Does Silver Slimer means thief?

I need the help of windows specialist not entertainers.

On 2014-09-13 1:36 PM, Norman wrote:
I need the help of windows specialist not entertainers.

How am I a thief exactly? What the hell are you even talking about?

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The question was does it mean.

"Silver Slimer" escreveu na mensagem ...

On 2014-09-13 1:36 PM, Norman wrote:
I need the help of windows specialist not entertainers.

How am I a thief exactly? What the hell are you even talking about?

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Don't answer, try blame.

"Justin Tyme" escreveu na mensagem
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On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 19:11:42 +0100, "Norman"
wrote:

The question was does it mean.

"Silver Slimer" escreveu na mensagem ...

On 2014-09-13 1:36 PM, Norman wrote:
I need the help of windows specialist not entertainers.

How am I a thief exactly? What the hell are you even talking about?

Norman....have ya been sniffin' glue again?
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Norman wrote:
Don't answer, try blame.

"..." escreveu na mensagem
...


escreveu na mensagem is Portugese.

Are you our very own Portugese troll ?

Hiding on the green parts of the map ?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._the_world.png

Are you that dot floating in the middle of the Atlantic ocean ?
That would explain a few things. Keep rowing. You'll get
to land some day.

Paul

I want to go to Spain.

"Paul" escreveu na mensagem ...

Norman wrote:
Don't answer, try blame.

"..." escreveu na mensagem
...


escreveu na mensagem is Portugese.

Are you our very own Portugese troll ?

Hiding on the green parts of the map ?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._the_world.png

Are you that dot floating in the middle of the Atlantic ocean ?
That would explain a few things. Keep rowing. You'll get
to land some day.

Paul

On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 13:41:24 -0400, Silver Slimer wrote:

On 2014-09-13 1:36 PM, Norman wrote:
I need the help of windows specialist not entertainers.

How am I a thief exactly? What the hell are you even talking about?

I would explain it to you, but it will cost you money. Think of it as
bribery.

To tell the truth, I also have no idea what Norman is saying.

I read the whole current thread and I'm still in the dark...

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On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 14:44:15 -0700, Gene E. Bloch wrote:

On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 13:41:24 -0400, Silver Slimer wrote:

On 2014-09-13 1:36 PM, Norman wrote:
I need the help of windows specialist not entertainers.

How am I a thief exactly? What the hell are you even talking about?

I would explain it to you, but it will cost you money. Think of it as
bribery.

To tell the truth, I also have no idea what Norman is saying.

I read the whole current thread and I'm still in the dark...

I just stumbled across his latest threads below.

I think he needs Ctrl-Alt-Del, and soon.

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

John wrote:
On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 15:45:01 -0400, Paul wrote:


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._the_world.png

Oh. I thought they gave up Portuguese in Portugal?

I figured if Norman was offended, he'd explain it to me.
This wasn't intended to be a "historically accurate
in every detail" troll thread.


Are you that dot floating in the middle of the Atlantic ocean ?
That would explain a few things. Keep rowing. You'll get
to land some day.

Isn't that blob the Isles of Dogs? The Canaries?

No, that blob is Norman. With the fake name and all.
In a row boat, with a laptop. He has to decide what
country he lives in now.

Yes, the dots are probably islands. I just figured
Wikipedia were keeping an eye on Norman, and knew
where he was.

Paul

On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 04:33:37 +0100, John wrote:

English *has* all of the genders, declensions and other syntactical
and grammatical tools of other languages,


Not true. There are *many* such things in other languages that English
doesn't have. Here are just a few that come to mind:

1. English pronouns have gender, but nouns don't.

2. English nouns have only one declension,

3. In many languages whether a word is subject or object (or something
else) defends upon morphology, the word's case. In English it usually
depends on syntax (the positions of the words): "Sam loves Charlie"
means something different from "Charlie loves Sam" in English. In
Latin, for example, a change in a word's position doesn't change
meaning.

4. English verbs have only one conjugation.

5. Some languages have tenses that English doesn't have.

6. Russian has a property of verbs called "aspect." English doesn't
have it.

7. English has two types of number (singular and plural), but some
languages have three (for example singular, dual, and plural

There are lots of other things, but it would take me a little thought
and research to come up with them.

On 2014-09-13 2:11 PM, Norman wrote:
The question was does it mean.

I think we've just solved your computer issue: the issue is that the
user needs to have his head blown off from a self-inflicted gunshot.

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John submitted this idea :
*Everyone* has a fake name. You don't think I'm really called
"man-at-the-keyboard" do you?
Wait. USAlien. Strike the foregoing.

"Old man of the keyboard"?

On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 07:04:14 -0700, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:

On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 04:33:37 +0100, John wrote:

English *has* all of the genders, declensions and other syntactical
and grammatical tools of other languages,


Not true. There are *many* such things in other languages that English
doesn't have.

you are right, I refrained from responding to John's comment but you did
a great job. just a couple of comments though:

Here are just a few that come to mind:

1. English pronouns have gender, but nouns don't.

2. English nouns have only one declension,

no: the plural of 'ox' is 'oxen' (not 'oxes'), the plural of 'sheep' is
'sheep' (not 'sheeps'), etc.

maybe these should just be considered 'remnants' of past declensions lost.

3. In many languages whether a word is subject or object (or something
else) defends upon morphology, the word's case. In English it usually
depends on syntax (the positions of the words): "Sam loves Charlie"
means something different from "Charlie loves Sam" in English. In Latin,
for example, a change in a word's position doesn't change meaning.

4. English verbs have only one conjugation.

'teach'/'taught'
'go'/'went'/'gone'
'bring'/'brought'/'brought' (German: 'bringen', 'brachte', 'gebracht')
'sink'/'sank'/'sunk'
.....


