On Monday 11 July 2011 23:43:06 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 11 July 2011 17:26:36 Sebastian Beßler wrote: > > Am Mo 11 Jul 2011 17:18:16 CEST, Peter Humphrey schrieb: > > > I doubt I shall ever accept 'reoccur', any more than I accept > > > 'transportation'. > > > > It's way OT but what is wrong with 'transportation'. > > If it is wrong, how would it be right? > > It isn't wrong, it's just silly. Americans love to add '-ation' to > everything. Just consider 'motivation', for example. It nearly always means > 'motive'. Ditto 'medication', which is nearly always 'medicine'. I could go > on all night, but this is much too far off topic already. (I didn't mean to > launch a troll - I just get wound up about poor language - sorry. And while > I'm at it, an adverb should not precede the verb of the sentence. This is > not German. And in English we do not put a comma between the verb and the > predicate. Anyone who wants to discuss things like this seriously is welcome > to contact me off-list.) > > > I'm not a native speaker so I might be blind to see the error. > > I can see that, but i'm impressed by your grasp of your second language, > which is incomparably superior to my grasp of your first.
well, your language is broken beyond help anyway (as everybody who was forced to learn this clusterfuck* realized in the second or third week) so why get your panties in a knot? It can hardly get worse. Maybe better. *) most accurate description of the english language I ever read: http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-07-22 -- #163933
