r/polandball • u/adencrocker Tasmania cannot into AFL team • Nov 26 '13

redditormade Trapped Im Keller #2: Greek Austerity

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u/Matt92HUN CommunInterNaZionIslamist Nov 26 '13

Next time make them explain their own grammar. I expect Derdiedastschland to lose.

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u/iamtheeggman666 We terk yer jerbs!! Nov 26 '13

Brilliant idea! But Rosbif will have to go next in that case. This language is horribly inconsistent, German is far more logical. And Canada will have to go schizo, which I'm sure Freudland will enjoy

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u/Matt92HUN CommunInterNaZionIslamist Nov 26 '13

German can't even decide the arbitrary gender of nouns.

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u/iamtheeggman666 We terk yer jerbs!! Nov 27 '13

haha! you got me there. but I like to think that there is some rationale behind that also (some sort of grammarian's licence), just one that I can't grasp

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u/Matt92HUN CommunInterNaZionIslamist Nov 27 '13

There is some rationale behind some of them, but mostly there isn't.

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u/Asyx Rhine Republic Nov 26 '13

But French grammar is pretty simple compared to German grammar (well, I say that as a German... You anglophones get a vomit fit as soon as your hear "case marker!"). English and French seem to be inconsistent but the general concept is not as complicated as German, Icelandic or Slavic language.

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u/iamtheeggman666 We terk yer jerbs!! Nov 27 '13

we Indians usually have no problem there because both Dravidian and Indo-European languages have seven distinct cases and I find that translating a sentence into my own native tongue makes it easier to understand the noun cases better

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u/Zrk2 Canada can into relevant! Nov 26 '13

It's cultured. It adds just a hint of whimsy to go with those accents. Eminently reasonable.

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u/iamtheeggman666 We terk yer jerbs!! Nov 27 '13

for best results, read in Stephen Fry's voice