Re: CHAT: Worse Greek 102 (was: Bad Latin 101)

> Date:         Mon, 5 Feb 2001 17:52:51 -0500
> From: Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>
> >> Date:         Mon, 5 Feb 2001 15:21:28 -0500
> >> From: Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
> >>
> >> On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Patrick Dunn wrote:
>
> >> To be pedantic, "of" preceeds the dative/accusative, so "... of dato."
> >> And don't forget "...to the conclusione..." :)
> >
> >Argh, you beat me... but here, "to" must gubernare the accusativum,
> >since "ad" does so Latine.
>
> But dativum in English!
I freely admitto to a totali lack of knowledge about what casis the
English pronomina gubernent, since it all just looks as the obliquo to
me. So I juste assumpsi those that Latina would have usos.

> >"New" is a proprum Germanicum word.
>
> Bugger.
Sodomizote, surely?

This _is_fun, but my bedtime looms.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)