The questions-not-worth-their-own-question-thread III

[Brighteye]

Why call it the 'simple past' when it's called the perfect tense in English too? I had written the perfect tense, but I was writing the imperfect when I took a drink.

 

[Dachs]

Why call it the 'simple past' when it's called the perfect tense in English too? I had written the perfect tense, but I was writing the imperfect when I took a drink.

Apparently his teacher believes it is simpler to use a helping verb + generally consistent modification of the original verb than it is to use the usually more irregular imperfect...?

 

[Brighteye]

It's not teaching the perfect first that I'm questioning, it's inventing a whole new name for it when one already exists that's the same in both English and the language being taught.

 

[Taras Bulba]

It's not teaching the perfect first that I'm questioning, it's inventing a whole new name for it when one already exists that's the same in both English and the language being taught.

well... as long as I know, that's all that matters

 

[Globex]

How do you correctly pronounce Vijayanagar?

 

[Red Door]

How do you correctly pronounce Vijayanagar?

With 5 shots of vodka and a 6 pack.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

Vee-jai-ah-nah-gahr.

(throws up vodka/beer)

 

[Taras Bulba]

is Lyon (as in Lyon, France and Mary Lyon) pronounced Lion or Leon? (or something else?)

 

[philippe]

Lion, on a french way, li-on

 

[lndm]

Leon with a silent n (in a french way) as in Lee-orhh(n) (and almost pronouncing the n)

 

[CCRunner]

What are points on the driving test? I just took a three hour session (nearly perfectly I might add) with an instructor guy and he kept talking about how certain things are this many points off on the test

Example: "It's a good thing you remembered to signal. If you forget it's four points off"

WTH? I thought the test was just do it pretty much perfect or you fail. Are the points percentages? How many points do you need to pass?

 

[Cutlass]

Driving exams are a matter of state law, so would vary state to state.

 

[Annex]

Yeah, I finished my driving test in about 15 minutes. I backed into a garbage can while parallel parking, but I still passed! I dont know how many "points" off that is.

 

[Globex]

Is it physically possible for two people to be half-brothers and fraternal twins at the same time?

 

[Grisu]

Does a person who lives in the US with a greencard and loses his job lose his premit of residence as well?

 

[philippe]

Is it physically possible for two people to be half-brothers and fraternal twins at the same time?

yes, but the circumstances on how the children were made have to be a tad exceptionnal.
First, the women must have has two eggs ripe
First guy fertilises one egg
second guy fertilises one egg in a very short time afterwards.

 

[Brighteye]

Is it physically possible for two people to be half-brothers and fraternal twins at the same time?

Yes, although no artificial fertilisation clinic would use different sets of sperm to fertilise the numerous eggs they implant.

 

[Rossiya]

How do you pronounce "Words are pronounced exactly the way they are spelt"?

 

[GinandTonic]

Yeah, I finished my driving test in about 15 minutes. I backed into a garbage can while parallel parking, but I still passed! I dont know how many "points" off that is.

Could this be in any way connected with the awful level of fatalities on US roads? A far tougher test in the UK and far lower levels of fatalities, including per mile driven. The Fins seem to have a completely insane test.

How do you pronounce "Words are pronounced exactly the way they are spelt"?

foe-net-ic-ally?

 

[Annex]

Could this be in any way connected with the awful level of fatalities on US roads? A far tougher test in the UK and far lower levels of fatalities, including per mile driven. The Fins seem to have a completely insane test.

Probably. But Im proud to say that I havent been in an accident or gotten a ticket, etc.