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

[Carrol Cox]

On 10/17/2011 8:04 PM, Andy wrote:
> 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..."

I don't remember much about Czech; I do remember that the neuter noun 
endings had completely flattened out, but that often Czech writers would 
write _as if_ the endings were still informational. It made some very 
odd sentences, or so they seemed  to me.

Carrol