On Monday 11 July 2011 17:26:36 Sebastian Beßler wrote: > Am Mo 11 Jul 2011 17:18:16 CEST, Peter Humphrey schrieb: > > I doubt I shall ever accept 'reoccur', any more than I accept > > 'transportation'. > > It's way OT but what is wrong with 'transportation'. > If it is wrong, how would it be right?
It isn't wrong, it's just silly. Americans love to add '-ation' to everything. Just consider 'motivation', for example. It nearly always means 'motive'. Ditto 'medication', which is nearly always 'medicine'. I could go on all night, but this is much too far off topic already. (I didn't mean to launch a troll - I just get wound up about poor language - sorry. And while I'm at it, an adverb should not precede the verb of the sentence. This is not German. And in English we do not put a comma between the verb and the predicate. Anyone who wants to discuss things like this seriously is welcome to contact me off-list.) > I'm not a native speaker so I might be blind to see the error. I can see that, but i'm impressed by your grasp of your second language, which is incomparably superior to my grasp of your first. -- Rgds Peter
