Can you speak your own language?

[sexually_inactive]

I'm not disclosing my family background here to protect my privacy but like most Australians and Americans, I don't speak my own language. Sometimes certain family members get upset with me because I speak other languages better than my own.

 

[yankii]

Haven't invented it yet but when I do, no.

 

[hippy dave]

I'm just a basic bitch English-speaking English person.

 

[VinsCool]

Non, je ne peux pas.

 

[x65943]

Non, je ne peux pas.

What is the monstrosity that is French, that you need 3 negating words in that sentence??

"No I not can a step"

Or

"Negate I negate can negate"

Interestingly "pas" I was reading is taken only as a negating word at the present time, and you could even say

Je peux pas

"I can step" meaning "I can negate" thus "I can't"

 

[VinsCool]

What is the monstrosity that is French, that you need 3 negating words in that sentence??

"No I not can a step"

Or

"Negate I negate can negate"

Interestingly "pas" I was reading is taken only as a negating word at the present time, and you could even say

Je peux pas

"I can step" meaning "I can negate" thus "I can't"

"No, I cannot."

It's not a double negative, it's literally coming in a pair of ne and pas, and ne tends to get dropped most of the time anyway.

 

[x65943]

"No, I cannot."

It's not a double negative, it's literally coming in a pair of ne and pas, and ne tends to get dropped most of the time anyway.

I meant there are 3 words with a negative meaning

Non
Ne
Pas

You are right in French it's totally grammatically correct

But from the view of English there are 3 words there all functioning in a negating sense

 

[yankii]

I meant there are 3 words with a negative meaning

Non
Ne
Pas

You are right in French it's totally grammatically correct

But from the view of English there are 3 words there all functioning in a negating sense

Is this why everyone hates the French?

 

[sexually_inactive]

I made a serious thread in a serious section but it ended up in this fucking burning dumpster fire.

 

[yankii]

I made a serious thread in a serious section but it ended up in this fucking burning dumpster fire.

"Is a dumpster fire burning?"

 

[CoolMe]

What is the monstrosity that is French, that you need 3 negating words in that sentence??

"No I not can a step"

Or

"Negate I negate can negate"

Interestingly "pas" I was reading is taken only as a negating word at the present time, and you could even say

Je peux pas

"I can step" meaning "I can negate" thus "I can't"

ah, another victim of the us education system..

"No, I cannot."

It's not a double negative, it's literally coming in a pair of ne and pas, and ne tends to get dropped most of the time anyway.

how dare you question a non-French speaking language expert telling you how your native language works?

 

[x65943]

ah, another victim of the us education system..

how dare you question a non-French speaking language expert telling you how your native language works?

you're just jealous of my power

 

[CoolMe]

you're just jealous of my power

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je suis pas jalous (figure that out too)

 

[MPRTwice]

I'm not disclosing my family background here to protect my privacy but like most Australians and Americans, I don't speak my own language. Sometimes certain family members get upset with me because I speak other languages better than my own.

I appear to prefer Spanish dialect in English:

-I have thirty seven years (of experience upon this earth).
-I feel happy. I am a teacher and more.
-I have hunger.
-Do you see that car, the red one?

Sometimes I have to explain those.

And this is how I address this puzzle of tonal inflections:

_Why_ are you giving me that?
Why are _you_ giving me that?
Why are you _giving_ me that?
Why are you giving _me_ that?
Why are you giving me _that_?

 

[MPRTwice]

you're just jealous of my power

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That seems kind of him, actually; Obi Wan is holding his back? "he's holding me back, ar ar ar!" Does Obi Wan shiver his timbers for him too?

 

[SylverReZ]

Haven't invented it yet but when I do, no.

 

[The Catboy]

I am German-American, Ich spreche kein Deutsch

 

[Veho]

My ancestors didn't move much so my country's language is my ancestral language so... I guess?

 

[SAIYAN48]

My ancestral Latin is better than family Italian.

 

[VinsCool]

how dare you question a non-French speaking language expert telling you how your native language works?

Touché, mon brave.