Text 8597, 101 rader
Skriven 2013-05-23 10:17:09 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
   Kommentar till text 8593 av Gerrit Kuehn (2:2411/12)
Ärende: DEERS
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Gerrit Kuehn wrote to Roy Witt:

 GK>>>>> The reason for this difference is probably that Germans prefer to
 GK>>>>> kill deers with their cars.

 RW>>>> We do an awful lot of that here as well,

 GK>>> But only at low speed.

 RW>> Are you daft?

 GK> Nope, I just drive faster than you.

Sure, but we don't have any traffic cameras following us around all day,
not even on our 'autobahns'...

 RW>>>> PS - plural of deer is deer...

 GK>>> Got an eye for the finer details, noticing English isn't my first
 GK>>> language?

 RW>> Excuses, excuses...We've heard this before. OTH, Euros brag about
 RW>> how well educated they are in the English language, but when they
 RW>> use it, they're almost always wrong.

 GK> Did I ever boast about my English capabilities?

You don't have to, it's in your nature to bring it up sooner or later.

 GK> Whatever, I certainly prefer to be correct with facts over being
 GK> correct with your language that is lacking proper plurals for so many
 GK> animals.

Which is what makes you sound like just any other stupid Euro...

 GK> On the other hand, you are wrong about the number of privately owned
 GK> weapons in Germany (which it not zero).

How many privately owned firearms do you have? I have quite a few and none
of them are registered and none of them need to be (not even my 'assault
weapons). That's what I mean when I say privately owned. Seeing the hoops
that you have to jump through before you can even apply for a permit to
buy firearms, is a huge problem for a person who has no firearm
restrictions at all.

 GK> You are also wrong about how weapons have to be stored here (at home
 GK> is just fine).

Locked up, ammo stored seperate from the firearms is not freedom.

 GK> But go on, let us all know how far the NRA has already indoctrinated
 GK> you.

I've never had a need for the NRA to teach me anything, being an avid
firearms owner long before I was made aware of the NRA. And a private
member of the law enforcement for quite a number of years.

 RW>> PS, My dictionary, The Free Dictionary by Farlex, available online,
 RW>> says
 RW>> this about it. "DEERS is not available in the general English
 RW>> dictionary
 RW>> and thesaurus.

 GK> <http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/deers>
 GK> deer
 GK> noun, plural deer ( occasionally  ) deers.

Been there, rejected that one because it is never correct.

PS - They claim that Lady Gaga used 'deers' while speaking to a group of
young people. Little do they know that she used the word 'dears' as in "my
dears" to address those youngsters..

This is so wrong that it disqualifies this dictionary as an inadequit
source for English.

 GK> Collins English Dictionary
 GK> deer, n, pl deer, deers

Collins? Don't make me laugh...

 GK> <http://dict.leo.org/>
 GK> deer  - pl.: deer   rarely: deers

Hey, you might get a reward by informing these people that they should
use: deer - pl.: deer    never: deers

Also note that when you ask for a spoken version of the word, you don't
get an audio version stating 'deer, rarely deers'... also, is there a
plural version of 'hirsh'? No...

'Die Jahresaktivitäten des Hirsches' translates to: 'The yearly activities
of the deer.' Not deers...


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