>>>There will always be weird specific expressions, but what I'm describing is far closer (sic!) to regular usage. First you have the complete lack of verb forms (first and second person singular is identical to all persons plural is identical to imperative is identical to infinitive) so you must use pronouns for pretty much every verb. Then you forbid some pronouns and have to use wrong ones instead. The mess is complete, and it's not in just specific expressions, it's just whenever a third person is mentioned more than once in a sentence. A simple sentence turns into a minefield.
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>>I feel so bad for you that you have to use (hopefully not all the time but only when you come into UT) this grammatically messy language full of minefields. I am simply wondering, why do you torture yourself ...
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>Practicing the skill never hurt. Specially memorizing the minefield has kept us (!) in one piece.
I agree. Speaking about languages and difficulties one has with learning. For a me a pet peeve is the gender of inanimate objects. Why in Spanish a table is female but in Russian it is male? :)
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