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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Adam Funk Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,sci.lang Subject: Re: Somewheres Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2024 09:33:11 +0100 Organization: $CABAL Lines: 20 Message-ID: <77uiqkxj95.ln2@news.ducksburg.com> References: X-Trace: individual.net 2J4vDZVYnYDnzqhQOCDKAgkb2QJfH8facxqLZZG5Tt0DcsaKrY X-Orig-Path: news.ducksburg.com!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:1UIR7vfm9cFlexg+nh2CoCgFhg4= sha1:+2QbpwUVz1DOVw8E1qIpaTbuv9k= sha256:ykM+g3Jv1INyP8T+gfyA1CO01XJlyXaAcJ450EQMW8M= User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.4-6 (Linux) Bytes: 1789 On 2024-09-02, Bertel Lund Hansen wrote: > Adam Funk wrote: > >> The -ing suffix in Modern English is a fusion of two Old English >> suffixes, one similar to German -ung & the other to German -end. I'm >> not sure of the extent to which that encouraged the development of the >> current -in'/-ing situation. > > One might add that the -ung is a suffix that substantivates a verb, > while the -end makes the verbform present particip. There are parallels > in Danish where we have -(n)ing and -ende. I'm not surprised. I think (but am open to correction) that English is the only Germanic language that has merged them. -- We take the music far more seriously than we take the lyrics, which are just throwaway lines. ---Malcolm Young