If you read up and calculate a bit, you will see that a more effective bomb will be made by firing the ball at the bullet. Strange (not so, just physics) but true...
I hate myself for showing grammar nazi-tendencies, but what can you do?
2. Yes, ellipses are common, perhaps I should have thought of that. But as a comparative philologist by education I couldn't let that one slip:-)
3. When speaking/writing English, I would use a sentence structure such as yours, as that matches my native idiom "Skriva mamma din ett brev" very well. I suppose you don't know Swedish, and therefore can't see how I use word order instead of prepositions to mark case. The case is always there at some level...
4. I was aware of what you were saying. The problem is that you can't use German as an analogue. As English doesn't have a dative, you can't use that as a term of comparison. You could say that "German marks the indirect object with the dative case, whereas English might use preposition."
Therefore the claim that anything is dative in English is incorrect, with the possible exception of the form whom, which is a remnant of the Old English dative case. You seem to confuse grammatical form with function, On the other hand, this is no easy subject, things are often not what they seem!
First let me tell you I'm really sorry for having to be a grammar Nazi. However the post above isn't completly right, nor completly wrong:
1. To know some German is always useful, that's true.
2. German is not the "root language" of English. Their most recent common ancestor seems to be West-germanic, but let us not delve into that.
3. Not all arguments to the verb write is in the dative case. If that were really so, there would be no need to overspecify with case-markers and prepositions. The truth is that the verb takes arguments from a variety of cases. Since the English surface form of a verb most often do not specify grammatical case you have to do it some other way. That other way is most often by use of prepositions.
However in some cases, there's in no doubt of the arguments grammatical case. If that is so you can safely leave out prepositions and such.
4. English doesn't work the same as German, never has, and propably never will. Oh, there are some glaring similarities, nothing more, nothing less. Now start reading the fourth item again!
The people prosecuted are prosecuted by swedish laws in a swedish court. Oh, they are swedish citizens as well... You can't prosecute crimes not commited in Sweden in swedish courts. That is mostly a good thing.
In the swedish judicial system judges do exactly what the title implies, they judge. That is on check off the list. The prosecutor is the one who authorizes the police to do raids.
The upside of this system is that you get no appearent benefit from bribing the judge. The downside is that you only have to bribe the prosecutor once for raiding and opening a prosecution...
Yes, compared to the punto it's pathetic. Though you have to remember that the engine of the Punto has far more complex to achieve that kind of mileage and thus much more expensive to manufacture and purchase... It is probably far more unreliable too.
As I myself is privileged in that I own more than one car, I use to drive an old Citroën 2CV during the summer. It has a very weak engine, and no better mileage than my more modern car, and i definitely wouln't want to be in accident with it. However, it is so reliable, being so simple mechanically that anything which could possible go wrong is quick and easy to fix. This is a niche that is perfect for the Nano, cheap to buy (which alas, the 2CV is not), and cheap to own. This leads to compromises, and a simple and weak engine is one of them...
This was a known problem with the Tyan Athlon MP boards. The problem was that the CPUs drew too much current via the 12V rails. One solution was to solder on an additional 12V connector on the motherboard, not very elegant. In my experience, this was a one off mistake by Tyan, and I still happily use their other motherboards...
It finally supports alpha transparency. The problem is, with their WGA bullshit...
Granted, WGA isn't perfect, but how is checking that a customer actually payed for his OS bullshit? They're not interested in giving out their browser, so much as forcing obselensence to sell copies of the new OS. Funny how their browser was only free long enough to scuttle the competition.
Has IE suddenly started to cost money without me noticing? For all that it's worth, IE6 sucks, but it is still free as long as you own a valid Windows license. What is your problem with that?
All in all some of MS's business practices are shady to say the least, but you can't badmouth them for actually releasing IE7 if even for a limited subset of OS-versions now, can you?
Translating Koine, the form of greek Arkimedes wrote in, don't take years, minutes rather, it's also hard to get controversial results. Provided that you have a good copy of the text, that is. The problem here isn't the actual translating but to recover the actual text... And in that some extra eyes could be useful, no?
Right is an adjective. It modifies nouns and other adjectives. Correctly is an adverb, which modifies verbs or other advebs. Since the OP clearly wanted to modify a verb, since his clause contains no nouns, he should have used the adverb rightly,
Yes and no. Blob is often (and I think this notion predates the other) used to refer to something indistinct and shapeless. As for "binary large object" it might very well be a backronym of some sort.
Yeah, a subject, never forget to write out the subject when writing Latin!
