Showing posts with label latin and greek and english. Show all posts
Showing posts with label latin and greek and english. Show all posts

Monday, June 29, 2009

Grammar

Young Adventurer is describing to Grandpa the various phonograms for "ough"--there are six ways to pronounce that, in case you didn't know.

Grandpa Larry, not wanting to be outdone, says, "what is the genitive ablative for something-or-another, thinking to throw around his superior knowledge of Greek and thereby outwit the Youth. Venom, sitting quietly in Grandpa's lap, hears this and says, "There can't be a genitive ablative. Those are two different cases."

There are two phonograms for "ow."

Not having taken greek or latin, and not knowing phonograms by memory, I apologize for any misspellings in this post.