On Tuesday 12 July 2011 04:27:18 Volker Armin Hemmann did opine thusly: > On Monday 11 July 2011 23:43:06 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > 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. > > well, your language is broken beyond help anyway (as everybody who > was forced to learn this clusterfuck* realized in the second or > third week) so why get your panties in a knot? It can hardly get > worse. Maybe better.
Funny thing about English (and Perl, and Unix): The thing that made it a real clusterfuck is the only thing that made it successful. Now that I think about it, that holds true for Intel too. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
