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From: iltzu@sci.fi (Ilmari Karonen)
Subject: Re: Watsit#3
Date: 1999/03/19
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On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 23:52:20 GMT, Martin Atkins (zneg.ngxvaf@ovtsbbg.pbz) wrote:
: .----- On 10 Mar 1999 08:07:49 GMT, Lester5374 posted:
: |Okay,  "A fucking puppet". hahahahaha
: '---------------------

: <nitpick>fucking is a verb</nitpick>

<peeve>Bloody English teachers insisting that this bastard descendant of
of French, Old Norse and quite a bunch of other languages has a logical
and consistent grammar, when it should be perfectly obvious that it is
littered with expressions that only make sense in some obscure historical
context. I don't care if it's formally called the present participe or
whatever[1], as far as syntax is concerned it's used like an adjective,
placed like an adjective, and therefore - like the proverbial duck - it is
an adjective.</peeve> 

ObAscii: I did this beer stein for some other thread, but I might as well
post it here:

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[1] It might be revealing that here the equivalent form is called the
present participe in Finnish, Swedish, French and German lessons, but "the
-ing form" in English lessons. Apparently it's much easier to teach the
language if one doesn't even try to fit it into a classification that is
more appropriate for, say, Latin.

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/ ' 4(_,-_,-"_,/.'   `'--' ,------------------------' own. If you want me to
"`-(_,-"" `-' (,' itz      | make some for you too, you should pay for them!