Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 23:56:17 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/bpatch/pkg COMMENT Message-ID: <199603232256.XAA26069@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960323115242.1609E-100000@mramirez.sy.yale.edu> from "Marc Ramirez" at Mar 23, 96 02:11:02 pm
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As Marc Ramirez wrote: > Off the top of my head: > > Nouns > > English German > nom-sng the heart der Knopf > nom-plu the hearts die Knopfen die Knöpfe > acc-sng the heart den Knopf > acc-plu the hearts die Knopfen die Knöpfe > dat-sng the heart dem Knopf > dat-plu the hearts den Knopfen den Knöpfen > gen-sng the heart's des Knopfes > gen-plu the hearts' der Knopfen der Knöpfe Ya'know, we're proud of our umlauts. ;-) > Once I was in a bar in Germany and I got into an argument with some > real-live Germans about the gender of Apfelmuss (it's neuter, btw. :). It's neutral? Nope, it's actually maskulinum. :) (Both are valid.) > Verbs > > English has four forms for weak verbs (walk, walks, walked, walking) while ... The worst English has in this field is that its irregular verbs are being used in about 50 % of all verbs (my rough estimation). German is only slightly better, it's also proud of a long list of irregular verbs. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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