I just finished Virent Ova! Viret Perna!
I never took Latin in school, I'm getting better though. I mean, what better way to learn than with the books I learned English on, right?
There wasn't a "switch" though, there'd always been both Mac/Mc (son of) and o (which is Gaelic for "of") as long as there had been surnames.
o is actually its own word, seperate from "of" which is from the Germanic root (cf. German "auf"). When o got Anglicized, it became O' and then the natural confusion.
Every day I struggle to make my degree in linguistics relevant. Today's about average.
You know though, that within two weeks we're going to see an interview with Darl where he's saying "SEE! THEY STOLE SYS V CODE AND PUT IT INTO LINUX! TOLDJA! TOLDJA! THEY ADMIT IT!"
But hey, this whole fiasco's been about SCO's self-imposed myopia, why should it stop now?
I'll just say that common historical linguistic theory disagrees with you. English syntax and grammar really shares very little with the Italic branch. Syntax hasn't really modified much since the Germanic base absorbed some of the Goedelic features present in the original Celtic languages of Britain to form Old English.
Grammar's modified a bit more than that, but it's more of an across-the-board simplification than Italicization.
English is not in any way Latin-based. Latin derived from what is called a proto-Indo-European language, as did Ancient Greek, the Slavic language family (Russian, Bulgarian, Czech), several Indian languages (many derived from Sanskrit), the Celtic languages (Welsh, Gaelic, and some relatives), some (but not all) other stuff geographically in the middle, and the Germanic language family, which includes all the Scandinavian languages, German, Dutch, and... yep, good old English. English's closest linguistic "relative" is Frisian, which is spoken in some islands in the SW corner of the north sea, off the coast of the Netherlands and Germany.
Latin, of course, spawned off the "romance languages": Italian, Spanish, Portugese, French, and Romanian, plus some smaller non-national languages and dialects.
This is also true to a much lesser extent of the Roman invasion of Britain a thousand years earlier or so, but it didn't last nearly as long. So, while English picked up some Latin-derived vocabulary, it is not a Latin-based language structurally any more than Greek, Russian, or any other non-romance language that assimilated some Latin words over time, or that you could say almost any major language in the world today that has assimilated a lot of English vocabulary is "English-based."
and free of culture. The problem with a construct language is that people don't WANT to learn it -- there's no inherent literature, film, history, etc. that becomes available to you by doing so.
Yeah I know there was an Esperanto movie. Exactly my point of free from culture.
'The UK's broadband boom is likely to falter unless more progress is made towards combating digital piracy'
Because the general populace HATES getting entertainment in a medium of their choice for free. What they REALLY want is a lot of constraints on using their entertainment purchases, and really aggressive copyright holders to sue them when they think they might have stepped out of line.
Oh yeah, need DRM in there quick or this "internet" thing will never catch on.
is if you can't go off the topic list. Let's face it, email to the president is sorted through by low/un-paid employees who sort it into pretty much the stuff listed, and that statistical report is what W sees:
"Ok, Mr. President, here's the breakdown today:"
23% of emails on Iraq, 43% positive.
18% of emails on the tax cuts, 57% positive.
11% of emails on the economy, 32% positive.
6% of emails on the environment, 22% positive.
42% of emails on pleasing FLOTUS longer. Oh, and 34% of those were from Mrs. Bush herself. Should I schedule some time at Camp David, Sir?
But IIRC years later some major company was looking for advisors for some major project, so who'd they go to? The guy who patented it -- Feynman ended up making a little money off the consulting about whatever general idea he'd had at Los Alamos.
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I assume that's a property in the UK version of the game. Is it the one just before Go (aka "Boardwalk" in the U.S.?)
I just finished Virent Ova! Viret Perna! I never took Latin in school, I'm getting better though. I mean, what better way to learn than with the books I learned English on, right?
Some that have started to sign up?p?
Well if it takes months to sign up, no wonder fewer than 12 people have been interested.
o is actually its own word, seperate from "of" which is from the Germanic root (cf. German "auf"). When o got Anglicized, it became O' and then the natural confusion.
Every day I struggle to make my degree in linguistics relevant. Today's about average.
I hereby certify we are running no unlicenced code that has been proven to be the copy of SCO/Caldera.
Kisses,
the CIO
P.S. We won't be buying any more, add us to your do not solicit lists.
I, however, sneer at NASCAR and WalMart the entities, making me the very epitome of manners.
You know though, that within two weeks we're going to see an interview with Darl where he's saying "SEE! THEY STOLE SYS V CODE AND PUT IT INTO LINUX! TOLDJA! TOLDJA! THEY ADMIT IT!" But hey, this whole fiasco's been about SCO's self-imposed myopia, why should it stop now?
Rememember, when you need to stop a good thing dead, call for People who don't get jokes.
--Grandpa Simpson
The Simpsons Episode 2F31 "A Star is Burns"
a big honkin' retcon job.
"No, no, I said that a 'Caldera's a smoking crack.'"
[rimshot]
Thanks folks, I'll be here all week!
Grammar's modified a bit more than that, but it's more of an across-the-board simplification than Italicization.
Latin, of course, spawned off the "romance languages": Italian, Spanish, Portugese, French, and Romanian, plus some smaller non-national languages and dialects.
Cow: Beef (Boeuf)
Sheep: Mutton (Mouton)
Pig: Pork (Porc)
Chicken: Poultry (Poulet)
This is also true to a much lesser extent of the Roman invasion of Britain a thousand years earlier or so, but it didn't last nearly as long. So, while English picked up some Latin-derived vocabulary, it is not a Latin-based language structurally any more than Greek, Russian, or any other non-romance language that assimilated some Latin words over time, or that you could say almost any major language in the world today that has assimilated a lot of English vocabulary is "English-based."
Not that I'm (twitch) addicted (twitch) or anything...
Yeah I know there was an Esperanto movie. Exactly my point of free from culture.
I'll do anything to keep UK pop music as far away from me as possible.
Because the general populace HATES getting entertainment in a medium of their choice for free. What they REALLY want is a lot of constraints on using their entertainment purchases, and really aggressive copyright holders to sue them when they think they might have stepped out of line.
Oh yeah, need DRM in there quick or this "internet" thing will never catch on.
The Earth rotates about its axis.
Oops!
Umm... I do.
"Ok, Mr. President, here's the breakdown today:"
23% of emails on Iraq, 43% positive.
18% of emails on the tax cuts, 57% positive.
11% of emails on the economy, 32% positive.
6% of emails on the environment, 22% positive.
42% of emails on pleasing FLOTUS longer. Oh, and 34% of those were from Mrs. Bush herself. Should I schedule some time at Camp David, Sir?
Gamera is good to eat!
He is filled with turtle meat!
We're all eating Ga-me-raaaaa!
Harry Potter VIII? The planned run of the series is 7 books.
But IIRC years later some major company was looking for advisors for some major project, so who'd they go to? The guy who patented it -- Feynman ended up making a little money off the consulting about whatever general idea he'd had at Los Alamos.
The views expressed immediately prior are not necessarily those of MENSA, of which I wish I were a member."
The statement of a counterfactual like that calls for the subjunctive.
Wow, I knew that linguistics degree would come in handy some day!