Re: Be and Have in Arabic, English and German

In article <43781D5A.3ABA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Alan wrote:

>> "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:4377C05A.34AC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Dr. Jamshid Ibrahim wrote:

>> >> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>> >> .

>> >> > For gods' sakes, you are such an ignoramus.

>> >> > Learn something about language and languages before you post here
>> >> > again.

>> >> This an example of spamming I mean the American product of poor quality
>> >> kept in tins.

>> > You don't even know what "spam" means.

>> > Your assertion that most languages have words equivalent to "be" and
>> > "have" is a flat-out lie, and we're sick of your lies about language.

>> > Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx

>> To say that Dr J is lying is to assume that he is aware of the truth. He's
>> not. He takes what few facts he actually some grasp of and rushes headlong
>> into the fabrication of others in order to back up his wild and irrational
>> speculations. Technically, not a liar --- just a garden variety fool.

>Bush is now claiming that he wasn't lying when he based the invasion on
>the presence of WMD. The Dems aren't buying it: _someone_ had the
>correct intelligence, and it was kept from the Senate and the People.
>The SPQA, as it were.

I do not see that someone who was a source of information
to the US government had the correct intelligence. One
has to act on the information one has, and I suspect that
most people believed that Saddam had WMD; if not, why did
he not let the inspectors go anywhere they wanted?

We know NOW that this was the case, but it certainly did
not seem reasonable at the time.

How do you prove that someone does not have a gun in his
house? You do a thorough search of the whole house, and
you still might not find one that is there.

A WMD may not be as small as a gun, but Iraq is a lot larger
than a house, with lots of places to hide things.

>So if we can keep saying Bush lied, then so can we of "Jamshid."

>Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx


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