Foreign Language Acquisition

Mike Sangrey mike at sojurn.lns.pa.us
Mon Jan 24 17:31:14 EST 2000



cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu said:
> At 11:24 AM -0800 1/24/00, Garland H. Shinn wrote:
>> "VICE" is an English preposition meaning "instead of." Ain't you guys
>> got no dictionaries?
>>
>> G. Shinn

> That's SO disappointing! ;-) And I always thought it was the first
> half of an ablative absolute! 

And I thought "dead languages" was genitival:  "The living vice OF dead 
languages."

Perhaps, "ever-living" would be a better translation.  Viva La Greek.

:-)
-- 
Mike Sangrey
mike at sojurn.lns.pa.us
Landisburg, Pa.
       There is no 'do' in faith, everywhere present within it is 'done'.





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