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Bilingual in Europe versus USA
Dave Frightens Me writes:
No wonder people here think you're racist. No wonder a lot of people are constrained to living on welfare or dealing drugs. Bill Cosby feels the same way; is he a racist, too? -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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Dave Frightens Me writes:
Insistance doesn't demonstrate anything. I'm not insisting, I'm informing. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 11:53:00 +0200, Giovanni Drogo
wrote: On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Dave Frightens Me wrote: And what about cosa, but also coso, cosina, cosino and even cosare ? I've never heard of the last four, but cosina is fairly obvious (cioé una piccola cosa). What on earth could cosare mean? Is it a verb? All expressions quite used in familiar speech (also in offices !). And yes is a verb, maybe not recorded in dictionaries, but widely used as a catch all for some more complex expression one does not remember at the moment. I asked some friends today, and yes, coso is also widlely used apparently, although my ears never picked it up. The hardest reading for me is Max magazine, because there's so much slang in it! Can you explain to me how 'cosare' is used? -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |
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On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:23:07 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote: Dave Frightens Me writes: Insistance doesn't demonstrate anything. I'm not insisting, I'm informing. Your information is tainted, love. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |
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On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:22:21 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote: Dave Frightens Me writes: No wonder people here think you're racist. No wonder a lot of people are constrained to living on welfare or dealing drugs. They are just as often white as black. Bill Cosby feels the same way; is he a racist, too? Bill Cosby does not feel the same way as you. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |
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Bilingual in Europe versus USA
Dave Frightens Me writes:
They are just as often white as black. Where did I say anything about them being white or black? Bill Cosby does not feel the same way as you. Are you sure? -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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On 29 Aug 2006 19:22:23 +0100, des small
wrote: B writes: On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:57:04 -0700, Hatunen wrote: Old languages are generally much more complex that modern languages. Certainly, Old English is more complex than Modern English. Most languages tend to get simplified over time. Both Chinese and English illustrate this pattern, as do other Germanic languages and Romance languages. No they don't and no they don't. Chinese is arguably acquiring some morphology and English phrasal verbs are notoriously confusing to non-native speakers. Neither of these contradicts what I said. Chinese once had a considerably more complicated grammar than it has now, and English has always had those modal verbs. They're a typically Germanic feature. Chinese is simple in that it doesn't rely on case endings and declensions and such. It once had a much more complicated grammar. Inflectional morphology isn't all of grammar, and Chinese syntax isn't considered simple by Sinologists. It once had all that syntax *plus* inflections. -- Barbara Vaughan My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup |
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On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 23:04:31 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote: Dave Frightens Me writes: They are just as often white as black. Where did I say anything about them being white or black? Read upstream if you can't remember. Why not post for quality and not quantity? Bill Cosby does not feel the same way as you. Are you sure? Yes, of that I am. A rich black would not feel the same as a poor white. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |
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Dave Frightens Me writes:
Read upstream if you can't remember. I can't remember something that I never said. Show me the post. Why not post for quality and not quantity? I do. Yes, of that I am. A rich black would not feel the same as a poor white. Why do you insist on race as a factor? -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:54:21 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote: Dave Frightens Me writes: Read upstream if you can't remember. I can't remember something that I never said. Show me the post. Read upstream. It's all in this thread. Yes, of that I am. A rich black would not feel the same as a poor white. Why do you insist on race as a factor? I never did, you brought Bill Cosby into this. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |
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