Dear German:

[highlyeccentric]

Go fuck yourself and your possessive pronouns too. Why can't you just decline your nouns like a sensible language? *sulks* NO ONE needs twelves separate forms of a single possessive pronoun!

Comments

[simon-stylites.livejournal.com]

I thought you had taken Latin?

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

Who, me? Nope!

[simon-stylites.livejournal.com]

Hunh. Well, why the heck not? I mean, besides the 18 forms of each possessive pronoun...

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

Didn't realise I needed it until it was too late to take first year classes. Also, my teachers decided french AND OE was enough for anyone.

[pro-ana-92.livejournal.com]

Ahh german is soo easy.
Well, not as easy as English, but I wouldn't really know as I grew up speaking english & german :)
If you ever need help just mail me on here :D

[tea-fiend.livejournal.com]

Are you mental, woman? Declining nouns is bloody murder. The Russians do it, and it fried my brain utterly. Give me English any day of the week - the world's greatest pidgin has no need for these archaic declensions.

[tess-mier.livejournal.com]

I do! I have a lot of possessions.
xox

don't do old irish

[(Anonymous)]

it declines everything. Nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, the article, and numerals. Yes, numerals. Some of them only. 1 never occurs without being attached to something else. 2 declines like an adjective, 3-6 also. 2 modifies nouns to take the dual. always. 7,8,9 don't decline. 20,30,40...100...1000 decline like nouns. Ordinals decline like adjectives. sort of

And "declining like nouns/adjectives" etc is complicated enough in itself.
Is scary.
Why am I taking it for honours? at beginners level? with a 5000 word essay to write on the stuff?
I am crazy.
Hope you're having fun fun fun.

don't do old irish

[(Anonymous)]

it declines everything. Nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, the article, and numerals. Yes, numerals. Some of them only. 1 never occurs without being attached to something else. 2 declines like an adjective, 3-6 also. 2 modifies nouns to take the dual. always. 7,8,9 don't decline. 20,30,40...100...1000 decline like nouns. Ordinals decline like adjectives. sort of

And "declining like nouns/adjectives" etc is complicated enough in itself.
Is scary.
Why am I taking it for honours? at beginners level? with a 5000 word essay to write on the stuff?
I am crazy.
Hope you're having fun fun fun.
XX april