Comment on Is it hard for native speakers of languages that use 漢字 to learn ABC as it's different to their own?

• leadore@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “Like you potatoes?” is how English used to work, before “do” started being used sometime in Middle English. It’s still preserved in things like the nursery rhyme “Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool?”, etc.

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• adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The answer is: English has a Germanic grammar, not a Latin grammar.

  This can be confusing since we have so much Latin syntax layered on top of that.

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  • YaBoyMax@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ironically enough, “Like you potatoes?” Is essentially how the question would be asked in modern German (“Mögen Sie Kartoffeln?”).

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  • farmgineer@nord.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I thought do-support was thought to have come from the Celtic influence?

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