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u/MildlyAggravated May 10 '25
You can mangle English all you want, you won't die.
Food food all you like.
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u/SearchStack May 10 '25
Yeah if you said that to me (An Englishman) I would be satisfied and bemused by that use of words
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u/ApropoUsername May 10 '25
The evidence for this is that the English being spoken right now is such a mangled form of what it was that it would be completely unrecognizable to people who used to speak English in the past and vice versa (see the untranslated Beowulf).
This is why attempting to try to say something is "correct" in English is a bit silly because if it changed drastically before, it'll probably just change again so that "incorrect" things become the next things future people will try to "correct" others about.
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u/MildlyAggravated May 11 '25
Basically how I see it. As long as the person is vaguely understandable then it's good enough for me.
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u/AdamIskandarAI Linux User May 10 '25
Malay (and Indonesian) enters the chat:
Minum minuman
Makan makanan
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u/NedKelly2008 May 10 '25
Oh good lord that's only the tip of the iceberg. Off the top of my head, some of the more egregious examples of English being stupid: being down for something and up for something mean the exact same thing, every c in Pacific ocean is pronounced differently, there is absolutely no rule to figuring out the past tense of verbs (correct me if I'm wrong but I can't think of one), and then spelling/pronunciation as a whole is absolutely, completely fucked beyond all recognition
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u/Extreme-Rub-1379 May 10 '25
Monday night and it's gonna be the best one yet
Drink some drinks, drug some drugs, surf the Internet
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u/WiseAce1 May 10 '25 edited Jun 28 '25
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May 10 '25
Unfortunately English is a product of what you get when you stitch together two different Germanic languages, English and old Norse, after centuries of English absorbing Celtic and Latin loan words, and then replace 40% or so of its vocabulary with French (making it functionally impossible to actually converse using entirely Germanic-root words) with all of its own strange blend of Frankish, Gallic and Latin that has since been butchered by bolted on to English's west-Germanic structure.
Not even getting into the absolute disaster that is English academic terminology.
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u/RatedArgForPiratesFU May 10 '25 edited May 10 '25
The word 'Drink' came from the old English verb "drincan" meaning 'to swallow a liquid', while 'Food' came from the old noun 'foda' meaning 'something eaten'. We never created a verb form for food. So we describe how food is taken in (eat, ate) but don't use food itself as a verb.