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I was born in east germany, so I got a lot of bad russian. started in third grade, back in 1987. eleven years in a row … can’t speak it. always been too lazy to learn the words. it’s a shame. but … give me a word and most likely I’ll be able to decline / conjugate it, lol.

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• mh. this was meant to be a reply to buzzword’s posting …
• there was an interesting feature on the radio today. the largest encyclopedia over here, the Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, will not be available in print anymore.
  Instead, it will be available online. for free.

  so … this is the way it’s gonna be, I guess: any kind of information will be stored somewhere on (in?) the web.
  same goes for universities. there’s no handouts anymore. every academic does a “script”, they put it on their homepage, you need to download it — no handouts anymore, no copied (segments of) professional articles (of course there’s still books we need to buy).
  university fees are being paid via a student’s online account. no other way to do it.
  I remember paying fees cash at some sort of counter. they don’t do that anymore.

  sry about my english … uh … kinda scatterbrained today … hope you get my point … more coffee.

• > ignore the bed

  never! I need sth to sleep in.

  sry. -g-

• > drifting into the larger

  maybe because of “artificial” regions such as the louisville metropolitan area (”kentuckiana”)? 23 counties … that’s not exactly a small area …

• german? yay. can’t wait. ^^

  don’t americans like accents? that’s the impression I got from when I was there.
  I was an exchange student back in 95/96 in louisville, ky. I just love the southern accent. luhvull rawks. lol.

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  the internet grammar of english says that prepositions typically come before a noun

  yeah, i know.
  in german, it’s pretty strict. a preposition P followed by a noun phrase NP forms a prepositional phrase PP.
  the reason that the resulting phrase (from P + NP) is a PP and not a NP is that P governs the following NP, or P gorverns the (grammatical) case of the following NP respectively.
  Ps can follow NPs. but since PREposition suggests that it comes before the NP, those are pretty often called postpositions. (same difference, though, regarding government of the NP.)

  so, maybe try to look at them at postpositions that have lost direct contact with the NP that belongs to them, but they still can see them. something like that.

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  not grammatically correct.. a sentence should never end with a preposition

  i couldn’t find anything supporting the claim that p-stranding is grammatically incorrect (i wasn’t really looking, though.). the internet grammar of english simply states that there are prepositions and stranded prepositions.

  i’m very fond of geoffrey pullum. he put this book out, the great eskimo vocabulary hoax.
  he also wrote this article which is a great read: 50 years of stupid grammar advice.

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  Women run the Universe!

  oh, is that why the universe is so clean?

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