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There are no articles in Chinese.
The object is assumed to be in the same number as the subject.

My mind. = Fucking blown.

>> No.2176670

what

>> No.2176867

By "articles" do you mean the words "the", "a", and "an"? There are no articles in Japanese, either, and in most cases there is no distinction between singular and plural.

>> No.2176869

>>2176867
>there is no distinction between singular and plural.
that's because individuals don't mean shit in oriental cultures

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>>2176869

>> No.2176879

OP here, yes not indefinite or definite, its very intriguing how they use particles, suffice and such to make sentences work.

>> No.2176900

This is why it should be a crime to raise monolingual children. I wonder if OP will survive realising that some languages don't have adjectives or adverbs.

>> No.2176920

>>2176869
yes

>> No.2176937

That's a funny thing in OP's picture.
Presumably, it's from a comedy routine.

>> No.2176945

>>2176900
to be fair most multilingual people know only very similar languages, people who are fluent in both east asian and latin based languages are rare and even then both kinds of languages are sophisticated enough to have adjectives and adverbs

>> No.2176948

OP here, No.2176900 you shouldn't be so forceful of these things, you should know as language pertains to culture. Do not be so rude, unless you're a Capitalist?

>> No.2176953

>>2176948
>No.2176900
you just come from 2chan or something

>> No.2176970

I'm amused. Linguists in my /sci/?

>> No.2177002

>in before this devolves into some /int/ level faggotry

>> No.2177069

>>2176945
>people who are fluent in both east asian and latin based languages are rare
yes, rare. except, you know, all those asian immigrants in western countries. granted you were probably thinking the reverse.

>> No.2177074

>>2176948
>Dear Journal, today I found 4chan, the people seem nice, I haven't gotten to all the boards yet bu- OMG WHY IS THAT MAN EATING FECES!?

>> No.2177092

There are many languages that don't have articles.
This thread is dildos.

>> No.2177147

a lot of languages are like that.

also, did you know the majority of the world's languages put the verb at teh end of the sentence?

>> No.2177148

Russian, also, has no articles.
Neither does Chechen

>> No.2177195

>>2177147
Indeed, SVO vs SOV

>> No.2177215

>>2177069
I've grown up with a lot of Asians being Australian. The majority of the young ones can only speak English and ones that are very old can't speak it for shit.