/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20494521]

Daily reminder that pretty much every native anglo speaker don't know the word for the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow.

They lack such mental concepts.

[Anonymous No.20494530]

>>20494521
ESL

[Anonymous No.20494532]

>>20494521
(yesteryest and tomorrowmore, for the uneducated)

[Anonymous No.20494536]

>>20494532
sounds like made up harry potter bullshit

[Anonymous No.20494540]

>>20494532
no, overmorrow and ereyesterday, retard.

[Anonymous No.20494546]

>>20494540
that's the American English version, which makes it technically incorrect

[Anonymous No.20494553]

>>20494546
yes, and we speak today american.

english is just an irrelevant dialect of american.

[Anonymous No.20494555]

>>20494521
I don't know meal times in my native language, so I always had to skip them while learning foreign languages.

[Anonymous No.20494557]

Monday and Friday. Dumbass.

[Anonymous No.20494628]

>>20494553
>we speak today american.
and an ooga booga to you, too, friend!

[Anonymous No.20494741]

>>20494532
>>20494540
It's actually "yesterday but one". Read some Faulkner.

[Anonymous No.20494758]

>>20494628
nobody thinks about portugal, france, spain and UK when we talk about portuguese, french, spanish and english.

Their colonies are now what you imagine when you talk about those languages.

>but but
euro cope.

[Anonymous No.20494847]

I've been speaking english for 15 years and i still don't know the weekdays that aren't friday, saturday and sunday


help

[Anonymous No.20494894]

>>20494847
>he thinks Saturday and Sunday are weekdays

[Anonymous No.20495268]

Oh, you just watched that Ready to Harvest video too.
lol

[Anonymous No.20495277]

>>20494521
>They lack such mental concepts.
why would i lack such a concept? i can just say "the following day". just because one doesn't have a neat word like "le lendemain" doesn't mean entirely lacks the concept, shown by the fact that i can understand what you mean by "the day after tomorrow"

[Anonymous No.20495280]

>>20494847
I was going to type them out but then I remembered Google exists

[Anonymous No.20495310]

>>20495277
name 5-10 types of clouds.

>do I lack the concept
yes, name at least 5 types of clouds.

[Anonymous No.20495913]

>his """language""" doesn't have a word for the day before the day before yesterday

[Anonymous No.20495983]

>>20495310
cumulus
nimbus
cumulonimbus
stratus
cumulostratus

[Anonymous No.20495989]

>>20494521
"two days ago" sounds more coherent and less silly that yesteryest which sounds like Dr. Suess gibberish

[Anonymous No.20496005]

>>20495310
mushroom cloud
rain cloud
snow cloud
fog cloud
ash cloud
dirt cloud
sand cloud
vape cloud
smoke cloud
toxic cloud
reefer cloud
hazy cloud
mind fog
brain fog
fart cloud
cum cloud (ever came underwater?)
cloud of confusion
cloud of memories
dust cloud
gold dust cloud
train cloud
exhaust cloud
diesel cloud

Not as hard as you think you stupid pseud.

[Anonymous No.20496027]

Apparently the ides of a month are different days for different months but I can never remember them except I think they're all multiples of five.

I do remember the quirks of the gregorian calendar, though.

[Anonymous No.20496036]

>>20494521
>every native anglo speaker don't know
>they lack such mental concepts
speaking of lacking mental concepts...

[Anonymous No.20496056]

>>20496027
>not counting your knuckles like an autist
NGMI

[Anonymous No.20496058]

>>20496027
Put both your hands in a fist with the back of your hand facing up. Now join them together at your index fingers and align your knuckles in a row. Now go from ridge to valley, ridge to valley, starting from the left. The leftmost ridge of your left pinky is January. The leftmost valley between your left pinky and left ring finger is February. All ridges have 31 days. All valleys have 30 days, except February. Notice how the knuckles (ridges) of your pointer finger butt against each other leaving no valley. These two ridges represent July and August. Remember that ridges have 31 days, so July and August have 31 days.

[Anonymous No.20496064]

>>20496056
I just posted this explanation but then realized he was talking the about THE IDES and not the number of days in a month...

[Anonymous No.20496067]

>>20496064
desu I barely read what he said
'tis the /lit/ tradition etc.

[Anonymous No.20496077]

>>20494557
Kek, that’s the best one anon.

[Anonymous No.20496080]

>>20494521
>>20494540
Surprisingly, I knew the words in japanese but not in english (明後日 and 一昨日)

[Anonymous No.20496154]

>>20496064
March, May, July and October have Ides on 15th. You can easily remember the "Halloween" Jack'o'lantern that predicted "March May Julius die". Every other ides is on the 13th.

[Anonymous No.20496163]

>>20496154
>March, May, July and October have Ides on 15th. You can easily remember the "Halloween" Jack'o'lantern that predicted "March May Julius die". Every other ides is on the 13th.
meant for >>20496027

[Anonymous No.20496178]

All cope for the Internet immortalizing modern English as the world's primary language. I had to write a 5,000-word essay on this shit and how it relegates other languages, even more widely-spoken languages, to a secondary status. It is what it is.

[Anonymous No.20496250]

>>20496067
Yes thank you.

>>20496163
Why though? Why were the Romans so autistic like that? ffs just make every 15th the ides and then it can pull double duty as the middle of the month.

[Anonymous No.20496273]

>>20494557
the correct answer

[Anonymous No.20496629]

>>20494758
This is incorrect, frenchmen live rent free in my head. They've made the whole place smell of piss.

[Anonymous No.20497410]

>>20494521
the-day-before-yesterday
the-day-after-tommorow
Problem solved.