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Excuses to be fat

Discussion in 'Space Junk' started by darkone, Feb 11, 2009.

Excuses to be fat

Discussion in 'Space Junk' started by darkone, Feb 11, 2009.

  1. ijffdrie

    ijffdrie Lord of Spam

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    english
     
  2. ItzaHexGor

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    Specifying est, in cases like that, is used for added emphasis, just like se. You could just say vocat puellas, meaning 'he called the girls', but you could also say vocat puellas se, meaning 'he, himself, called the girls'.

    Nope, it's sum. est is third person, for stuff like 'he', 'she', etc, and sum is first person, for stuff like 'I'.

    Jeeeeeeez...
     
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    yeah, drie, everyone knows that.
     
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    ijffdrie Lord of Spam

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    no, he said he was talking about his ego, not his me
    his ego is third person

    so it is ego est optimus
     
  5. ItzaHexGor

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    That was just a coverup, what with thinking he'd been proven wrong.

    And, 'ego', in English, isn't ego in Latin. ego, in Latin, simply means 'I' or 'myself'.

    Also, that's still not what he would have needed to say, even if ego was 'ego'. ego est optimus just means 'the ego is the best' or 'an ego is the best'. For it to be his ego, he'd need to say 'meus ego est optimus', meaning 'my ego is the best'.
     
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    ijffdrie Lord of Spam

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    i only had 3 years of it, and havent done latin in 2 years
     
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    What, english is my worst subject.
     
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    English as a course isn't the same as English as a language, and they should not be called the same thing. English, as a course, should simply be called 'Literary Studies', because that's all it is. On top of that, if it were called Literary Studies, the Board of Studies would hopefully realise how useless it is and would make it so that it's no longer compulsory. If English is going to remain compulsory, then we should be taught about the language itself, much in the same way that, I presume, people who are learning it would be taught, with proper sentence structures, clauses and tenses, etc, as that would actually be useful.

    Coincidentally, that's what you learn when doing Latin.

    End rant.
     
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    I guess your right I don't think of it that way, so im no good at *Literary Studies* of the english language.

    I have no idea why my government called it english i might just be because they used it as a term as learning about writing english.

    If this doesn't make any sense i just woke up *yawns*
     
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    mornin'