is thus: No reason, no explanation, please shut up, especially if you're an English learner (people who speak and write English fluently may be interested in language evolution, etymology, etc. but if you are an English learner, especially if you still can't get your verb tenses right, you should really focus on *learning* and not *questioning*.)
-- Nothing is difficult if you have half a brain. Stop complaining about the difficulty of languages on Antimoon! Just sit down and learn them, even if you're so thick that you have to miss a night of sleep to master a single grammatical concept.
"Why don't the words wet, spit, hit...have past tenses?"
-- Also, do NOT ask WHY there is no discrete past tense for "hit", why you should not use the subjunctive for "j'espère qu'il *sera*", why there are cases in German but none in Spanish, why English spelling is barmy, why "moustache" and "barbe" are feminine. Good God! Just learn the quirks of the languages and do NOT try to find out WHY, WHY, WHY as if they were scientific theories!
The answer to all of your "why, why, why" questions is thus: No reason, no explanation, please shut up, especially if you're an English learner (people who speak and write English fluently may be interested in language evolution, etymology, etc. but if you are an English learner, especially if you still can't get your verb tenses right, you should really focus on *learning* and not *questioning*.)