> As reported elsewhere, some of this purchase order is for hollow-point rounds, forbidden by international law for use in war, along with a frightening amount specialized for snipers. Also reported elsewhere, at the height of the Iraq War the Army was expending less than 6 million rounds a month. Therefore 1.6 billion rounds would be enough to sustain a hot war for 20+ years. In America.
@RegDwighт I would say Obama's Nobel was premature adulation. Or that the Peace Prize is basically worthless. I mean, Kissinger got one. So did Arafat.
I've seen National Guard patrolling the streets of Chicago, and it ain't a pretty sight. A round from a Humvee-mounted .50 cal. M2 machine gun would go right through any residential structure in the city. There is literally no place to hide.
> There is a well-known myth about the word "quiz", which says that in 1791 a Dublin theater owner named James Daly made a bet that he could introduce a word into the language within twenty-four hours. He then went out and hired a group of street urchins to write the word "quiz", which was a nonsense word, on walls around the city of Dublin.
> Within a day, the word was common currency and had acquired a meaning (since no one knew what it meant, everyone thought it was some sort of test) and Daly had some extra cash in his pocket. However, there is no evidence to support the story, and the term was already in use before the alleged bet in 1791
Could you tell me if there are any mistakes in this passage?My Turkish Van cat Marchioness is two years old. She is a very active and lovely cat... but has a stange habit of pushing our second cat from the window sill every time she sees her sitting there. We live on the sixth floor and even though, I always keep the windows closed her behaviour scares me. Could anyone explain why she is doing that?
So in my definition of a noun (as is this case, I'll get to verbs and adjectives at some point) you'd suggest animacy and semantics? Or semantics overall? — Viparyesterday
In pagina, you want to keep the long a. If you wrote *paginas, you would have to pronounce the a as short, because it's short in a closed syllable. So you add an apostrophe to keep the syllable open. It is only to help pronunciations.
@RegDwighт Well, many people get it wrong. We have many kinds of greengrocer's apostrophe (and lack thereof)!
@Cerberus "dem Haus sei Wände sind hoch" actually sounds funny, though grammatical. I'm not sure why. Perhaps because this construction is actually limited to living beings.
For long phrases just the sei won't suffice. You have to throw in the dem as well, to refer back to the entire phrase. So basically you use dem sei as a single token.
Now, I think one interesting thing why this construction exists in the first place of why it's quite useful is that you can always start off with nominative, and then if you change your mind midway through the sentence you can still turn it into genitive after the fact.
The funny thing, of course, is that you turn it into genitive by using dative (+ genitive).
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
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