Many decades ago (in junior high school) I had a pen-pal in Toulouse. She relentlessly corrected my French grammar. When I didn't respond she sent pictures.
RP on a hobby forum, may not be considered proper English by most Englishmen. I'm sat in my pants man. My English pants 🙂
False. This is the kind of prescriptive adherence to rules up with which I will not put. 🙂
It’s absolutely fine to split the infinitive, and sometimes it’s the more natural way to do it.
The whole video is good, and on topic for this thread, but the bit on split infinitives starts around the 12 minute mark. He also doesn’t just say “it’s fine” but also gives the reasons why many of these “rules” were introduced.
It’s worth a watch for everyone who thinks that the rules of the language are set in stone.
Had a colleague at the office that did return my emails with corrections and points. All in good jest but she was very sensitive about correct language. After a time it was easy to guess from her behaviour how badly written an email was that she was reading.
She never sent me pictures however 😉
She never sent me pictures however 😉
Back then it only took a week or so to correspond. I did reply. Even though I was a "Scientific Honors" track student, my best grades were in French and Latin.
Went looking for a Mosfet in TO-220 package today. Digikey has added a new search parameter . Great that we can now screen out parts that will become unstable and run away before the circuit is even powered up.
Why restrain yourself with language conventions, just take the express route to a verb.
Why restrain yourself with language conventions, just take the express route to a verb.
One of the greatest features of English ids how easy it is to verb a noun. We do it all the time: balled, wrapped, seated.
How would you have described a protect to which tariffs apply? They did a pretty good job there—it’s succinct yet communicates an idea clearly.
How would you have described a protect to which tariffs apply? They did a pretty good job there—it’s succinct yet communicates an idea clearly.
No the ones that The roman met in what is nuow the UK were Belgic (Kent), Brittonic, Gaelic and Pictic. Those are all related Celitc cultures, far realated to the La Tene/Gallic cultures we know more. The Anglish are germanic people who came from north-west Germany and are a part of the bigger Frissian culture. They invaded the UK with the Saxons from the 4th century AD on and took big parts of the UK untill they were attacked by the Danish a few centuries later.
The aboriginal british were even not celtic, the celts invaded also the UK from continental Europe, the original inhabitants are hard to trace as the UK was invaded a lot during history.
The aboriginal british were even not celtic, the celts invaded also the UK from continental Europe, the original inhabitants are hard to trace as the UK was invaded a lot during history.
England became an island about 10,000 years ago. Oddly Ireland shows no signs of inhabitation (which the spell check won't accept) for another 1000 years. The people there will have the least outside influence. The Vikings did visit, but people tend to leave Ireland, more than they go there. Even God arrived late, and stories of a whole host of little magic people are still commonly heard.
There are many reasons to believe, the least touched, are the Irish. Largely displaced from England, by the flooding of doggerland.
There are many reasons to believe, the least touched, are the Irish. Largely displaced from England, by the flooding of doggerland.
Not really, before 3500BC years ago Ireland was largely uninhabitated. Only a few herdsman tribes were wandering arround and their genetic makeup (of at least what we found) indicates a link with France, not with the UK or the Netherlands. arround 3500BC. Settlers came from the continent but again mainly from southern Europe.
But the people who live there now and largely decendents of early split off of the Bellbreaker (proto-Celtic) culture of central and west europe, with tribes comming into Ireland from Belgica (Belgium and northern france) and Amorica (Bretange) arround 2500BC and took over the island. Very little remains of what was before (just like in the UK). Vikings and other Germanic people skipped Ireland largely for a reason i don't know. Bellbreaker culture is one of the many forms of the early Indo-European culture that orignated in what is now southern Urkrain and the bordering part of Russia but spread out over big parts of Europe and Asia and is largely the prehistoric base of our European culture (next to others).
... and the there is interpunction. Never a space before a full stop ;-D
But perhaps this was a typing error.
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I believe you can set M$ Word to automagically add an extra space before a full stop.
It used to be en vogue with many publishers.
Jan
It used to be en vogue with many publishers.
Jan
Three tribes of Celts came to the islands off the coast of mainland Europe - the first being the Gaelic, then came the Britonni the last being the Belgia. The Britonni pushed the Gaels ever westward until they had no option but to go to the island they called Erin. It's no surprise to me that as I was born in the 'stolen land' which came to be known as England of what I thought of at the time of Scots on both sides that I was taught complete b/s of English propaganda. Even today most Lowland 'Scots' have no idea of which Celtic tribe they actually are, in fact being Britonni. When the Saxons invaded they became cut off from the other Britonni and came to be known as 'the men of the north'.
waxx is quite right in calling the invaders that came from 'Germany' the Anglish/Angles how that got twisted into 'English' who knows, the Anglish certainly don't. It's like the country I have lived in for 16 years now is called France, it shouldn't be it should be called Galla or Gallica. The Celts of this country were not united when Julius Caesar invaded by the time he left, 1 million had been slaughtered, another million had been enslaved which made it easy for the Franks to invade successfully as was the habit with the Romans to forbid conquered peoples from bearing arms. Most history is actually propaganda from whoever got lucky in battle. Until the white Aryan tribes invaded from the northern Steppes western Europe was Euskadi/Celtic, the Euskadi being the beaker people who built the monument known as Stonehenge, an awful Saxon word when these peoples were still living on the northern Steppes.
A long time ago now I stayed for a few days at a youth hostel in Ostende, which was run by a father and son and they were keen amateur archaeologists and were full of interesting facts about the Celts who had lived for centuries in what is now Belgium, the name deriving from that Celtic tribe. For those who want to acquire some factual knowledge not just about 'Wales' but about Celtic history of the islands and northern Europe in general - a History of Wales by John Davies is an excellent read. He obliterates a lot of b/s that Celts have believed for a long time.
My mother was a Stuart which you would think meant that she was of 'Scots' blood but that meant that she was in fact from Britanna/Britanny - a Britonni. Robert the Bruce was of Norse blood as indeed are many 'clans' Ranald of the Isles/Donald/Gunn/Monroe/Gregor and many more. Many Germans have Celtic DNA from the Celts who lived not only in what is now Germany but in the Czech republic, Austria and Switzerland.
These facts should unite us as Europeans first not as nationalities as favoured by the parasites known as politicians. All Scottish clansmen wore 'bonnets' which in fact is a French word. At one time if Frisian sailors had to take shelter in 'East Anglia' they had no problem communicating with the locals.
It's sad to say that a lot of the people who inhabit England today have a very minimal vocabulary, many with less than 50 words. Many homes have only car manuals, no actual books. Many leave school who are illiterate. When we moved to Spain in 2001 were surprised at the depth to which Spanish children learn their language. Story telling was an essential part of Celtic life, this is reflected in cultural life of the UK today.
You're mixing up history. Celts are Aryan/Indo-European just like Germanic, Baltic and Slavic people and share a common roots. Their cultures were also not that different, and their traditional religion was largely the same. They all decent from the Aryan/Indo-European Yamnaya culture from the Pontic steppe (Ukraine/Russia). What lived before in the UK was what build Stonehenge, but we don't know how they were called, we only know that they were there before and came from southern Europe (mainly Iberia (Spain & Portugal) and Anatolia (modern day Turkeye)) and dissappeared when the Aryan proto Celts came to their region. Bask/Euskadi are a remain of that pre-Aryan/Indo-European population but probally the only one that was not crushed under the Aryan invasion about 8 to 5000 years ago in Europe.