Thursday, 29 May 2008

Singular and plural

Thursday, 29 May 2008 07:22
pne: A picture of a plush toy, halfway between a duck and a platypus, with a green body and a yellow bill and feet. (Default)

Amy just now: "In my drawer I have some socks, and in my cupboard I have a T-shirt and a pullover and a trousers [pause] some trousers and some panties and a underwear!".

Points to her for handling the plural "trousers" correctly! Especially since German treats all those items of clothing as singulars.

(Though when she said "underwear" she meant "vest".)

pne: A picture of a plush toy, halfway between a duck and a platypus, with a green body and a yellow bill and feet. (Default)

Two days without reading friends page = skip=480. Urk.

No time to read tonight, either, so the skip will only go up.

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pne: A picture of a plush toy, halfway between a duck and a platypus, with a green body and a yellow bill and feet. (Default)
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