• NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
      7·
      14 hours ago

      I’ll give you a hint: it was painfully hard for me to resist capitalizing the “I”.

      I wanted to write it in a way that actually would be misunderstood due to lack of punctuation, but it was too much of a cognitive load. In my native language it’s really easy: for example, the difference between “No, I’ll do it” and “I won’t do it” is just a comma. But in English it’s not that easy.

      • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        11 hours ago

        In my native language it’s really easy: for example, the difference between “No, I’ll do it” and “I won’t do it” is just a comma

        Can you elaborate on that? 🤔

        • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
          4·
          9 hours ago

          Let’s say someone asks “did you check the thing?”

          In Hebrew, you can reply: “לא, אבדוק” meaning “no, I’ll check”.

          But if you drop the comma, it comes out as “לא אבדוק” meaning “I won’t check”.

          The negation of the verb is done by adding לא (“no”, or “not”) before the verb.