On a more serious note 'cave' is a 2ps imperative, meaning you should look out for the object of the clause, dog (canem, acc. sing.). This clause, like most Latin clauses, doesn't need even a formal subject, it is perfectly clear anyway. So very valid Latin.
I do have Asperger's. I have learned that list before through trial and error, and know it to be broadly correct. The funny thing is that I still read the list and thought: What a nice and concise list. Might be useful.
Point being that even though knew those things already, I'm always open to hints, intellectual hints, as I don't get these things any other way...
Let me remind you 'Grammiki A' and 'Grammiki B' (Linear A and B), two forms of written language in the Southern part of Greece that bears no resemblance to later Greek language. The Minoan civilisation, that no one disagrees that was Greek, was totally different than Greece as we later know it.
Linear A and B are used for writing different languages. Linear A, the older of them is in a undeciphered language which is clearly not related to Greek or any other indo-european language. Linear B has clearly been shown to be Greek by Michael Ventris et al. Therefore we can assert that at least the minoan elite spoke Greek.
The first time in modern era that someone spoke of Skopjia/Vardaska as 'Macedonia' was Tito, the communist leader of Yugoslavia. That was in the 40s. The reason that move was made was because Tito wanted Yugoslavia to have access to the Mediterranean sea sometime in the future, when the Communist Empire was to grow.
Tito had no need to make such dubious claim on greek territory as Yugoslavia was never landlocked. I won't refute the possibility that he had other motives, but access to the Mediterranian wasn't one of them.
The Z3 was Turing-complete. Even though noone knew about it at the time, that's the important thing. As for the Z1 and Z2 I know nothing, but again, this is Slashdot, what do you expect?
Is it? I myself doesn't look twice on such a beast. The ligature, I would say, is a sure sign the writer doesn't know some basic Latin, or as in your case, is a frenchman;-). Now, my field of research (linguistics) might have differing needs than other fields, but the only thing worse than the æ-ligature is people who don't know what CV stands for in the first place.
>That is just me making it to the letter "C" in the alphabet .
The sad thing is: While you listed some impressive linux shops, almost all others are MS shops. And at once, that list seem oh so short...
It's really kind of sad.
In what way does Office have code "hidden" in the OS?
If office suites didn't use code included with the OS, then they truly would be bloated. You just can't compare code size the way you did (of course you can, it's just really hard to come up with a valid conclusion that's all:-)).
Other considerations aside: Vanishingly is an adverb and vanishing an adjective. Adjectives qualifies nouns while adverbs qualify verbs or other adverbs. Quiet the difference. As for grandparent, it did have a point, the point that basic grammar makes a language construct a bit easier to parse...
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If you read up and calculate a bit, you will see that a more effective bomb will be made by firing the ball at the bullet. Strange (not so, just physics) but true...
2. Yes, ellipses are common, perhaps I should have thought of that. But as a comparative philologist by education I couldn't let that one slip :-)
3. When speaking/writing English, I would use a sentence structure such as yours, as that matches my native idiom "Skriva mamma din ett brev" very well. I suppose you don't know Swedish, and therefore can't see how I use word order instead of prepositions to mark case. The case is always there at some level...
4. I was aware of what you were saying. The problem is that you can't use German as an analogue. As English doesn't have a dative, you can't use that as a term of comparison. You could say that "German marks the indirect object with the dative case, whereas English might use preposition."
Therefore the claim that anything is dative in English is incorrect, with the possible exception of the form whom, which is a remnant of the Old English dative case. You seem to confuse grammatical form with function, On the other hand, this is no easy subject, things are often not what they seem!
1. To know some German is always useful, that's true.
2. German is not the "root language" of English. Their most recent common ancestor seems to be West-germanic, but let us not delve into that.
3. Not all arguments to the verb write is in the dative case. If that were really so, there would be no need to overspecify with case-markers and prepositions. The truth is that the verb takes arguments from a variety of cases. Since the English surface form of a verb most often do not specify grammatical case you have to do it some other way. That other way is most often by use of prepositions.
However in some cases, there's in no doubt of the arguments grammatical case. If that is so you can safely leave out prepositions and such.
4. English doesn't work the same as German, never has, and propably never will. Oh, there are some glaring similarities, nothing more, nothing less. Now start reading the fourth item again!
The people prosecuted are prosecuted by swedish laws in a swedish court. Oh, they are swedish citizens as well... You can't prosecute crimes not commited in Sweden in swedish courts. That is mostly a good thing.
The upside of this system is that you get no appearent benefit from bribing the judge. The downside is that you only have to bribe the prosecutor once for raiding and opening a prosecution...
Young whippersnapper... In my days we only had opcodes. And we liked it!
