SavvyWolf@pawb.social to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoHave you drank enough water today?message-squaremessage-square43linkfedilinkarrow-up1137arrow-down116file-text
arrow-up1121arrow-down1message-squareHave you drank enough water today?SavvyWolf@pawb.social to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square43linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareisyasad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoThe fact that people so often use the past tense instead of the past participle is perhaps evidence that it doesn’t really matter, descriptively?
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years agoOnce you’re fluent you can use colloquialisms, sure, so yeah, descriptively it doesn’t matter really, but most people learning a language sort of need the rules so they can understand once those rules start getting bent or broken. Imo.
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoI think that it’s a sign that English could stand to regularize further.
The fact that people so often use the past tense instead of the past participle is perhaps evidence that it doesn’t really matter, descriptively?
Once you’re fluent you can use colloquialisms, sure, so yeah, descriptively it doesn’t matter really, but most people learning a language sort of need the rules so they can understand once those rules start getting bent or broken. Imo.
I think that it’s a sign that English could stand to regularize further.