[B-Greek] Classroom metalanguage

Stephen Carlson stemmatic at gmail.com
Thu Feb 25 10:44:32 EST 2010


On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote:
> On Feb 25, 2010, at 8:52 AM, Nicky de Jong wrote:
>> Randy,
>>
>> In primary school German teachers use Wer-Fall, Wes-Fall, Wem-Fall und Wen-Fall instead of the Latin-based forms, which are introduced in secondary school.
>
> Now in English that amounts to: Who for, Where-fore, Why-for, What for, and When for?

Maybe I'm missing something, but doesn't "Fall" basically mean "case" here?

Stephen



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