SavvyWolf@pawb.social to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoHave you drank enough water today?message-squaremessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1136arrow-down116file-text
arrow-up1120arrow-down1message-squareHave you drank enough water today?SavvyWolf@pawb.social to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square44fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareisyasad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 months 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-up4·5 months 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-up2·5 months 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.