[B-Greek] Classroom metalanguage

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 25 10:52:32 EST 2010


Yes, "Die Welt ist Alles was der Fall ist."  Wittgenstein, _Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus_
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----- Original Message ----
From: Stephen Carlson <stemmatic at gmail.com>
To: Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
Cc: B-Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thu, February 25, 2010 8:44:32 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Classroom metalanguage

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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