If we say
I love Aevann more than you
Does that mean
I love Aevann more than I love you
or
I love Aevann more than you love him
Maybe I'm stupid but I can't figure it out which one it is, English isn't my native language and in my language there is clear difference between subject "you" and object "you".
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If you wanted to say
You'd probably say it like:
Otherwise it sounds like first option
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It can mean both but if I read it for both meanings the intonation is different in my head voice
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I got answers so it did go somewhere.
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In under 2 hours too.
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this feels more natural
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Thank you.
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know your place
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It could be either, based on context.
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It can mean both, itβs ambiguous like the gender of some people. The tone and context would dictate meaning. I am a native speaker (UNLIKE @chiobu ), so thatβs my explanation.
In the context of you cheating on carp with Aevann, then it would mean you love Aevann more than you love carp.
In the context of a thread with many people who love Aevann and think heβs great, then it would mean you love Aevann more than the person youβre talking to loves Aevann.
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Oh, that makes sense, but i would never cheat on Aevann. Thanks.
Edit: Oh I reread it, and I would cheat on carp tho, sorry fish.
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What's Marsey to him, or he to Marsey,
That he would weep for her?
@Transgender_spez
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umm singlish is cute and valid
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Singapore#English_as_the_main_language_of_Singapore
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You know it ainβt like that. Love you bro.
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singapore , the country where everyone is billingual. Eventhough in reality everyone just speaks two languages half as good .
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You catch no ball lah
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Is this common in language or is English just a giant
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Russian allows for the same ambiguous wording but it sounds awkward and every native speaker would rather choose one of the two distinct forms so idk. Maybe it's a synthetic vs analytic language thing
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In this case it's because the English collectively decided that the word 'thou' was kind of stupid sometime around 1680.
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In this case it's because the English collectively decided that the word 'thou' was kind of stupid sometime around 1680.
Also wait until you see Japanese levels of ambiguity.
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Quaddy I love you more than aevann can ever understand
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Yet you ban awarded me yesterday
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I was bored and you were in my way
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That would be the most direct meaning imo. Would partially depend on tone but the above would be the best in all realistic cases.
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THE KRAUT TRIES TO FIND LOGIC AND ORDER IN PERFIDIOUS ALBION'S TONGUE
and he fails...
Just think at the ambiguous -s at the end of a word, especially in spoken bong, that has like 10e3 different meanings
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#3 doesn't really parse as an affix for most people (and it's largely non-productive in both cases, best I can tell). #2 is the fault of the vikings (Old Norse btfo), and without it we'd have lost all regular inflection in the present tense by now. Who needs inflection when you can use auxiliary verbs and word order to resolve ambiguity.
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English is a dumb language a lot of time because it can be left ambiguous like other users have pointed you.
Just from what you wrote, if you said this to me, I would think that you were saying that you loved Aevann more than you love me⦠which is completely reasonable because Aevann is adorable.
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This would be acceptable but poor form in English. βYou should write I love aevann more than you doβ to indicate your love is greater.
While you can use contextual clues to solve the ambiguity, itβs still better form to be clearer in less words
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It depends where you put the emphasis
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Itβs the first one you illiterate r-slur
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man short people sure are angry always
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Lol you have 3 followers
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i do?!
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Yes itβs pathetic
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I have 4 now shorty
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Still doesnβt change the fact youβre Indian
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yes, an Indian who is taller than you
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Iβm taller than most Indians Iβve met and regardless even if I were shorter than you, at least Iβm not a disgusting street shitter sexy Indian dude lmao it never even began for you
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it's the first one
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it all means the same thing
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It's either because it's
badinformal English.We some words when using these comparative sentences: "My life matters more than yours" v. "My life matters more than your life matters."
Generally, people mean the first interpretation in your example, but they're still dumb as that rentoid Yankee.
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Since almost everyone replying is neurodivergent or a foreigner, let me spell how a native speaker would say this:
"I love Aevann more than you" = "I love Aevann more than I love you"
"I love Aevann more than you do" = "I love Aevann more than you love him"
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