Thread: cases

Originally Posted by Dogboy182

And no, you didn't hurt me. I hang around afghans for 8 hours a day, i have tougher skin than that.

What?! Are you in Afghanistan?

Originally Posted by gRomoZeka

Originally Posted by Dogboy182

And no, you didn't hurt me. I hang around afghans for 8 hours a day, i have tougher skin than that.

What?! Are you in Afghanistan?

No I'm learning Afghan (pashtu) at the DLI in California.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashtu

Originally Posted by Dogboy182

No I'm learning Afghan (pashtu) at the DLI in California.

Oh, I see. I was contemplaining learning farsi or arabic but it seemed too complicated to me.
What's your opinion: what's harder to learn Russian or Pashtu?

Russian. Pashtu is pretty easy. it has Structure and only 2 genders, which you only use some of the time. The hardest part is just learning the Pashtu, and farsi and dari and arabic, words... plus learning how they say it diffrently in 4 (plus) diffrent dialects .

Originally Posted by mr hyde

And another example might be "The bear clawed the sh*t out of mike"

The bear (nominative) clawed the sh*t (accusative) out of mike(Genitive) since the *stuff* belongs to mike.

Hmm I have a question here this an expression of speach ...so there is not really sh-t at all. Its not really being removed from mike would it be accusative? It may sound funny but its almost an adverb sort of a discription of how mike was clawed it dosent directly say it but implies how it was done.
Also being that there is no sh-t Mike wouldnt own it, So then would mike be accusative being that he is being clawed?

I am confused lol !! Am I totally off?[/quote]
anyone?

Originally Posted by mr hyde

Originally Posted by "mr hyde":km3mat51

And another example might be "The bear clawed the sh*t out of mike"

The bear (nominative) clawed the sh*t (accusative) out of mike(Genitive) since the *stuff* belongs to mike.

Hmm I have a question here this an expression of speach ...so there is not really sh-t at all. Its not really being removed from mike would it be accusative? It may sound funny but its almost an adverb sort of a discription of how mike was clawed it dosent directly say it but implies how it was done.
Also being that there is no sh-t Mike wouldnt own it, So then would mike be accusative being that he is being clawed?

I am confused lol !! Am I totally off?[/quote:km3mat51]
anyone?

What are you on about? The bear does the clawing to the sh

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Originally Posted by mr hyde

Originally Posted by "mr hyde":ly7zmdul

And another example might be "The bear clawed the sh*t out of mike"

The bear (nominative) clawed the sh*t (accusative) out of mike(Genitive) since the *stuff* belongs to mike.

Hmm I have a question here this an expression of speach ...so there is not really sh-t at all. Its not really being removed from mike would it be accusative? It may sound funny but its almost an adverb sort of a discription of how mike was clawed it dosent directly say it but implies how it was done.
Also being that there is no sh-t Mike wouldnt own it, So then would mike be accusative being that he is being clawed?

I am confused lol !! Am I totally off?

anyone?[/quote:ly7zmdul]

What are you on about? The bear does the clawing to the sh

Whether it is figurative or not, the words still function as you would expect them to.

The cow jumped over the moon.

"Jumped" is still a verb despite the fact that the cow didn't really jump over the moon.

Green with envy.

"Green" is still an adjective, despite the fact you aren't really literally green.

You must interpret it in a literal sense...

You must interpret it in a literal sense...[/quote]


ok thank you very much