From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] ...recreating exactly the same applications on a new harddisc?
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2020 10:21:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12496905.uLZWGnKmhe@peak> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200404195956.7uqeoj5c7xr7nchg@solfire>
On Saturday, 4 April 2020 20:59:56 BST tuxic@posteo.de wrote:
> I have some problems to understand, whether I understood...
>
> In the german language the "'s are often used to express the
> opposite of what is written in words. For example:
>
> What a "nice" weather it is...!
>
> will say:
>
> For heavens sake, what the hell all this rain is coming
> from!!!???
It's the same in English, except that "weather" is an uncountable noun, so you
can't have "a weather" - it's just "weather".
I'd like to put in a word about punctuation. In English it is not permissible
to put a comma between the verb and its object*. It seems to be required in
German, but it destroys the natural flow in English. Thus, your first sentence
quoted above should not include a comma.
HTH.
* Sometimes you'll see a pair of commas there, setting off a parenthetical
expression, but by the nature of those, they don't really contribute to the
sentence, merely slipping a by-the-way phrase because it fits.
--
Regards,
Peter.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-05 9:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-04 17:34 [gentoo-user] ...recreating exactly the same applications on a new harddisc? tuxic
2020-04-04 17:59 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2020-04-04 18:03 ` tuxic
2020-04-05 17:41 ` Ian Zimmerman
2020-04-05 19:53 ` Jack
2020-04-05 19:57 ` Jack
2020-04-04 21:26 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-04-04 23:46 ` Peter Humphrey
2020-04-04 18:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2020-04-04 18:23 ` tuxic
2020-04-04 18:57 ` Mark Knecht
2020-04-04 18:33 ` Dale
2020-04-04 21:42 ` John Covici
2020-04-04 22:24 ` Dale
2020-04-04 18:25 ` Ashley Dixon
2020-04-04 19:05 ` tuxic
2020-04-04 19:29 ` Ashley Dixon
2020-04-04 19:30 ` Mark Knecht
2020-04-04 19:59 ` tuxic
2020-04-05 9:21 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2020-04-05 9:29 ` [OT] " Peter Humphrey
2020-04-04 21:56 ` Grant Taylor
2020-04-05 8:17 ` tuxic
2020-04-05 9:28 ` Ashley Dixon
2020-04-05 12:52 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-04-05 12:56 ` Ashley Dixon
2020-04-05 13:37 ` Michael
2020-04-05 14:56 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-04-05 18:08 ` Peter Humphrey
2020-04-05 19:39 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-04-06 10:17 ` Peter Humphrey
2020-04-06 21:02 ` antlists
2020-04-06 21:15 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-04-06 23:38 ` Michael
2020-04-07 15:23 ` antlists
2020-04-11 15:37 ` Marc Joliet
2020-04-08 1:02 ` William Kenworthy
2020-04-05 9:46 ` Michael
2020-04-05 10:52 ` tuxic
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