14 Nov 2022, 3:38 am
count to infinity by one at a time, pffff........ you don't have that much time,
infinity is very very far -- it would take how many centuries and how many platoons of trained monkeys??
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Just joined Mastodon. 
Given up on Twitter.
14 Nov 2022, 9:10 pm
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Given up on Twitter.Mastodon sounds like a less bad version of Twitter.
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Given up on Twitter.Mastodon sounds like a less bad version of Twitter.
Finally managed to get online with it, but it was incredibly slow initially. Server overloaded with lots of folks jumping ship from Twitter. It just needs more interesting people to join e.g. various scientists. NASA is on Mastodon though.
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16 Nov 2022, 9:20 pm
The infinitive of 'go' in English is "to go". In Spanish it's "var".
The most famous case of getting away with splitting an infinitive in English is the intro to the original Star Trek show.
"To go boldly where no man has gone before". As opposed to "to boldy go where no man has gone before".
In Spanish it would be "var boldly" (whatever the Spanish word for "boldly" is). Var is "to go" in one single word, so it cant be split. And the adjectives and adverbs come after the noun/verb they describe in Spanish, rather than before the modified word as in English. So you would have no choice but to say "var boldly", and it would not split the infinitive.
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"var" is not Spanish for to go.
To go would be generlly "ir." There are other words, but no var.
I get the point about the split infinitive. I've read that even English grammarians are moving away from that rule and some of the others based on Latin.
Guess I wasnt paying attention that day in eighth grade Spanish class.
The rest of the conjugated versions of "go" are variants of 'va'. But the infinitive is 'ir'. I stand corrected.
But you still couldnt split it even if you wanted to.
Also being a poet or songwriter must be a LOT easier in the Romance languages than in English. Every word in Spanish, and Italian, ends in either the masculine 'O' sound, or in the feminine 'a' sound. So every word in the language rhymes with fifty percent of all the other words in the language. No need for thesauruses, nor rhyming dictionaries.
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