--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > Nope- just a good story teller, with a desire to destroy his > troubled > > > past. > > > > I have had no troubled past Jim. You never knew me in the movement > and > > you don't know me now. You simply made this up in an ineffectual > > attempt to slander me. > > > > Your ad hominem attacks only reveal your own inability to deal with > > the content of what I post in a rational, polite manor. > > > Hi, I have no idea what an ad hominem
>From a "purely" linguistic point of view, "ad" is a Latin preposition corresponding in this context English "against", I guess. The form "hominem" is (the "weird") accusative singular from "homo". The preposition "ad" "needs" the accusative case... Never thought about that, but that seems to be the case with English prepositions, too. But the accusative (English: objective) has a separate form in modern English only in the case of some pronouns, for instance "At *whom* are you laughing?"
