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Nils Tanner wrote:
> Why is a mushroom called mushroom? As usual, Scott H
> <sheathx013@yahoo.com> got it all completely wrong and wrote:
>
>
>>>>>There's also a verb "kommen", which means "to come".
>>>>>So, many German speakers get the brilliant idea that "become" means
>>>>>the same as "to get"
🙂
>>>>>
>>>>>With very funny results
🙂
>>>>
>>>> Heheh, it's true it's true. But thanks for reminding me of German,
>>>>I've get less than three weeks before I have to go back to that Nazi of
>>>>a professor and learn more about dative case, which I barely learned
>>>>enough of to pass the final (apparently).
>>>
>>>
>>>Oh, sorry about that.
>>>If it's any help, where I live most people probably don't even know
>>>what a dative is but they still survive
🙂
>>>But good luck with that test!
>>
>>I can imagine, since half the class are native speakers and didn't know
>>either.
😉
>
>
> Native speakers? In the US (I assume you're thereabouts, altough I
> don't really know...
🙂 )
Yup, Texas actually. Several of the other people in class grew up in
Germany and managed to get along without much working knowledge of the
German language, technically. The manage to get by the tests with A's
with little effort as well, even though I know they hadn't studied the
grammar as much as I had.
😉
--
Scott
Game Pilgrimage
http://users4.ev1.net/~sheath