Here Come The Irregulars
Jan. 26th, 2006 07:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beige_alertToday’s Frank And Ernest cartoon is sure to appeal to those learning this crazy language. Or any other language, really, but this joke is in English.
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Date: 2006-01-26 05:40 am (UTC)I always hated it how the teachers used to trick us with every new language we learnt - "This rule applies to all verbs - except for some VERY few exceptions."
Very few my arse :p
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Date: 2006-01-26 06:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-26 11:12 am (UTC)Exactly. Endless chances to make the native speaker wince.
So what languages have you studied, besides the obvious two?
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Date: 2006-01-26 12:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-26 02:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-27 11:26 am (UTC)And by the way - many Germans don't know the finesse of the grammar, you won't believe how often things get confused. It always makes me wince... and a foreigner can't be supposed to know things even many natives don't get right.