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On Monday 11 July 2011 23:43:06 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Monday 11 July 2011 17:26:36 Sebastian Beßler wrote: |
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> > Am Mo 11 Jul 2011 17:18:16 CEST, Peter Humphrey schrieb: |
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> > > I doubt I shall ever accept 'reoccur', any more than I accept |
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> > > 'transportation'. |
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> > It's way OT but what is wrong with 'transportation'. |
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> > If it is wrong, how would it be right? |
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> It isn't wrong, it's just silly. Americans love to add '-ation' to |
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> everything. Just consider 'motivation', for example. It nearly always means |
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> 'motive'. Ditto 'medication', which is nearly always 'medicine'. I could go |
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> on all night, but this is much too far off topic already. (I didn't mean to |
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> launch a troll - I just get wound up about poor language - sorry. And while |
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> I'm at it, an adverb should not precede the verb of the sentence. This is |
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> not German. And in English we do not put a comma between the verb and the |
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> predicate. Anyone who wants to discuss things like this seriously is welcome |
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> to contact me off-list.) |
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> > I'm not a native speaker so I might be blind to see the error. |
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> I can see that, but i'm impressed by your grasp of your second language, |
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> which is incomparably superior to my grasp of your first. |
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well, your language is broken beyond help anyway (as everybody who was forced |
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to learn this clusterfuck* realized in the second or third week) so why get |
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your panties in a knot? It can hardly get worse. Maybe better. |
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*) most accurate description of the english language I ever read: |
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http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-07-22 |
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