Re: English articles are not nonsense

2005-05-03 Thread RC Macaulay
L PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 11:28 AM Subject: English articles are not nonsense Standing Bear wrote: Russian grammar is different than ours in many ways, including the omission of common nonsense words that we call 'articles' like 'the' in many cases... Actu

Re: English articles are not nonsense

2005-05-03 Thread leaking pen
an english teacher is teaching his class about positive and negative words. "In english, as you know, a double negative is a positive, whereas in some languages, such as russian, a double negative is simply more negative. however, there is no known language where a double positive can be a negati

English articles are not nonsense

2005-05-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Standing Bear wrote: Russian grammar is different than ours in many ways, including the omission of common nonsense words that we call 'articles' like 'the' in many cases... Actually, English articles have a specific meaning: they indicate whether you are talking about one specific instance or ge