Fun fact: lactose intolerance is caused by a lack of the enzyme lactase, which normally breaks down lactose. In lactose intolerant people, it is attacked by bacteria, which creates gas.
There are three main declensions, which end on 1. -a, 2. -us/-um, and 3. a consonant. There are two minor declensions, and a few pseudo- or semi-declensions.
We will only bother with the three main declensions.
In English, we have about two cases. When a word performs a certain function, like subject, or object, or whatever, we use a specific case and/or a preposition.
The same applies to Latin, except that they use fewer prepositions, and they have more cases.
One more thing: vowels can be long or short. You don't really need to know that, but, when a dictionary wants to show that a certain vowel is lōng or shŏrt, it goes like this.
Q: What would you do if you were the government of a country, and people were fleeing because you destroyed large parts of cities and killed many people.
I would wonder what my agenda was, if I were a goverment doing this. But I feel you're trying to get me into another political confrontation with somebody.
Hey, I just emailed you. I haven't done the thing you asked me to; I'll do it later.
@Cerberus Did you actually want to talk about Assad? I'm afraid I'm not really an expert on happenings in that part of the world. As Robust 0 tried to say, I'm kind of isolated off here in my own little corner.
And it occurred to me that "misanthropic" isn't the right word. I want a word that means specifically man-hating, as opposed to hating all of humanity. I can't think of one right now.
I came across the following sentence in New Yorker’s (February 23) article, titled “In Defense of Liz Lemon”:
“She behaves as if Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) is her daddy. She
doesn’t trust her own judgment, she’s bad at her job, and there’s
something awfully misogynist about all this! Liz...
Actually, I remember reading it, shortly after it was posted. So either I forgot this word, or I read the question before you posted your answer. In any case, I have now learnt a new word, and I thank you.
I hope you don't now expect me to teach you a word in your native language.
It means "able to reproduce without having sex". Zoologists use it to describe animals that reproduce asexually. Theologians use it to describe the Virgin Mary.
@DavidWallace Well, yes, but without context the "sexless" connotation is contingent, not the first thing one would think of. This is probably because "parthenos" is often translated as "virgin", which has a much stronger connotation.
But your word is technical!
I can come up with a technical word that you don't know in a second!
No...I actually thought the Greek word existed in English. Like apallage and synallage.
As a rhetorical figure.
But it turned out to be a dragonfly.
Not that I don't like dragonflies.
> Film producer Saul Zaentz owns the film, stage and merchandising rights to JRR Tolkien classics such as The Hobbit. Ostensibly to protect those rights, lawyers for the company are now threatening small businesses across the UK with ruinous legal action if they don’t stop using the term ‘Hobbit’ – a word that may not even have been created by Tolkien.
> Richard O’Dwyer, the UK-based ex-administrator of the video linking website TVShack will be extradited to the US to face copyright infringement charges. Despite public outrage Home Secretary Theresa May approved the extradition order today. The 23-year-old student has never visited United States, but now faces several years in a US prison.
I am having difficulty trying to distingush between then and than.
What I find confusing is their pronunciation, and when to use them.
For example:
He walked, stopped, than/then picked up a stone.
Should it be than or then, and why?
Bah. Some new user went through the list of millenia-old SWRs and posted an answer to each. And then some other user flagged them all. And now I have to go through that list one by one.
@RegDwightѬſ道 That other user was me, sorry about that! They'd shown up as flagged posts on the left of "review" at the top and it asked if I agreed with the flag or not.
I think they were just auto-low-quality flags I saw rather than other-user flags. Have they put some new system in to flag these? They weren't part of the normal low-quality-posts on the review tab, but actually showing as flagged...
A call to action
This topic has been brought up here numerous times before, most recently by JSBangs:
I'm now of the opinion that single word requests should be either disallowed entirely or subject to much more stringent requirements.
The reasons are as follows:
We get lots of...
@DavidWallace Doesn't have anything to do with tags. The minimum answer length is 30 characters, to any question. If you barely scratch the 31, you'll get auto-flagged.
I came across the following sentence in New Yorker’s (February 23) article, titled “In Defense of Liz Lemon”:
“She behaves as if Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) is her daddy. She
doesn’t trust her own judgment, she’s bad at her job, and there’s
something awfully misogynist about all this! Liz...
I am having difficulty trying to distingush between then and than.
What I find confusing is their pronunciation, and when to use them.
For example:
He walked, stopped, than/then picked up a stone.
Should it be than or then, and why?
A call to action
This topic has been brought up here numerous times before, most recently by JSBangs:
I'm now of the opinion that single word requests should be either disallowed entirely or subject to much more stringent requirements.
The reasons are as follows:
We get lots of...
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