Re: Verbs

Raymond Brown wrote:
>          Simple     Progressive   Perfect     Perfect progressive
> Present  I go        I'm going    I've gone    I've been going
> Past    I went      I was going   I had gone   I had been going
Don't forget the future forms of each:
I will go   I will be going  I will have gone   I will have been going

> Yes, as long as it's not overdone.  Words, especially proper names,
> borrowed from Greek into Latin more often than not retained some of the
> Greek flexions.
And many Latin words in English retain Latin pluralizations,
millenium/millenia, datum/data, alumnus/alumni.  A friend of mine has
made a sort of con-dialect of English in which he uses -i (/aj/) for all
plurals, some examples he gave:

Lutheran/Lutheri [I'm not sure why he dropped the -an]
Brandy/Brandi [Brandy is the name of a friend]
Conduit/Conduiti

And also he has what we could call a plural plural, referring to groups
of things, in his words:

"If you have a Lutheran over here, and a Lutheran over there, then you
have two Lutheri, and if you have Lutheri over here, and Lutheri over
there, then you have Luther[ItIsiz]" - I guess you'd spell it -itices?

We're Lutherans, incidentally, hence his use of Lutheran for an example.

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