If memory serves (and I can’t guarantee it), German, like English, has all three kinds of verbs; it was in studying German that I first learned about strong and weak verbs. If it ever came up when I was taking French, I don’t remember it, but then it doesn’t come up in English classes all that often.
Strictly speaking — more strictly than necessary, I admit, but I was interested to learn it — those aren’t irregular verbs. There are actually three classes of verbs. Weak verbs like arrive regularly form the past tense by adding -(e)d at the end: arrive, arrived. Strong verbs, like sing (or arrive as you like to imagine it), regularly form the past tense by changing the vowel: sing, sang, sung. But both weak and strong verbs operate predictably, and in that sense are regular. Irregular verbs, strictly speaking, are those where you couldn’t even guess what the past tense was going to be, like bring (past tense not bringed, not brang, but brought).
I’m the kind of person who thinks that’s fun to know. If you’re not, you don’t need to bother about it.
Does anyone else daydream about Biden throwing Trump and his Supreme Court majority into Gitmo,not on the grounds that they had, in effect (though illegitimately), declared his right to do so, but more on the grounds that, in so declaring, they had in effect volunteered to have the President do whatever he chooses with them? Something also might be done in imagination about reviewing all controversial past decisions in which Justices endorsed or vetted by the Federalist Society cast deciding votes, since the anti-Constitutional agenda of that organization has never been exactly subtle.
If the performances are “live” in the sense of “happening right here, right now; not recordings,” how can they be analog? A sincere question — I won’t be surprised if “analog” has meanings I’m unaware of.
I was kind of hoping Breezy and Hazy and Tank Tucker were all being retconned away as something Rip had dreamed while kept being unconscious. Of course that would still leave the whole “call of the wild” topos to be eliminated from continuity and my consciousness …
I can’t help it, Jason’s pictures of Aggie tied to a tree incongruously remind me of Torquato Tasso’s 1573 verse play Aminta, in which we learn that the gorgeous heroine, Silvia (an immortal nymph, presumably over 18), has been bound naked to a tree by a troll who intends to rape her. Luckily the lovestruck shepherd Aminta (a name which I believe does not mean ginger-haired) is able to rescue her in time.
If memory serves (and I can’t guarantee it), German, like English, has all three kinds of verbs; it was in studying German that I first learned about strong and weak verbs. If it ever came up when I was taking French, I don’t remember it, but then it doesn’t come up in English classes all that often.