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This is the Conversation Forum for English Strong and Weak Verbs - a Very Brief Overview old english language >> Subject: English strong and weak verbs Posted Jun 16, 2003 by B'Elana [©] ACE- Minister of Abbr.- Happy New Year, friends   Posting 1 This is a very nice example for the fact that every spoken language underlies a continouus change. In German it is similar and I think that most of the words from other languages that are "germanized" nowadays belong to the weak verbs or nouns. That's why it is so difficult to keep up with a foreign language if you haven't got the possibility of speaking it regularly. In Germany the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs were so afraid that anybody could get bored of all the American words we have in our language now, that they created a completely new spelling system four years ago in order to make the German words more interesting for a big part of the population. So now I feel like an illiterate because all the spelling I knew no longer exists- or at least there is the possibility that it doesn't. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: English strong and weak verbs Posted Jun 16, 2003 by anhaga This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2 It seems to me that someone recently posted something on a thread around here about that spelling change. The post involved alot of smileys like this one: thanks for your comments. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: English strong and weak verbs Posted Jun 17, 2003 by B'Elana [©] ACE- Minister of Abbr.- Happy New Year, friends This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 3 I haven't read that posting yet but I can imagine the sort of in it. I don't really mind having strong and weak verbs in a language ( although I did as a scholar ), you can learn them and their number is limited. I'm positive that pupils all over the world will despair of irregular verbs for quite some time to come.To be honest, it really makes me shiver to imagine that perhaps one day you will have "goed" to the lake etc... Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: English strong and weak verbs Posted Jun 17, 2003 by anhaga This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 4 what can I say but "I agree"? Conversation list Most of the content on h2g2 is created by h2g2's Researchers, who are members of the public. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not those of the BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of any external sites referenced. In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please click on the relevant button to alert our Moderation Team. Conversation list

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