I have myself asked for "drei croissant, s'il vous plait por favor"
Andrij. I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT
Have you ever fallen over while clipping in to your peddles?
Any day now the illiterati will be protesting that peddle is an acceptable alternative; and 5 years later the OED will so list it.
Bonus point for:Quote from: ElyDave on 12 July, 2019, 09:45:20 pmI have myself asked for "drei croissant, s'il vous plait por favor"
Kim, you are very bad!
Quote from: T42 on 19 July, 2019, 01:29:35 pmAny day now the illiterati will be protesting that peddle is an acceptable alternative; and 5 years later the OED will so list it.Chambers already does.(probably)
Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.
Quote from: Andrij on 14 July, 2019, 10:47:38 pmBonus point for:Quote from: ElyDave on 12 July, 2019, 09:45:20 pmI have myself asked for "drei croissant, s'il vous plait por favor" Last time I tried to speak French, it came out in a mixture of BSL and German...(Disclaimer: I'm monumentally shit at French, and my brane only has room for about 1.5 languages.)
The town functions as a microcosm of what African Americans have had to deal with in America, says Dr Barbara Ellen Smith, a professor emerita who has spent much of her career focused on inequality in Appalachia.
The plural is "emeriti" according to Merriam-Webster.https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emeritus
QuoteThe town functions as a microcosm of what African Americans have had to deal with in America, says Dr Barbara Ellen Smith, a professor emerita who has spent much of her career focused on inequality in Appalachia.I don't think I've come across this feminine version before. As we don't inflect adjectives in English, it's kind of odd to do so even if the term is borrowed from Latin. In fact, I'm wondering if we even use this form in UK? (Ely Dave and others please not, this is another not-cringe!)
Athro Almaeneg Emerita Aberystwyth Emerita Professor of German
et avec John, excellent lecteur de road-book, on s'en est sortis sans erreur
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 26 July, 2019, 08:11:11 amThe plural is "emeriti" according to Merriam-Webster.https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emeritus When did it become a noun?This is an outrage.
Hang about, it'll be a verb next week.
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 26 July, 2019, 08:11:11 amThe plural is "emeriti" according to Merriam-Webster.https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emeritus When did it become a noun?
Since Tacitus, Suetonius and Lacanus used it as a noun, I'd say it was about 2000 years ago.
Quote from: T42 on 26 July, 2019, 09:35:56 amHang about, it'll be a verb next week.Single or double S in the past participle?