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[Rogue]

To speak proper English, you have to use FWord?? :blink:

[A. J. Raffles]

Originally posted by Kon-Tiki@Aug 1 2005, 07:47 PM
It's 'bout this particular sentence, and not 'bout any other, no? It stays relevant. If I'd've gone on 'bout how it's only for this particular sentence and not for every single one, I'd've gone too far away from the matter at hand.

My point was that it doesn't prove anything, but never mind. We agree about the main point after all.

[Borodin]

It's seem. I seem, you seem, he/she/it seems, we seem, you seem, they seem.

[Lonely Vazdru]

It's definitely seem, and it's true that nice guys play lots of computer games !

[BeefontheBone]

Should be "seem" - but I wouldn't write that sentence in that form myself because it's ambiguous - is the speaker saying that the subject seems to be a nice guy because he plays a lot of games or in spite of it?

[A. J. Raffles]

I'd say it's more likely in spite of it. Anyway, putting it like that sounds a bit like a translation of some Latin construction.

[Zarkumo]

Hi guys,

I have another question regarding English.

Does the word "insofar" sound like an English word to you?

I once had some American guy explain to me that it was a Germanism, i.e. a frequent mistake made by Germans translating a German word into English literally. But all my German-English dictionaries have that word in them, and searching British websites with Google yields some 120,000 results (whatever that indicates).

So, is it a genuine English word or not? :blink:

[Dino]

I would say it is a genuine English word. I heard/read it being used in English language.

[Japo]

Yes, it's only that it isn't fashionable lately, sounds pretty outdated--but I don't dislike that myself. It should be followed by "as" I think. (And it was "seem". )

[BeefontheBone]

It's an English word which is often (though not as often as it used to be) used - "I'm a grammarian insofar as I have an interest in grammar, but no formal training beyond secondary school English lessons."