[R.A.]
Thank you, Thomas, Miguel, and everyone else who's answered my query.
I'll pass on your excellent replies to my friend in Trinidad (who has no
access to the Net).
If one does not know much about a certain language, it's very difficult
to figure out the morpheme boundaries; think of such "exotic" languages
as Hungarian, Finnish, Quechua, Basque, or Eskimo, for example. Even
"easy" languages like German are treacherous for the neophyte. What are
the morphemes in _Urinsekt_? Are they {Ur}+{Insekt} or {Urin}+{Sekt}?
The meaning of this word changes drastically if one picks the wrong
morpheme boundary.
It's similar with names. "Shevernadze" (the name supplied by my friend),
"Shevardnadze," and a Georgian friend's name, "Mindadze," end in
<-adze>, thus it's logical to assume that the boundary is before the
<-a> and the suffix is <-adze>, even though it turned out to be <-dze>.
In Modern Greek surnames, too, the morpheme boundary of the suffix
*seems* to be before <-opoulos>, because the names I know (Petropoulos,
Diamantopoulos, Papadimitrokopoulos) all end in <-opoulos>.
You're right, Ruud, if you mean the famous politician who was just
driven from power. However, my friend wrote the name "Shevernadze,"
which either is a misspelling of the politician's name or another
Georgian name. In either case, it makes no difference, as both names
end in <-nadze>.
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Post by Peter T. DanielsAccuracy has never been a major concern of OP.
And now comes my favorite sport, figuratively shoving a pointy stick up
Petey's arse. I can't kick him in the balls, as little Petey was
snipped years ago, which seriously affected his personality, changed his
singing voice into the high-pitched castrato range, and turned him into
the bitter *Snippy Little Bitch* [(TM) and © Reinhold Aman] we all love
to hate.
Petey dear, you're the proverbial glutton for punishment. Thanks to
your serious personality disorder, you just ache to be abused; and as
I'm a most obliging fellow, I'll gladly still your hunger for more
masochistic treatment.
Why, just yesterday, when I taught English to Mexican immigrants, I was
thinking of you, Petey. One of the mothers had brought along her
10-year-old boy, Jesús, a very cute-looking mixture of Aztec Indian and
Hispanic. When he bent over to pick up a pencil, he displayed a
charmingly tight little ass. My first thought was, naturally, "My God!
If Petey were here and saw this cute arselet, his blood pressure would
shoot up to 180/140 and he'd cream his silken pink panties!" Honestly,
whenever I see a cute little boy, I think of you, Petey, the aged &
lonely chicken hawk.
Mais revenons à nous moutons, as the Walloons say.
So, "accuracy has never been a major concern" of mine.
I challenge you to document your horseshit. Prove it, old poof; don't
just talk shit and then skip away like a gay virgin. Unlike you, Petey,
I'm a *man* and can take constructive criticism. Don't you ever get
embarrassed by the shite you post, by the false accusations you make, by
the slanderous crap you pull?
I know that your self-esteem is exceedingly low, Petey, but with your
habitual attempts at trying to drag others down to your level of black
despair, you're sinking deeper and deeper into your self-dug slime-pit.
When you're documenting my alleged lack of accuracy, finally also tell
us which languages *you* have acquired; I mean languages you speak,
write, read, and understand at least fairly well. Don't count your
mother tongue, whose quality is barely above the level of a recent
Chinese immigrant's English.
And tell us, Petey, what brought about your snippy-little-bitch
contribution to this thread? Are you still miffed because I exposed
your ignorance regarding the subjunctive in English? Or are you still
smarting for not being admired for having been blurbed?
Speaking of which, how did your Mummy react when you raced to her bed
and gushed that you've been blurbed? Did she beam, "My son, the
blurbee! I'm soooo proud of you, my sweet little Petey darling!"? Or
did she react as usual, "Blurbed, shmurbed! Fuck off, you old creep.
Get yourself a nice woman, for Chrissake. All the neighbors are talking
about you and them little spics you're bringing home at night."?
Anyway, Petey, if you're yearning for yet another pointy stick up your
hemorrhoidal rectum, just keep posting shit about me.
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Reinhold (Rey) Aman
M A L E D I C T A
P.O. Box 14123
Santa Rosa, CA 95402, USA
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