Comment on Why do we say, "when I look in the mirror" instead of "when I look in a mirror?"
kabe@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoIMO, the first statement is half-stupid, the second one is half-overcomplicated :)
Welcome to English, my friend. No one ever clained that it wasn’t a pain in the arse to learn :)
ALERT@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
:) no, it’s not, because for people to understand you you don’t need to grasp 75% of the concepts of the English language, and IMO, this is the measure of “pain in the ass” of a language. so still not even half as complicated as Ukrainian and not even half a pain in the ass as Ukrainian :)