@Boob Usually when you see the message "You've gained a privilege", click on the profile button inside that red bar, it will take you to the description of your new privilege... Otherwise you can see what you can do by comparing your reputation with the tab inside the FAQ section... just saying :D
@Alenanno Yeah, it's just that we were right in the middle of discussing the better options already when you came in with your totally inferior ones. :P
I mean, how often do I have to link to not one, but two most excellent answers by an actual linguist and a native speaker of English before people actually read them?
I thought I would do the OP a service by not closing it outright as a dupe of the ice-cream question, since I figured that would have been rather confusing,
Yeah well... Frankly, I have no idea how it has developed through Old, Middle and Early Modern English, so I suffer from the chicken-and-egg problem: I could only tell you with more confidence whether the question would be on-topic if I already knew the answer.
@Alenanno But back to your question: in English, you would label a photo "me and my wife" (not "I and my wife"); in French, it would be "moi et ma femme" (not "je et ma femme"); in German, it would be "ich und meine Frau" (not "mich und meine Frau"); in Russian it would be "я и моя жена" (not "меня и моя жена").
(Cue Vitaly saying something about "мы с моей женой"...)
Norwegians, among others, seem to ask/say things like: "do you close the door?", "do you bring keys?". This becomes harsh and impolite on a normally very kind language in use. This is not correct.
I'm not sure if that is the same as you are asking..
Yeah, but the answer is yet another case of "I have no idea what the question is really about, but let me nonetheless ignore the hints and links posted in the comments")))
A shot in the dark while someone next to you is actually holding the flashlight.
Unmarked kind of means just that: you just know it by heart without much thinking.
For example, as Kosmonaut mentioned just the other day, "-s" for plural is the unmarked form. It's the default. You don't have to remember anything special to get from "door" to "doors" or from "refrigerator" to "refrigerators".
But in order to get from "man" to "men" or from "ox" to "oxen" you need extra machinery. So these forms are marked.
Same with pronouns. Me, him, her are the default.
You need to have a verb around or some other special circumstances to turn them into I, he, she.
Nohat has explained that much better and in more detail in those answers of his I have linked to.
When saying or identifying people in a photo- John, Valencia, and I (or me)?
Norwegians, among others, seem to ask/say things like: "do you close the door?", "do you bring keys?". This becomes harsh and impolite on a normally very kind language in use. This is not correct.
I'm not sure if that is the same as you are asking..
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…