Re: deepfriedmars.com

From: Xenia (tyusha_at_freemail.ru)
Date: 11/21/04 

Date: 21 Nov 2004 02:10:24 -0800

"nightjar" <nightjar@<insert_my_surname_here>.uk.com> wrote in message news:<419e3a02$0$10355$afc38c87@news.easynet.co.uk>...
> "Deep Frayed Morgues" <deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote in
> message news:3ehnp01lh9v9tnb9okib2arsot7f45jb42@4ax.com...
> ....
> > Well, Lonely Planet calls it 'Church of Spilled Blood', and I would
> > have thought grammatically it should be 'spilt' anyway, shouldn't it?
>
> Russian is a language that I know virtually nothing of, so I have no idea
> whether they would have an equivalent adjective or whether they would have
> used a verb in the name instead. The lack of articles suggests that the
> language is not particularly grammatically advanced. The name is given as
> 'spilled' on all the bits I bought from the shop in the church.
>
> Colin Bignell

The lack of articles suggests nothing at all. It's better to shut up
than to demonstrate your ignorance to all the world.

There's some basic information for you. Russian has six (not to
mention Vocative, Genitive II and Prepositional II) cases, English has
only two. Russian has three genders, English has one. Verbs conjugate
according to person, number, tense, voice and mood. Verbs have two
aspects: Imperfective and Perfective. Participles exist in 4 forms:
Present Active, Past Active, Present Passive and Past Passive. There
are short participles corresponding to two Passive forms of regular
participles that like short adjectives do not decline. There are
adverbial participles that do not decline and exist in Present and
Past forms. Word order is free, moreover, by changing the word order
any word in a sentence can be emphasized. Russian shares most of these
characteristics with other Slavic languages.

If you think that Slavic languages are "not particularly grammatically
advanced", try to learn at least one of them before making any
sweeping statements concerning its grammar.

Xenia Strizh

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