what can I say? In the 7 or so years I've been a customer there, the ladies' customers have been men only. yw...and your Sharks are beating my Capitals 3-0 at last check. the tournament kicked off the season? Interesting switch. And glad you got revenge on the kid .
Today I climbed one of our Pacific NW mountains. I did it in wearinfg a pair of sneakers, shorts and a Tshirt. I generally suggest people have a backpack with proper equipment, maps, survival gear, etc. but today I threw caution to the wind and decided to face the elements with nothing but the clothes on my back. The mountain was Mt. Tabor, and like most of our mountains it's an extinct volcano. This volcano is only about 636 feet high though, and is a great city park. To be honest, I drove up about half way and then walked the rest of the way on a mainly cement path.
I had another tutoring session with my student. I taught her some English & she taught me some Dari. This is actually very good for her; teaching someone your own language forces you to comprehend rules of language more deeply.
As a "foreigner" I think the English language was an easy language to learn. The rules are pretty simple and with the impact that English speaking movies, games and music has had on western culture has at least given me a lot of free lessons. I learned most of my English from playing video games and reading fantasy novels. Granted I am no expert, but I do manage to make myself (somewhere) understood without turning to Google translate. German on the other hand. That was a struggle.
American English has no rules. The Queens English has plenty. Or so I have been told by some smart Alec I used to work with
True! German was more than a struggle! All those grammatical cases! Bleh! English on the other hand was easy-peasy. One of my favourite subjects. If I understand correctly, Danish grammar is horrible (even to the Danes!)
Really? Even as a Dutch-speaker? I thought that the two were often mutually understandable. I took German for 2 years and aside from some memorization (of the genders) and getting used to the weird (to an English-speaker) word order, I didn't think the grammar was that bad.
I can think of a half-dozen places I'd rather be right now at this exact moment, but I'm still happier to be at this job than at my old one!
"ain't got no rules" is a good example of the point of a book my Mom saved that was a textbook my Dad used in 1947. The idea was , if you want to express a point, keep it short and simple, don't beat around the bush. "Ain't got no rules" is simpler than "We don't have any rules". Well, actually that is a POOR example, but maybe you get the point, lol.
That's why English as spoken in the south is so perfect. We have eliminated many unnecessary letters and syllables. Instead of saying "I am going to", we say "ah moan" as in "ah moan go to the store". Another example is getting rid of the unnecessary G at the end of words like goin' fixin' eatin' etc.... If I could only get auto correct on board. It took me twice as long to type this as it should have.
Then, please explain "fixin' to" as indicative of intent or as future tense. Y'alls ain't fixin' nothin'.
First of all, y'all is plural and never has an s on the end. That would be like saying sheeps. As to Fixin' it is used in the sense of preparing as in " I'm fixin chicken for supper" or it is used to indicate imminent intention, as in "I'm fixin' to make supper". Therefore it is perfectly understandable to all southerners when someone says " I'm fixin' to start fixin' supper."