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ever read this The Awful German Language - Mark Twain?

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I had not seen that before. Superb.

I think he missed one, though. From Swiss-German:
Vierwaldstätteseedampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftsobe rkapitänstellverträter
(deputy senior captain of a Lake Lucerne steam-shipping company).

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Hmm... that was suposed to be one word, but I think the software can't handle it: the gap was not in my text.

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The great violinist was bowing;
But how is the sage
To tell, from the page:
Was it pigs or seeds that were sowing?

i've seen that one, but it was the hat of the captain....

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One of the most irritating language things ever for me (in English) is the sentence type "I'm ___, aren't I?". How can the same subject get two different verb conjugations in the same sentence?

You wouldn't say "I are ___" or "Are I ___?", or even "I aren't ___", so why would you switch from "am" to "are" only for the negative form at the end of that kind of sentence?

Fortunately, people don't do this to other similarly constructed sentences. There's no "She is ___, aren't she?" or "We are ___, isn't we?". So it looks as if the problem is just a desperate contortion to get around the lack of a contraction for "am not" for those who figure we don't have one, or, for those who figure we do, to arbitarilly avoid using it because it's "ain't".

OK, fine... don't say "ain't" for "am not". I understand. But use an alternative that makes some SENSE, people! There are plenty of other choices...
"I'm ___, am I not?"
"So I'm ___, am I?"
"I'm ___, right/eh/huh?"
"That means I'm ___, doesn't it?"

nicht perfekt, aber man versteht genau, was gemeint ist! That´s the good message. The bad message is that you will have to start learning Finnish if you give up learning German (Hungarian could be an alternative).

Dictionary.com says that the "aren't" in "aren't I" is actually a contraction of "am not" rather than a contraction of "are not" - one that just happens to look and sound just like the contraction of "are not."

Oh, that's nice. I went to all the trouble of putting italic codes in that quote where appropriate, and this BB software automatically italicizes everything in a quote block! Sheesh!

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yes, and all diminutives ask for "das", and (almost) all words wih ending -ung ask for "die", e.g., die Wohnung (the flat), die Sendung (the broadcasting), etc. That´s easy, but it´s not easy to understand why "most of all" transforms into "almost" instead of "allmost" or "pronounce" into "pronunciation", etc

Or you could use the modern urban equivalent: "innit" !

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What a fine piece of music. It reminds me of a film I once saw...

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But how is the sage
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Was it pigs or seeds that were sowing?

I thought chilli's were red hurtie eating things

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Some chiles are red,some are green,some are yellow.

I've noticed that in the last few years that in cookbooks & cooking shows that people are advised to wear gloves while chopping chiles.I can see some poor soul,eager to try a chile dish for the 1st time,seeing that & thinking "Gloves?!? Why would I want to eat something that I have to handle like like it's toxic waste???"

I've chopped tons of jalapeños,habañeros,pequins,you name it & never worn gloves.Of course if you rub your eyes after chopping without washing your hands 1st I can guarantee you'll remember to wash your hands before touching any sensitive part of your body.

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Again, I had thought about the cultural/linguistic difference between the meanings of chilli (i've seen it spelled with both one L or 2, I use two) and the latin-language meaning of chili, or chile, but didn't think it would be an issue. As usual, I was wrong.

You can walk into amlost any of the restrants around here and order a bowl of "chilli". You will NOT recieve a bowl of hot peppers. You will instead get a bowl of ground-beef (typically) stew with beans, onions, maybe cheese, and really whatever else you want to throw in. It's like a sloppy joe, only not on break, with more veggies, and not so tangy.

My point in my OP was that, to me (using that definition for chilli), saying "cilli soup" is like saying "cheeseburger sandwich".

Edit: oh, interesting side-note. As someone else mentioned, the dictionary confirms all three spellings (chile,chili, and chilli) as correct, but none of the definitions describe the dish i'm talking about. I think that's interesting because everywhere I've ever been (which is only in the US) that doesn't have "chilli soup" offered at most of the restrants, and they all call it chilli/chili

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What you're desribing Fazor is "chili con carne",which itself is a misnomer if it has beans in it.Technically it's a stew,the most basic version having just chiles & meat.

We take our chili very seriously here in the southwest,with high-dollar competitions & heated (pun intended) debates about ingredients.

The National Fiery Foods Show is held every year in Albuquerque.They tried moving it to San Francisco one year because the promoters felt that New Mexico was too much of a backwater & it almost bankrupted them,SF's not known for it's Mexican food.

And don't EVER insult a Texan's chili,they have guns.

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Yeah. But I hesitated to use "chili con carne" 'caus from my spanish-class days, that's actually a seperate dish. Plus, here in the midwest, us "yankee sissies" don't always even use "chiles" in our chilli. So I guess that'd make it a total misnomer, as it's just stew with ground beef instead of beefstrips.

(yes, I was determined to use all three spellings in the same post.)

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Notice that the first clause is declarative, but the second is interrogative (and negative).

Some languages have special interrogative conjugations. In Welsh, every verb has a separate interrogative conjugation.

Originally, it was pronounced. Then it became silent, and then some purists noticed no one was pronouncing it, and decided that it must be pronounced again.

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