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@Cerberus I can't tell you my friend the point of all of advertising, but my uncle Prince Ndugu Mbebe can. Problem is, he's stuck in Africa right now and can't travel to your place because no airplane will fit all his money. So please kindly tell me your banking details to send you the money for my uncle's accomodation. Thank you.
Actually no, let me tell you something you don't know.
Back in oh I dunno, 1997 perhaps, there were some efforts to attract more high-quality educated specialists to Germany.
This resulted in a number of campaigns, notably for Indians.
Basically if you were a highly skilled Indian engineer, you'd get a greencard and help with the accomodation and getting your family over and everything.
So anyway, naturally there also was resistance.
To make it short, one CDU politician, Jürgen Rüttgers, coined the catchy slogan "Kinder statt Inder".
I.e., you want professionals, go make yourself some German professionals, who needs Indians.
So one late-night show I used to watch at that time coined a couple of further slogans.
Here perhaps I should mention, though I did so before, but you've forgotten, and so I should mention it again: Tussen is German for "chicks", "bimbos".
@RegDwigнt Metric clocks are works of art: the hour hand traverses an arc in the z-axis rising above the ordinary clock-face. With 10 metric hours per metric day, the clock face is numbered from Ⅰ to V and traversed twice. The first hour of the morning ends at Ⅰ which is at 144° clockwise from the top of the circle at 0°, which is marked Ⅴ. Hour Ⅱ is at 288°, hour Ⅲ is at 72°, and hour Ⅳ is at 216°. After that you’re back to Ⅴ and start again for the useless half of the day’s own 5 hours.
she's not the girl next door or a girl from france or the cigarette girl with the sizzle-hot pants all the words of love seeming cool and crass . . . your everyday girl in an everyday mask who'll pay for the crimes of paris?
For some reason you were driving me around Toronto, but you never followed my directions, and ended up parking your car on the grass instead of in the parking lot, and then you couldn't get the trunk open and I didn't want to leave my coat just sitting there in your open convertible.
Last night I dreamed my house was a spaceship (really!) and my mother's friend was navigating it because we had to launch some satellites into orbit. Then we landed on Mars somehow. I remember seeing Alaska and part of Russia on the globe.
We were a bit scared, because we would crash if she failed.
Like, a standard defense against a homicide charge might be the "I couldn't have done it" prong combined with the "It would have been self-defense anyway" prong
Oh.. it's literal then. It's a prong or point or one issue of the statute about 'stalking', when someone stalks another person (and that is considered domestic abuse)
We need a noun to act as the direct object of the copula (i.e. "is"). Both the infinitive ("to verb") and the gerund ("verbing") serve this purpose, and provide the same grammatical meaning in this particular context.
To my native ear, the gerund sounds smoother, but the infinitive sounds more ...
Reg is right that copulae don't have direct objects: they have subject complements. Apart from that, the answer is fine. It is true that infinitives and gerunds can serve as nouns, because they can be both verb and noun at the same time (noun externally, verb internally). — Cerberus29 secs ago
@Robusto I dunno. Think how hard it is to get programmers to agree on programming languages, and then think how hard it is to write bug-free code in a language that lacks ambiguity. Now imagine trying to write that code in English.
We need a noun to act as the direct object of the copula (i.e. "is"). Both the infinitive ("to verb") and the gerund ("verbing") serve this purpose, and provide the same grammatical meaning in this particular context.
To my native ear, the gerund sounds smoother, but the infinitive sounds more ...
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