5. Some languages have tenses that English doesn't have.

and German (and some others) lacks the progressive, "I teach' vs. "I am
teaching".

6. Russian has a property of verbs called "aspect." English doesn't have
it.

by this I think you mean there isn't a syntactical change in the verb to
express 'aspect'; English expresses 'aspect' through phrases (see
'progressive' above).

7. English has two types of number (singular and plural), but some
languages have three (for example singular, dual, and plural


There are lots of other things, but it would take me a little thought
and research to come up with them.

English has almost lost the 'subjunctive voice': "if I were (vs was) a
carpenter...."

syntax-wise I think English is pretty stripped down actually. hypothesis:
you might expect this of a language used for international, interethnic
trade. I am guessing that languages that don't travel much accumulate
verbal complicity. just a hunch.

yours was great post!

F.

On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 13:43:59 -0500, felmon
wrote:

On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 07:04:14 -0700, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:

On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 04:33:37 +0100, John wrote:

English *has* all of the genders, declensions and other syntactical
and grammatical tools of other languages,


Not true. There are *many* such things in other languages that English
doesn't have.

you are right, I refrained from responding to John's comment but you did
a great job. just a couple of comments though:

Here are just a few that come to mind:

1. English pronouns have gender, but nouns don't.

2. English nouns have only one declension,

no: the plural of 'ox' is 'oxen' (not 'oxes'), the plural of 'sheep' is
'sheep' (not 'sheeps'), etc.


Those are irregular nouns, not separate full declensions. Latin has
five separate declensions, and each noun falls into one of them. Over
and above its five declensions, Latin also has irregular nouns. But
English has only a single declension.


maybe these should just be considered 'remnants' of past declensions lost.


Perhaps, but I don't think so.


3. In many languages whether a word is subject or object (or something
else) defends upon morphology, the word's case. In English it usually
depends on syntax (the positions of the words): "Sam loves Charlie"
means something different from "Charlie loves Sam" in English. In Latin,
for example, a change in a word's position doesn't change meaning.

4. English verbs have only one conjugation.

'teach'/'taught'
'go'/'went'/'gone'
'bring'/'brought'/'brought' (German: 'bringen', 'brachte', 'gebracht')
'sink'/'sank'/'sunk'


As I said above regarding nouns. those are irregularities, not full
conjugations. To take Latin as another example, it has four
conjugations, and also has irregular verbs. English has only one
conjugation.

In English, irregular verbs are usually called strong verbs.




5. Some languages have tenses that English doesn't have.

and German (and some others) lacks the progressive, "I teach' vs. "I am
teaching".


Yes.


6. Russian has a property of verbs called "aspect." English doesn't have
it.

by this I think you mean there isn't a syntactical change in the verb to
express 'aspect';


Substitute the word "morphological" for "syntactical" in that
sentence, and yes, that's what I mean.



English expresses 'aspect' through phrases (see
'progressive' above).





7. English has two types of number (singular and plural), but some
languages have three (for example singular, dual, and plural


There are lots of other things, but it would take me a little thought
and research to come up with them.

English has almost lost the 'subjunctive voice': "if I were (vs was) a
carpenter...."


Granted that it's much less commonly used than it used to be, it isn't
gone yet. As far as I'm concerned, "if I was a carpenter" is
completely wrong, and I hope I never say it (although I am prone to
making errors now and then, because I wasn't careful enough in what I
was saying).


syntax-wise I think English is pretty stripped down actually.


Again, you mean morphology, not syntax. Morphology and syntax are the
two components of grammar. "Morphology" refers to the form of a word;
"Syntax" refers to its position in the sentence. English is a language
that usually uses syntax to express meaning where most others use
morphology. Chinese is another example of a language that uses much
more syntax than morphology.

So, to give another example of the difference between morphology and
syntax, in the sentence "the boy loves the girl," the subject is "the
boy" and it is the subject because it precedes the verb; and "the
girl" is the object, because it follows the verb, That sentence means
something very different from "the girl loves the boy," because the
subject and object have reversed themselves because of their
positions, even though their forms remained the same. That's meaning
expressed through syntax

In Latin "puer puellam amat" means "boy loves the girl." The verb
"amat" comes at the end of the sentence because that's where verbs
usually are in Latin. But because Latin is morphological not
syntactical, the order of the words can be any way you want it: "puer
puellam amat," "puer amat puellam,""puellam puer amat," "puellam amat
puer," "amat puer puellam" and "amat puellam puer" all mean the same
thing--"the boy loves the girl"--because "puer is in the nominative
case and puellam in the accusative case. If you want to say "the girl
loves the boy," it has to be "puella puerum amat," again with the
words in any order you want them.

(I hope I got the Latin right. I studied Latin *many* years ago, was a
poor student, and have forgotten an enormous amount. It's certainly
possible that I got some of the details wrong. But you get the idea, I
hope.)




yours was great post!



Thanks very much.

In closing, let me add this grammatical story:

A man was standing on a subway platform in New York City, waiting for
his train for a long time. He asked another man on the platform,
"Where's the train at?"

The second man replied gruffly, "Didn't you ever go to school? Don't
you know enough to never end a sentence with a preposition?"

So the first man rephrased his question and asked it again, "Where's
the train at, asshole?"

Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
In closing, let me add this grammatical story:

A man was standing on a subway platform in New York City, waiting for
his train for a long time. He asked another man on the platform,
"Where's the train at?"

The second man replied gruffly, "Didn't you ever go to school? Don't
you know enough to never end a sentence with a preposition?"

So the first man rephrased his question and asked it again, "Where's
the train at, asshole?"

I recall that story...until a young woman from Queen's told me it was
all wrong...

She said the second man's New Yorker response was more direct 'Up yo mama'


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