Re: [Waaay OT] Re: V2, not SVO

Andreas Johansson wrote:

>Quoting Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>:
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>>Hi!
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>>Joe <joe@...> writes:
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>>>>>>  The television works not.
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>>>>>What a charming anachronism! :)
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>>Indeed! :-)
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>>>>We can do better than that:
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>>>>   The television worketh not.
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>>:-))
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>>>>I'm sure that's how they'd say it in IB.
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>>>I suspect the IB-English for 'television' is 'farsee'.  It just seems
>>>right.
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>>Hey, I wanted to say that! :-)
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>>Or maybe 'farseer'?  That would be the direct equiv. to German
>>'Fernseher'.
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>It ought be 'farseeing' for the technology and 'farseer' for the actual TV set.
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Farsight, perhaps?

'Farsight was invented in 1926', 'The Farseer works not', and 'I'm
seeing far'(watching TV).