CHAT Re: I'm new!

* yl112@cornell.edu <yl112@...> [001022 04:57]:
> On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, taliesin the storyteller wrote:
>
> > (If you've been memorizing the strong (aka. irregular) verbs
> > and your teacher claims there's no system to 'em, don't
> > believe him/her, copy the list and sort the words by their
> > vowels and you'll see what I mean. Amazing patterns.)
>
> Actually, when we were learning the strong verbs we were
> *given* a vowel-sorted list and some small amount of historical
> linguistic explanation. =^) I didn't find them too difficult,
> mainly because I could correlate strong verbs in German with
> those in English.
Ah, my compliments to the teacher then. My class got 'em sorted on
first letter and the order "memorize these" (the Norwegian term btw
is "å pugge", the harshness of the vowels says quite a bit, eh?)


t.