Trainee neophyte
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In an attempt to be more cosmopolitan, and less British, I once walked into an ironmongery and ask for a kilo of fingernails. Sneaky Greek has an entirely different word for nail and fingernail, and I didn't spot it - just pulled the first word out if the dictionary. Same shop, different occasion, I asked for a box of goats - the word for goat and the word for screw is similar, especially if you are just a trainee. Suffice to say we don't go into that shop any more: it's easier that way.Phlebas":26g5sj4j said:Trainee neophyte":26g5sj4j said:You could probably explain how the aorist tenses work
Only in Quenya.
Trainee neophyte":26g5sj4j said:Still, what can you do when you live in foreign? Talk foreign is the only option.
Surely you simply speak english slowly, and more loudly. Oh, and add '-o' to the end of most nouns. Jack Aubrey had it mastered.