[sci.lang] Another thread gone tangential

swsh@ellis.uchicago.edu (Janet M. Swisher) (12/15/90)

In article <261@coatimundi.cs.arizona.edu> robert@cs.arizona.edu
(Robert J. Drabek) writes:
>Bernstein and Lindsley write (for my point it doesn't matter who is who
>here) :
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>> catch/catches/caught/caught/catching is a *complete* conjugation. What
>> other language is so simple? To learn a verb in English you must learn
>> just five words.
>
>JUST 5?  I have to learn 5 words to speak ONE meaning?  Yikes!

Not one meaning--five related meanings.  Don't be so obtuse, silly.
'I caught' does NOT mean the same thing as 'I am catching.'

Doesn't the Subject line of this thread have any meaning to you?
Follow-ups to sci.lang, and this time I mean it.  Sci.lang folks,
please forgive me.

1/2 :-)



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