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English is weird
Ignominious:
No, I suggesting cocks from Cocks are tilted by other cocks from Cocks.
The placement of the verb in the sentence structure is important to whether an appended s is appropriate though.
Cornelius:
Is it, now? It's my understanding that in the present tense, as, I believe, you used, only the 3rd person singular differs from the infinitive form, regardless of position in the phrase. I'm afraid I'll have to agree with Tova.
Is it cold in here?:
Nothing is better than eternal happiness, and a ham sandwich is better than nothing.
One suburban US police department has "Annual Mass Killing Training", which I can see three possible meanings for.
jwhouk:
I didn't know this, but it makes sense - and it does make that "Annual Mass Killing Training" thing sound weird:
(The argument would be that it would be more appropriate to say "Mass-Killing Annual Training" than anything else, but...)
Case:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 08 Mar 2018, 12:42 ---I didn't know this, but it makes sense - and it does make that "Annual Mass Killing Training" thing sound weird:
(The argument would be that it would be more appropriate to say "Mass-Killing Annual Training" than anything else, but...)
--- End quote ---
Hmmmh - "jährliches massentötungs-training" 'merely' sounds very, very weird, but "massentötung jährliches training" sounds like you forgot a semicolon, or suffered a stroke.
Germans would probably solve the problem in the usual time-honoured fashion - creating a compound-noun. Our police's term for active shooter situations is Amoklage (Amok-situation), and the respective drills for police forces are called Amoklageübung(en) (Amok-situation-training).
German schools train 'Notfallübungen' (Emergency-drills) for other emergencies that involve elaborate evacuation planning, like fire-drills, but apparently, most deliberately don't do school-shooting-drills involving students - there are pre-recorded announcements with situational advice (lock doors, get under tables, mute phones etc.) that can be triggered by teachers, but only the staff know the tone, or the message. There's also no special term for such an activity.
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