"I'm x-ing, aren't I?" or "I'm x-ing, don't I?"
The first. "I am x-ing, aren't I?" Both "am" and "are" are forms of "to be".
The second version would be "I do X, don't I?", where the first "do" is kind of redundant in English.
Nice acronym, Mom!
Buffy ,'Showtime'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Sep 16, 2008 10:31:32 am PDT #8962 of 10003
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Trudy Booth - Sep 16, 2008 10:36:38 am PDT #8963 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
My real name gets me WMD Cessna Palin. This rocks.
My board name is Plop Hero Palin
Shir - Sep 16, 2008 10:36:49 am PDT #8964 of 10003
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I can't believe I couldn't remember that rule. It's one of the basic things we learn here, in the second year of studying English in elementary schools (5th grade) - in Hebrew, there's only past, present and future. There's no progressive tense, or perfect tense or all of the "have had" things.
megan walker - Sep 16, 2008 10:41:33 am PDT #8965 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Skein Chug Palin
And with my board name I got Knife Pile Palin.
Jesse - Sep 16, 2008 10:41:52 am PDT #8966 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's funny, because I was never really taught English grammar, so I'll be damned if I know what form is what, officially...
Emily - Sep 16, 2008 11:07:02 am PDT #8967 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Has anyone else taken any Japanese? I'm finding the grammar really interesting -- you seem to use the same word for "I eat" and "you eat" and "you are going to eat" and "I am going to eat"; and the same words for "What are you going to eat" and "What would you like to eat", which seems like it'd make learning it very simple -- but then it turns out it makes up for simple verbs by using complicated nouns.
Shir - Sep 16, 2008 11:12:26 am PDT #8968 of 10003
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
"I eat" and "you eat" is the same verb in Hebrew as well (though the "you" changes according to the gender, but it's still the same to the different "you"s).
Ginger - Sep 16, 2008 11:15:08 am PDT #8969 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
then it turns out it makes up for simple verbs by using complicated nouns.
Then there's the challenge of using different words for counting, depending on the type and shape of the thing you're counting.
Tom Scola - Sep 16, 2008 11:17:48 am PDT #8970 of 10003
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Woo! Trader Joe's opens in my neighborhood next week!
Gadget_Girl - Sep 16, 2008 11:20:52 am PDT #8971 of 10003
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
My real name gets me Rifle Panzer Palin. Guess I'd be going after the NRA vote?