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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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Rgds |
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Peter |
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