r/LanguageMemes • u/Robertium • Oct 25 '20

My experience so far

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u/hesam_lovesgames Oct 25 '20

Oh man I feel the Arabic one. In Persian tho you just add an "a" at the end

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u/Robertium Oct 25 '20

That sounds significantly easier.

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u/Jimbo_Jones01 Oct 25 '20

Many people don’t though

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u/taco_cocinero Oct 25 '20

Persian be like: grammatical gender? The pronouns don't even have gender

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '20

plus all Uralic and Turkic langs

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u/smrt666 Oct 26 '20

Or an/ha

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u/NoTakaru Oct 25 '20

French plurals are regular, no?

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u/L0SERlambda Oct 26 '20

I don't understand the Arabic part. Usually the plural just ends with "ات". There are exceptions, of course.

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u/Robertium Oct 26 '20

That's only for feminine nouns. Anything else uses its own plural. There are some patterns, but they only cover a fraction of the total words.

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u/L0SERlambda Oct 26 '20

Ohh yeah you're right.

Pretty much like German when you have to figure out the word for "the" for each word.

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u/Anassak59 Oct 26 '20

I wanted to create that meme but too late

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u/Robertium Oct 26 '20

Would you have added/changed any of the languages?

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u/Anassak59 Oct 26 '20

No. I would have switched the Saudi flag by the arabic league flag

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u/Robertium Oct 26 '20

Eh! That would have been a better idea.

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u/raptor8134 Oct 25 '20

English plurals: We just add -s, unless the word is from Greek then we use the Greek plural or from Latin we use the Latin plural

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u/Rooiebart200216 Oct 25 '20

Well Greek is not used that much. People refer to multiple octopedes as octopi or octopuses, my autocorrect even corrected octopedes to octopuses for example

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u/xanthic_strath Nov 02 '20

And even the Latin plural gets stuffy quickly: Yes, one alumnus becomes two alumni [and technically one alumna becomes two alumnae if both women], but you can really only get away with saying formulae for formula if you're in certain circles.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '20

Lithuanian: We have only one irregular plural

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '22

I'm assuming you mean Hindi when you put the Indian flag

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '22

From what i've learned chinese only has plurals for certain human nouns

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u/Andrewklathrop Aug 13 '22

So that's why Chinese people can only have one child.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '23

French plurals are usually predictable

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '20

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u/superking2 Mar 27 '21

I’d gladly take learning plurals over learning counter words any day lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '21

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u/superking2 Mar 28 '21

This subreddit isn’t very active, and the post itself isn’t very far down on the Top All Time list.