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presupposing a poor understanding of adjective-noun agreement in the German language.
presupposing an intention to have tried to achieve such agreement  "Reine" is not a male forename in German. Would a "pure fool" decline correctly anyhow? |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
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« Reply #676 on: 11:33:14, 29-05-2008 » |
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He would surely at least decline the amorous propositions of a kooky mezzo.
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« Reply #677 on: 15:01:21, 29-05-2008 » |
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"Reine" is not a male forename in German. Neither is "Maria". |
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« Reply #678 on: 16:27:52, 29-05-2008 » |
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Neither is "Maria". But... how do you solve a problem like Maria? Perhaps Weber can tell us |
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« Reply #679 on: 16:51:44, 29-05-2008 » |
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There are OTHER pedantry threads? I thought we were the pioneers.  (and riddled with people typing "pro nounciation"). : the insertion of 'i', 'you', 'he', 'she', 'it', 'we', or 'they' into a word in order to form a new word, e.g. 'western' from 'stern' |
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« Reply #680 on: 16:52:36, 29-05-2008 » |
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"Reine" is not a male forename in German. Neither is "Maria". It's unlikely to be a man's first name but I know or know of several who have it as their middle name. Or as it's called in German: zweiter Vorname.  |
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What a day of disaster it has been! First of all, we forgot to put the bin out! And as if that were not sufficient, we then realized - three days too late - that we had forgotten to attend to the tele-phonical account. We hope we do not overmuch dampen members' spirits by this relation. We really blame it all on our simplistic nineteenth-century conceptions of the Orient.
tele-phonical account ( orig. unknown) A monologue consisting of irate monosyllabic expletives shouted over a communications device as a result of forgetting to adhere to arcane Oriental hygiene regulations. |
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"Reine" is not a male forename in German. Neither is "Maria". It's unlikely to be a man's first name but I know or know of several who have it as their middle name. Erm ... That's what I was getting at.  |
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"Reine" is not a male forename in German. Neither is "Maria". It's unlikely to be a man's first name but I know or know of several who have it as their middle name. Erm ... That's what I was getting at. But that is a forename... at least, the Germans call it one. |
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« Reply #684 on: 22:09:07, 29-05-2008 » |
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Stevenage!
Stevenage: A measure of the proportion of people called Steven in a town or village. |
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Stevenage: A measure of the proportion of people called Steven in a town or village.
2. (n.) contraction of Steven Age: period when prehistoric humans fashioned tools out of Steven. |
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« Reply #686 on: 23:38:59, 29-05-2008 » |
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Stevenage [n]
3. A corruption of "St Evenage", the patron saint of equanimity.
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Stevenage
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« Reply #688 on: 20:05:20, 01-06-2008 » |
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Turfer-surfer, you may be erroneously gaining the impression of more frustration than is actually there - it's fine, just felt like a bit of a grump!
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Cute, T.
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