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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:17 pm
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:26 pm
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:53 pm
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:56 pm
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:51 pm
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:27 pm
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Amphion Most of them are "invented" rules that people have made up to try and make English logical. (Never end a sentence with a preposition, never split infinitives, and so on, ad nauseum) Oh, and the I before E rule works if you modify it a bit... I before E, except after C, or when sounding as A as in neighbor and weigh, or in weird words like weird. Alas, that last clause pretty much sums up the way English works....
The preposition thing isn't really invented. Preposition = prae positum = placed before. If it's not placed before another word, it can't be a preposition. :/
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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:24 am
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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 5:08 pm
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My boyfriend put it very astutely,
In French, you have unnecessicary letters and accents In German, you have too many compound words In Italian, you have too many vowel ending words In Spanish, you have logical phonetics and accents with a couple exceptions In English, everything is screwed up so just go with it.
In case you can't tell, his native is Spanish. I am finding it difficult to learn, but hey, if he can speak fluent English, French, and Hebrew along with Spanish, I can learn German and Spanish.
Basically English is a big mess of all the nonsense from too many languages. That's what we get for being a "melting-pot"
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 12:38 am
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:59 pm
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:03 pm
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 3:07 pm
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 4:23 pm
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:47 pm
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:24 pm
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