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In the interest of ensuring that this keeps going more or less smoothly I'm afraid I must inform you that I couldn't resist a certain temptation.

o.O

Uh-oh.

I hope it's a sort of fucked up they knew in Ancient Greece.

I thought that one was quite quoteworthy xP

Besides, I know that feeling. I'm Albanian by descent, and if you've ever seen what Albanian orthography does to loanwords... Well, it ain't pretty.

I don't know. But I'm here.

Let me rephrase that: a certain kind of syntax error happens more in inflected languages. That's usually to do with succession of time and succession of mood, both of which, incidentally, can be violated in English almost as well as in German because of the latter's descent from such a language. Übr...

Actually, his speech is just plain wrong. It happens to all of us; I daresay that fucking up your grammar and/or syntax is a hallmark of trying to speak in highly inflected languages. Heck, I even do that in English.

Bottom line, the quote from Welt is the correct form and so were your assumptions.

Tally ho, then!

1) You are more or less correct. The point is that a Wirt/in is the owner of a restaurant or Gasthaus , which I suppose is best translated by inn . If you rent living space from a Wirt , then you're staying at an inn and have rented a room or something not much bigger. However, in this case you woul...

Gaelic to Classical Greek? That HAS to be the weirdest translation I've ever done. On that note: Cha tabhair mi mathanas dhut ma nach eil do eadar-theangachadh math, jmcd! P.S. Finlay: If you haven't selected/made the text yet, bonus points if the number two features prominently in it. I need an exc...

That sounds like a good procedure, though in my opinion it's a shame you're not continuing Haedus Book for the time being. It's such a pretty font, and really, you've already got so much of it – if I may be selfish here, I'd like you even more if you focused more on that, because that way I could ha...

Exactly. Basically, all you do is replace the active Hilfsverb with one in the subjunctive and you're set. :) EDIT: There are exceptions with verbs like können or müssen that use the infinitive instead of the participle. You can use the participle instead to give a sense of remote past, but it is a ...

Okay. Reported speech in the perfect and past anterior is a bit of a bitch, so I'll tell you how to do it in a formal context where people will care if you replace the Subjunctive with an Imperfect: Reported Speech in other tenses What about reporting speech where the finite verb of the original sen...

I'll have you know that I've been lurking these forums for six times your estimated survival date for me. Besides, you've gotta start somewhere, right?

That's probably a Wynn without connector.

Holy [EXPLETIVE REDACTED]. A linguistically valuable font that isn't ugly? Where have you been all my life?

Also, is that an inverted æ?

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