Where did my Horror go?

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Argitoth:
Dang... one little comment about language and this thread has completely gone off subject.

Yes, it's all your fault, you miscreant.

Your punishment is to use Microsoft Word for 8 hours a day, for 30 days, with the grammar checker enabled. If you remain sane (assuming you are to begin with), which is highly unlikely, you can come back to civilized chat.

[Argitoth]

Aryyn, I've been feebleminded for as long as I can remember.

[Pocus]

It reminds me of an Online dictionary on the web, which had many descriptions of concatenated words, like for example rejewination, the act of seeing his rabbin.

(nothing about religion here, it was just the example on top of my mind).

[General Tacticus]

Originally posted by E. Albright:
A few points:

• The grammar you describe is correct. The terms are not. You're actually refering to two different tenses: emphatic past ("to do") and present perfect ("to have"). Et les deux sont comparable au pass� compos�...

Which is why I didn't even try to say it in English. I learned half of these rules in French, half of them in English, and don't remember half the technical terms in any case...

• C'est pas grave. Vous �crivez tr�s bien l'anglais, et vous avez bien expliqu� les principes, m�me si vous ne savez pas la vocabulaire technique. La plupart des Am�ricains ne la savent pas non plus. (D�sol� pour vous avoir compar� aux Am�ricains...)
• J'ai pens� toujours qu'on n'utilise jamais des majuscules pour commenc� les noms des langues en fran�ais. Est-ce que je me suis tromp� ?

Exact. C'est une mauvaise habitude que j'ai prise, comme d'�crire adresse avec 2 d

[E. Albright]

Originally posted by Arryn:

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Originally posted by E. Albright:
intercomprehensibility

This must be an example of that "language evolution" you alluded to.

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Oh, if only it were true.

Merriam-Webster Online definition for "inter-"

Look at definition 8. Eleventh line down.

[Tho' yeah, I was layin' it on a little thick. This is what happens when one absentmindedly changes one's locution halfway through. The inclusion of mutual was excessive, needless, unnecessary, redundent, gratuitous, and superfluous.]

[ February 10, 2004, 17:13: Message edited by: E. Albright ]

[Arryn]

Originally posted by E. Albright:

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Originally posted by Arryn:

quote:

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Originally posted by E. Albright:
intercomprehensibility

This must be an example of that "language evolution" you alluded to.

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Oh, if only it were true.
Merriam-Webster Online definition for "inter-"

Look at definition 8. Eleventh line down.

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Ack! Ick! Eek! Egads!

Sigh. What's the world coming to? (Please don't answer that, btw.)

[Tho' yeah, I was layin' it on a little thick. This is what happens when one absentmindedly changes one's locution halfway through. The inclusion of mutual was excessive, needless, unnecessary, redundant, gratuitous, and superfluous.]

I don't know about the others here, but I'm enjoying it. BTW, you left out "surplus", "extraneous", "nonessential", "dispensable", "exorbitant", "extravagant", "untempered", and "overboard". And combined that's less than half the synonyms ...

[General Tacticus]

Originally posted by Arryn:

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Originally posted by Pocus:
I would have written 'where did my horror went', is it right ?? (genuinely asking the question, without irony, english is not my native language)

Correct would be "Where has my horror gone?", or "My horror went where?"

'Gone' is an adjective. 'Went' is a verb. You do not end a sentence with a verb in English, though it is the common way to do things in many non-English Languages.

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Gone is a past participle, not an adjective. As for your second sentence, it is not grammatically correct... I guess English is your native language