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dwise1
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Message 46 of 52 (426804)
10-08-2007 8:20 PM
Reply to: Message 43 by Modulous
10-06-2007 9:13 AM


Irregular verbs are awful, aren't they? We have nearly 200 of them! It's about the same amount in German, but Italy has over double the amount we have, and Latin has double that! Nearly 1,000 irregular verbs, which is presumably why students of the language get so confused: "People called Romanes, they go, the house?"
As a general rule, the more a word gets used, the more it is subject to change. For example, for very nearly every single German verb, the present subjunctive is absolutely regular ... except for the most commonly used verb of all, sein ("to be").
So the main problem with irregular verbs is not so much that they're irregular, but they're also among the most commonly used verbs in the language. So almost from the start, language students have to dive right into the irregular verbs; they can't avoid them. And the good thing about irregular verbs is that they're so common. We'll definitely learn them very well because we're going to use them all the time, getting in plenty of practice.

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Damouse
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Message 47 of 52 (427089)
10-09-2007 5:48 PM
Reply to: Message 45 by Wounded King
10-08-2007 7:05 PM


I think it must be esperanto, but im not quite sure
wiki says:
Esperanto words are derived by stringing together prefixes, roots, and suffixes. This is very regular, so that people can create new words as they speak and be understood. Compound words are formed with modifier-first, head-final order, i.e. the same way as in English birdsong vs. songbird.
The different parts of speech are marked by their own suffixes: all common nouns end in -o, all adjectives in -a, all derived adverbs in -e, and all verbs end in one of six tense and mood suffixes, such as present tense -as.
Esperanto - Wikipedia

This statement is false.
Yeah so i lurk more than i post, thats why my posts are so low for two year's worth of membership. So sue me.

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Taz
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Message 48 of 52 (427106)
10-09-2007 7:34 PM


Just wondering if anyone else is keeping track of Simple's posts in the geological time scale and the flood thread?
This is a perfect example of how many creationists write. The sentences make sense until you read them in context of the conversation.

Disclaimer:
Occasionally, owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have used he/him/his meaning he or she/him or her/his or her in order to avoid awkwardness of style.
He, him, and his are not intended as exclusively masculine pronouns. They may refer to either sex or to both sexes!

  
Dr Adequate
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Message 49 of 52 (427408)
10-11-2007 11:29 AM


The Cuttlefish And The Flying Pig
I don't think I've posted this one here ... enjoy.
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The Cuttlefish And The Flying Pig: An Aureate Amphigory
By way of prologema, I should explain to the less sagacious of the maculate multitude the appearance of order Sepiida in the rubric of these dithyrambic versicles. It is an allegorical figure, signifying those sophistical sciolists who, like the cuttlefish, expend superfluous quantities of tenebrous fluid in order to obscure their own position.
I'll not obnubilate my views by waxing metaphorical;
eschewing all hyperbole, I'll state as categorical:
a supermundane altitude's a feat that's quite prosaic for
domestic Ungulata deemed uncleanly by Mosaic law.
When acephalic aolists aver that I'm erroneous
I'll ply my polysyllables and won't be parsimonious.
My argument's bromidical, that just as every pigeon is
the genus Sus is volant and ascends to heights vertiginous.
When hireophants of orthodoxy prate that I'm heretical
I postulate a syllogism wholly anthetical;
with words sesquipedalian and vatic as a Druid I
explain the airy element's not alien to Suidae.
When obscurantists obfuscate, whatever my opponent says
I'll get quite logorrheic and in sundry altitonant ways
point out the airborne habits and the aviform taxonomy
of suiforms explicitly condemned in Deuteronomy.
I'll answer every eroteme with marvels of magniloquence
and show my view's veridical with erudite consilience.
With plethorae of syllables and logic that is Boolean
I'll prove that porcine genera inhabit the cerulean.

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jar
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Message 50 of 52 (427427)
10-11-2007 12:16 PM
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10-11-2007 11:29 AM


Re: The Cuttlefish And The Flying Pig
With apologies to G&S?

Aslan is not a Tame Lion

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EighteenDelta
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Message 51 of 52 (427439)
10-11-2007 1:33 PM
Reply to: Message 49 by Dr Adequate
10-11-2007 11:29 AM


Re: The Cuttlefish And The Flying Pig
I enjoyed this one, must be the hyperpolysyllabicsesquipedalianist in me.
-x

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Dr Adequate
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Message 52 of 52 (427442)
10-11-2007 1:49 PM
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10-11-2007 12:16 PM


Re: The Cuttlefish And The Flying Pig
With apologies to G&S?
Sir, you shall trap me into no such confession --- if those two charlatans wish to claim copyright over paeonic tetrameter, they should contact my solicitor.

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