Comments by "EebstertheGreat" (@EebstertheGreat) on "Что можем сказать по-английский, отличие от много других языков" video.

  1.  @bacicinvatteneaca  That just sounds like a mistranslation.
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  2. Speaking of numbers, English has all kinds of systems of numbers that range from infrequent to rare. We have cardinals (one, two, three, four, ...), ordinals (first, second, third, fourth, ...), multipliers (single, double, triple, quadruple, ...) which also come in another form (once, twice, thrice) and yet another (onefold, twofold, threefold, fourfold, ...), distributives (singly, doubly, triply, quadruply, ...), collectives (singlet, doublet, triplet, quadruplet, ...) or (duo, trio, quartet, ..., though these are sometimes considered distributive), but also twin, pair, couple, brace, dozen, gross, etc., composites (unary, binary, ternary, quaternary, ...), ranking (primary, secondary, tertiary, quartary, ..., though in practice "quaternary" is usually used for the fourth), partitives (whole, half, third, quarther/fourth, ...), and others (e.g. deuce, triad, trinity, duplicate, triplicate). Too many if you ask me.
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  3. How are they translating "He's a friend of mine"? « Il est un de mes amis »?
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  4. Even within English, the term "arm" varies in meaning. Most people mean the entire upper limb by the "arm" (or at least the part above the wrist), but anatomically, the "arm" is only the part of the upper limb from the shoulder to the elbow. Between the elbow and the wrist is the "forearm," which is not part of the "arm" in this definition.
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  5.  jan simonides  Yeah? I'm not sure if you're trying to contradict me or something...
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  6.  jan simonides  I just . . . what does Slovak have to do with anything? I never suggested "other languages have got no cardinal numbers." That doesn't even make sense.
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  7.  jan simonides  I don't know what you mean. The video is about rare features in English. Some of them were nearly universal to Europe, as he pointed out, but rare elsewhere. Nobody is suggesting any of these features are unique to English. He goes out of his way in the video to point out exceptions.
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  8.  jan simonides  What he says is, "the way English compares with an adjective plus a suffix plus this compare particle [than] is rare outside Europe." He then goes on to contrast it with the ways many other languages handle comparison. The point of the video isn't "look how special English is," it's "look at all these things you take for granted that most of the world does differently."
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  9.  jan simonides  Is Slovak not a European language?
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  10.  jan simonides  Did you watch the video or read my comment? Nobody suggested English was somehow unique except you. The quote you are objecting to says that this style of comparison is rare outside Europe. Slovak is inside Europe, so it hardly contradicts that.
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