[lbo-talk] VERY off-topic: for the English teachers (probably not profs)

[Andy]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 6:38 PM,  <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> I was thinking more of the fact that Latin is inflected so the tense of verbs is marked by the word ending, whereas in English it requires several words to convey the same info
>
> Latin: amo, amabo, amabam, amavi
>
> English: I love, I will love, I was loving, I have loved

Is there a Romance or Germanic language that is otherwise?  (Romanian?)

Don't get me started on Czech.  They have a one-word tense/aspect for
wistful remembrance: "We would go down to the stream..."

-- 
Andy