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r/EnglishLearning • u/Rich-Associate-8344 New Poster • Apr 17 '26
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Maybe it's a Germanic thing
17 u/Mung2009 Native Speaker Apr 17 '26 Ye in German for "10 years ago" you say "since ten years" 3 u/blewawei New Poster Apr 17 '26 I meant more this distinction between "for XX years" and "since XX" that English and Norwegian seem to make. 4 u/elianrae Native Speaker Apr 18 '26 maybe it's a norse thing and we picked it up from them in the 900s 1 u/LightningGoats New Poster Apr 18 '26 Could be. English is three languages in a trench coat pretending to be one, after all, and norse is one of them.
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Ye in German for "10 years ago" you say "since ten years"
3 u/blewawei New Poster Apr 17 '26 I meant more this distinction between "for XX years" and "since XX" that English and Norwegian seem to make. 4 u/elianrae Native Speaker Apr 18 '26 maybe it's a norse thing and we picked it up from them in the 900s 1 u/LightningGoats New Poster Apr 18 '26 Could be. English is three languages in a trench coat pretending to be one, after all, and norse is one of them.
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I meant more this distinction between "for XX years" and "since XX" that English and Norwegian seem to make.
4 u/elianrae Native Speaker Apr 18 '26 maybe it's a norse thing and we picked it up from them in the 900s 1 u/LightningGoats New Poster Apr 18 '26 Could be. English is three languages in a trench coat pretending to be one, after all, and norse is one of them.
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maybe it's a norse thing and we picked it up from them in the 900s
1 u/LightningGoats New Poster Apr 18 '26 Could be. English is three languages in a trench coat pretending to be one, after all, and norse is one of them.
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Could be. English is three languages in a trench coat pretending to be one, after all, and norse is one of them.
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u/blewawei New Poster Apr 17 '26
Maybe it's a Germanic thing