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Superglue?

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I think we need a photograph to make better diagnosis.

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If the medical staff weren't too concerned I'd say just be patient.

I didn't go to my regular doctor because it would have been too far of a drive. I also didn't go to the emergency room because I would have been waiting around for over an hour. I just walked into a doctor's office down the street and paid cash. He seems like a nice guy, but getting any sort of info or hints out of him is like pulling teeth. He didn't tell me to get a finger splint. Then, when I asked about one, he didn't seem to indicate if he thought it would be a good idea or not.

If it doesn't heal, I may just go to my doctor after trying the steroid cream and/or New-Skin. I don't really care about the scar. I just don't want an ever-lasting flap of skin on my hand.

Oh yeah, if you're going to cut your hand, I recommend you do it with a Kershaw Leek. The doctor said it was good the knife was extremely sharp and made a clean cut.

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Yeah, well, you've got all those damned gendered nouns with all their special articles and pronouns.

Yes, grammatical gender (is that what it's called?), seven cases (and I don't know how many declensions) are not very simple for a foreigner, I immagine Where have you been exposed to those?

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What's so hard about English articles? You've only got three (and two of them are the same, really), distinguishing between a specific thing and a general thing. Or do you mean where to use them and where not to use them?

Well, for example, I remember (vaguelly - it was 30 years ago) learning about 17 situations where definite article is ommited, although by general rules it should be there... (Eg. one goes to the prison to visit somebody, but to prison to serve time, or something like that)

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Yeah, but "to run by/past" is more of a colloquialism anyway (which are actually the most difficult thing in every language since they follow as few rules as possible). "To discuss with" or something similar would be as accurate, and "with" would probably almost always be the correct preposition with them, as it would mean both parties were involved. "To speak to" would also be correct (in addition to "to speak with", but the prepostion "to" usually implies one-way action; I think "to speak to" meaning a discussion is also something of a colloquialism.

Sorry. I don't know why I'm going on and on about this.

As Phil said (thanks, Phil, BTW!), you are the Grammar Police, you are expected to talk about those things.

I should learn to avoid colloquialism unless I am quite certain about them. I knew "to discuss with", "to talk to", "to speak with", but this particular idiom somehow sounded cooler in the context...

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Americans "go to the hospital" whereas Brits "go to hospital".

Again it depends on if you're visiting someone or going for an operation etc. I would use either of the above.

I'd go to hospital to have my appendix removed, but I would go to the hospital to visit my friend.

Edit: Just re-read your post and think thats probably what you just said

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But English seems to be the only language on the planet where you don't have genders that aren't related to biological gender.

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I have read somewhere, I forget where, that English used to have gender.

Well, that's from the time when English used to be a Germanic language

For an opposite example, in Finnish, you can have a rather long conversation about a third person without revealing the gender of the person - instead of "He", "She" and "It", Finnish has "Hän" (He/She) and "Se" (It). I think the same applies for Estonian.

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Well, that's from the time when English used to be a Germanic language

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If it doesn't heal, I may just go to my doctor after trying the steroid cream and/or New-Skin. I don't really care about the scar. I just don't want an ever-lasting flap of skin on my hand.

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Virtually every language in Western Europe is Indo-European, including German and English, and always have been. Common exceptions are Finnish, Hungarian, and Basque. English is still a Germanic language, even if it has lost its genders, and even though so much of the vocabulary is Italic.

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...You need stitches, really...

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English is still a Germanic language, even if it has lost its genders

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English is still a Germanic language, even if it has lost its genders

Officially, yes. But it is a case of the old axe that is on it's third head and sixth handle - how much of a language can you replace and change and still claim it's the original?

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Why does that line about the axe make me think of Christianity?