“We don’t recognize that marriage. The Catholic Church says-”
“Yeah, they got married without it annulled.”
“So no, we don’t see-”
“He left me!”
“Yep… mhm.”
The English language is certainly a challenging one to pick up if you are not already familiar with any of the Romantic or Germanic languages. English truly is a mash up of a lot of things. When I consider “slang” or pigeon tongues branching out of it, I cant help but consider those may even be MORE evolved than High English.
Even as a written language we have lots of punctuation marks that allow us to express speed of conversation, interruption, excitement, contemplation, consideration… the list goes on.This range affords us the opportunity to express ourselves not only verbally, but in written form (not all languages have this gift), thus we can look back at what was stated and garner the speaker’s intentions regardless of time.
For those who are just now picking up the English language, please have some consideration for the way in which their mother tongue may work. Perhaps in a few years English will have adopted some of the mistakes you may notice the person has made!
