On Saturday 16 December 2006 18:00, Roman Naumann wrote:
> On Saturday 16 December 2006 17:51, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> > Just for your information.
> > There are languages with more cases for example the Czech language
> > with 7, and the Finnsih language even uses 15 cases.
>
Try Hungarian - A l
On Saturday 16 December 2006 17:51, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> Just for your information.
> There are languages with more cases for example the Czech language
> with 7, and the Finnsih language even uses 15 cases.
That's quite impressive. I guess it's a great advantage if you learn such
languages
Latin has the four cases Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative and
additionally the Vocative and the Ablative. I haven't seen any other
languages with six cases. As you can imagine, it's quite tiring to learn
Latin. :-\
Just for your information.
There are languages with more cases for exampl
On 16 December 2006 17:47, Roman Naumann wrote:
> Latin has the four cases Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative and
> additionally the Vocative and the Ablative. I haven't seen any other
> languages with six cases.
Russian.
> @Uwe Thiem
> Are you also German? You name sounds quite as if you
Thanks for all your explanations, but the funny thing is that I am German. :D
I just didn't know about the two different meanings of the word "decline",
what is rather embarassing due to the fact that I learned (or had to lean)
Latin. Every word starting with "de(c/k)la..." should make me remembe
On 15 December 2006 15:38, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> According to German friends of mine, it not only does, but tries to
> handle every possible case that could ever come up anywhere, anytime.
A quick case study. The adjective is "mager" (thin or skinny).
Male base form
On Friday 15 December 2006 15:05, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> It's a pun on the word decline. Mr. Twain (known mainly for his
> books) is using two meanings on the word decline simultaneously. 1.
> to refuse and 2. the alter a noun or adjective to indicate it's role
> in a sentence, only used
On Friday 15 December 2006 04:29, "Roman Naumann"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Adjusting
the cursor speed in the terminal':
> "Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective."
> I don't get the 'joke?&#
On 15 December 2006 12:29, Roman Naumann wrote:
> By the way:
> "Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective."
> I don't get the 'joke?' in your signature...
Declination of German adjectives is rather difficult for non-native speakers.
So Mark Twain found it easier not to acc
On 12/15/06, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As root:
kbdrate -s -r 30 -d 250
If you put that into /etc/conf.d/local.start it will switch your keyboard
to
the highest speed possible.
Uwe
Thanks, thanks. :-)
The Gentoo community is really great, that is fast and precise.
By the way:
"M
On 15 December 2006 10:08, Roman Naumann wrote:
> Hi, I`m using Sabayon currently. (For those of you who don`t know about it:
> It`s a full compatible Gentoo port (Thus, actually just a overlay based
> pre-installation)) Unfortunately, the cursor speed is set very slow by
> default. How can I chang
Hi, I`m using Sabayon currently. (For those of you who don`t know about it:
It`s a full compatible Gentoo port (Thus, actually just a overlay based
pre-installation)) Unfortunately, the cursor speed is set very slow by
default. How can I change it? In which config file does the option hide?
Pre-t
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