> Thank you, our ballet dancers, for your inspired performance! Thanks everyone for coming here to spend your time with us! It is truly important! And right now we'll ask all of you to please come to the inner court.
Is this also natural, or should I translate it as "we ask you" or "we're asking you" or just drop the "asking" part to avoid a calque from Russian?
> What is the origin of art? Why does man need it? It's an important questions to ask in such a city as Saint Petersburg and in such a location as the Mikhailovsky theater… (I'm not sure about "a" - do I have to use it?)
Hi could anyone tell me what is the purpose of the suffix 'ish' at the end of the adjectives 'girlish' and 'boyish? I mean you could use the suffix 'ly' but what is the need of the ish? I know that it indicates that the person being described is not entirely behaving like a 'girl' or 'boy' but ca...
@Færd It has a good answer. Interesting that 1) -itr- is unknown, but 2) -it- is a well known sort of infix continuant, where the -i- is sometimes elided. Does that agree with your experience @Cerberus?
folks! So, I was training for a test, but I just can't figure out two questions. In them, I have to identify one excerpt with a grammar mistake. I have the test final results, so I know which sentences are wrong, but I don't know why. Could you please help me? I'm taking this test on June 8 :/
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Is "to paint a convex picture" an actual expression in English? There is a similar expression in Russian "нарисовать выпуклую картину", which means to communicate all of the important details.
@RegDwigнt Nice. I've played that before, of course. Not on a 6-hole, 1-key Bach-era flute, mind you. I disagree with this performer's phrasing in a few places—I prefer to breathe after a downbeat, not before—but those are quibbles. The interpretation hangs together nicely. Also notice how "live" the room is. If you play that piece on that flute in an anechoic modern hall it would sound very anemic.
The real filler is only needed between a consonant stem and -t-, as in pet-i-t-.
The large majority of consonant stems, however, don't add a filler, but instead do something funny with the -t-, or attach it immediately (only if the stem ends on an occlusive).
@Færd By the way, most of the words I mentioned above are not Latin but English.
Basically all those that are English words aren't Latin words.
So what I learned was that an infix in Latin may undergo a funny change, which is not altogether arbitrary. I'm probably going to forget much of the detail.
Ernout–Meillet (Paris 2001, André ed.) say calcitro is "doubtless" from a non-attested noun calcitrum 'heel strike', analogous with talitrum 'knuckle rap', probably from talus 'knuckle, ankle, heel':
That means the -tr- may be from the nominal suffix -trum, denoting (according to the Oxford La...
Ernout–Meillet (Paris 2001, André ed.) say calcitro is "doubtless" from a non-attested noun calcitrum 'heel strike', analogous with talitrum 'knuckle rap', probably from talus 'knuckle, ankle, heel':
That means the -tr- may be from the nominal suffix -trum, denoting (according to the Oxford La...
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