Gallant! Heroic! A regular irregular Jeanne d’Arc! Is it true that tongue massage and mouth-stretching exercise is conducive to mastery of irregular verbs?
Humph! Try explaining why English is so mixed up to Hispanic students. Should have stuck to Latin. Try conjugating the most basic word, “To Be”. “What’s the rule, Teach?” “The rule? The English liked having sex with foreign girls.”
@CoBass: Here’s the exact quote by James Nicoll for your reference: “The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”
re: Blog – BadlipreadingI had to pause about a third of the way through, I was laughing too hard to catch a breath… And perhaps the funniest part is that he could possibly be saying some of these things without the voiceover.Thanks T, I found a new site to bookmark!
In yesterday’s Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, a girl was featured who did something strange. She had surgery to lengthen her tongue so she could speak Korean more fluently.
So I just showed my mom the Frog Blog entry which made her famous, and she was a little concerned to see that it appeared on a site with the word “obituary” in its URL. I assured her that she has not died.
English is, I think, the only IE language in which the infinitive is not an affix, but a particle-verb construction. In all other IE languages, including Latin, the infinitive is formed by an inflective affix which cannot be grammatically separated from the root verb. Since this is not true for English, it is not only possible to grammatically split an infinitive, but it is an effective rhetorical device for adding drama or emphasis.
Sisyphos about 13 years ago
Gallant! Heroic! A regular irregular Jeanne d’Arc! Is it true that tongue massage and mouth-stretching exercise is conducive to mastery of irregular verbs?
doc white about 13 years ago
pardon my french.
runar about 13 years ago
I prefer the Ugric languages because they typically have fewer irregular verbs than Indo-European.
The Old Wolf about 13 years ago
Faut surtout maîtriser l’usage du passé surcomposé avant Que l’on ne puisse être considéré un guru des verbes…
lewisbower about 13 years ago
Humph! Try explaining why English is so mixed up to Hispanic students. Should have stuck to Latin. Try conjugating the most basic word, “To Be”. “What’s the rule, Teach?” “The rule? The English liked having sex with foreign girls.”
Yosarian about 13 years ago
There’s your problem right there..between the bicuspid and the polycuspid
Oxnate about 13 years ago
RE: Dragon Pizza. That’s actually the logo for the Mortal Kombat franchise.
http://www.themortalkombat.com/
The Old Wolf about 13 years ago
@CoBass: Here’s the exact quote by James Nicoll for your reference: “The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”
“Cribhouse Whore”… that’s funny.
The Old Wolf about 13 years ago
@Flight Suit: Thanks for sharing your mom’s story with us. Fascinating!
cleokaya about 13 years ago
I have a mastery of French irregular herbs.
cleokaya about 13 years ago
@ Flight Suit, that was a nice thing that you did for your mom.
MajorPlowshares about 13 years ago
re: Blog – BadlipreadingI had to pause about a third of the way through, I was laughing too hard to catch a breath… And perhaps the funniest part is that he could possibly be saying some of these things without the voiceover.Thanks T, I found a new site to bookmark!
iced tea about 13 years ago
In yesterday’s Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, a girl was featured who did something strange. She had surgery to lengthen her tongue so she could speak Korean more fluently.
FLIGHT SUIT about 13 years ago
So I just showed my mom the Frog Blog entry which made her famous, and she was a little concerned to see that it appeared on a site with the word “obituary” in its URL. I assured her that she has not died.
runar about 13 years ago
English is, I think, the only IE language in which the infinitive is not an affix, but a particle-verb construction. In all other IE languages, including Latin, the infinitive is formed by an inflective affix which cannot be grammatically separated from the root verb. Since this is not true for English, it is not only possible to grammatically split an infinitive, but it is an effective rhetorical device for adding drama or emphasis.
judyparka about 13 years ago
Good comments today.
Oxnate about 13 years ago
RE: TODDLER ON THE WING
From the movie Addams Family Values.