Tuesday, January 06, 2015
Unlikely uses for the aorist
From Wikipedia
Until recently, in Serbian and Croatian, the aorist had mostly been used in literary language and legal writing. The predominantly young users of the modern means of communication (SMS, email) have found advantages of using the rarely spoken verb forms like aorist and imperfect as they require fewer characters than compound verbs, thus bringing them back to popular use.Kids these days. What's next, a return to texting in Latin passive pluperfects?
Thursday, September 25, 2014
While while
In my latest reason to hate the English language, I just used the phrase.
I was talking to her for a while while walking around.Which I guess is correct, but made realize that the word while is ambiguous.
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Especial
I forget how this came up, but I ran across something that made me wonder about the adjective especial, which I think of as an antiquated and/or British equivalent of special and have never (to the best of my knowledge) used. It turns out there is supposed to be a difference between the two;Who knew?
