Re: Totally off topic, say hello to Miyu

Marc Adler wrote:
> necoandjeff wrote:
>
>> Couldn't resist sharing the news. Language is really going to start
>> getting fun now.
>
> Congratulations! Personally, I figure the only way atheists can really
> make a dent in the world today is through demographics, so I'm
> planning on having 10. Jeff mo ganbare!

I didn't realize I was under that kind of pressure too. Can't I just donate
more money to the American Humanist Association?

> Incidentally, I'll bet yen to yokan that the milestones thing was
> translated from Japanese. We don't normally use the past tense for
> these things in English.
>
> Am I right?

Nope. English came first. The ones that can be expressed as nouns are
(although I should probably change "Said first word" to just "First word"),
but how else would you express the ones that are only verbs?

Jeff

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