Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoWhat is the (subjectively) weirdest word in the English language?message-squaremessage-square216fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the (subjectively) weirdest word in the English language?Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square216fedilink
minus-squareWFH@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month ago“To be” being highly irregular il a common feature of a lot of Indo-European languages. But there’s worse. In Spanish, “ser” and “estar” both mean “to be”, but have wildly different meanings and cannot be substituted for one another.
“To be” being highly irregular il a common feature of a lot of Indo-European languages. But there’s worse. In Spanish, “ser” and “estar” both mean “to be”, but have wildly different meanings and cannot be substituted for one another.