[Novalug] WAY OT: Latin noun plurals

Garrett Nievin gnievin@comcast.net
Fri Dec 12 10:56:02 EST 2008


I always told the professor that Latin grammar was great but
not perfect.  Given a couple pots of coffee and an all-nighter, we
could finish it right up.  He didn't care for it.

Cheers,
Garrett


On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:36:08 -0500 (EST)
Bonnie Dalzell <bdalzell@qis.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Garrett Nievin wrote:
> 
> GN >Agree completely.  I find myself constantly apologizing to my son for
> GN >our ill-formed language.
> GN >
> GN >What kind of language results in a society which is impressed with the
> GN >people who win contests to correctly spell the words?  That's seriously
> GN >messed up.  The very existence of spelling bees is laughable.
> I truely agree with you there1
> 
> I suffer from a serious inability to spell English or American correctly 
> in many circumstances. I am not sure if it is some sort of dislexia or he 
> fact that I went to 11 different schools between pre-school and high 
> school graduation (plus 4 college - post grad). And of course they were 
> in different parts of the country adding to the burden of different 
> regional accents. I mean for the longest time I though there was an "R" in 
> the name of this nation's capital city ....
> 
> On the other hand I keep having a sense that PERL does not have 
> consistant rules. Why do you use parens to chomp but not to sort for 
> example.
> as
> 
> 
> GN >
> GN >Cheers,
> GN >Garrett
> GN >
> GN >
> GN >On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:51:12 +0000 (UTC)
> GN >rarob@comcast.net wrote:
> GN >
> GN >> I've always been dumbfounded that people *can* learn the English language at all, considering
> GN >> how much of a collection of different languages.  Watching my kids learning the rules and exceptions
> GN >> to those rules (debatable point as to which set is larger...) has been both amazing and amusing.
> GN >> When I did have Latin in high school (2 years, 25 years ago) I thoroughly enjoyed how precise it seemed, 
> GN >> compared to English. 
> GN >> 
> GN >> -R
> GN >> 
> GN >
> GN >
> GN >
> 
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