Yes, compared to the punto it's pathetic. Though you have to remember that the engine of the Punto has far more complex to achieve that kind of mileage and thus much more expensive to manufacture and purchase... It is probably far more unreliable too.
As I myself is privileged in that I own more than one car, I use to drive an old Citroën 2CV during the summer. It has a very weak engine, and no better mileage than my more modern car, and i definitely wouln't want to be in accident with it. However, it is so reliable, being so simple mechanically that anything which could possible go wrong is quick and easy to fix. This is a niche that is perfect for the Nano, cheap to buy (which alas, the 2CV is not), and cheap to own. This leads to compromises, and a simple and weak engine is one of them...
This was a known problem with the Tyan Athlon MP boards. The problem was that the CPUs drew too much current via the 12V rails. One solution was to solder on an additional 12V connector on the motherboard, not very elegant. In my experience, this was a one off mistake by Tyan, and I still happily use their other motherboards...
Erm, no. It is nor speed nor acceleration. G is the gravitational constant. On the other hand, g is an acceleration.
how's it going to breath?
Well carps seems to have no problem breathing...
Isn't this supposed to be: "In Soviet Russia the estonians occupied YOU"'?
Now, it is a bit unfair to rebut the parent poster by saying that a feature is in an unreleased development trunk.
Granted, WGA isn't perfect, but how is checking that a customer actually payed for his OS bullshit?
They're not interested in giving out their browser, so much as forcing obselensence to sell copies of the new OS. Funny how their browser was only free long enough to scuttle the competition.
Has IE suddenly started to cost money without me noticing? For all that it's worth, IE6 sucks, but it is still free as long as you own a valid Windows license. What is your problem with that?
All in all some of MS's business practices are shady to say the least, but you can't badmouth them for actually releasing IE7 if even for a limited subset of OS-versions now, can you?
Translating Koine, the form of greek Arkimedes wrote in, don't take years, minutes rather, it's also hard to get controversial results. Provided that you have a good copy of the text, that is. The problem here isn't the actual translating but to recover the actual text... And in that some extra eyes could be useful, no?
Right is an adjective. It modifies nouns and other adjectives. Correctly is an adverb, which modifies verbs or other advebs. Since the OP clearly wanted to modify a verb, since his clause contains no nouns, he should have used the adverb rightly,
Yes and no. Blob is often (and I think this notion predates the other) used to refer to something indistinct and shapeless. As for "binary large object" it might very well be a backronym of some sort.
On a more serious note 'cave' is a 2ps imperative, meaning you should look out for the object of the clause, dog (canem, acc. sing.). This clause, like most Latin clauses, doesn't need even a formal subject, it is perfectly clear anyway. So very valid Latin.
Point being that even though knew those things already, I'm always open to hints, intellectual hints, as I don't get these things any other way...
Linear A and B are used for writing different languages. Linear A, the older of them is in a undeciphered language which is clearly not related to Greek or any other indo-european language. Linear B has clearly been shown to be Greek by Michael Ventris et al. Therefore we can assert that at least the minoan elite spoke Greek.
The first time in modern era that someone spoke of Skopjia/Vardaska as 'Macedonia' was Tito, the communist leader of Yugoslavia. That was in the 40s. The reason that move was made was because Tito wanted Yugoslavia to have access to the Mediterranean sea sometime in the future, when the Communist Empire was to grow.
Tito had no need to make such dubious claim on greek territory as Yugoslavia was never landlocked. I won't refute the possibility that he had other motives, but access to the Mediterranian wasn't one of them.
The Z3 was Turing-complete. Even though noone knew about it at the time, that's the important thing. As for the Z1 and Z2 I know nothing, but again, this is Slashdot, what do you expect?
Nor is it spelled that way. Me ducks...
Is it? I myself doesn't look twice on such a beast. The ligature, I would say, is a sure sign the writer doesn't know some basic Latin, or as in your case, is a frenchman ;-). Now, my field of research (linguistics) might have differing needs than other fields, but the only thing worse than the æ-ligature is people who don't know what CV stands for in the first place.
The sad thing is: While you listed some impressive linux shops, almost all others are MS shops. And at once, that list seem oh so short... It's really kind of sad.
In what way does Office have code "hidden" in the OS?
:-)).
If office suites didn't use code included with the OS, then they truly would be bloated. You just can't compare code size the way you did (of course you can, it's just really hard to come up with a valid conclusion that's all
Other considerations aside: Vanishingly is an adverb and vanishing an adjective. Adjectives qualifies nouns while adverbs qualify verbs or other adverbs. Quiet the difference. As for grandparent, it did have a point, the point that basic grammar makes a language construct a bit easier to parse...