ext_41705 ([identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] highlyeccentric 2009-03-20 11:58 am (UTC)

I found it dead handy whenever it cropped up. But then, I learnt German first, and in Middle or Old English or wherever I was coming across it, I could use it as an indicator of tense. It does make sense, really.

No, it really really doesn't, because it's NOT an indicator of tense in English of any form. No idea what it IS - sometimes the ge-form of the word is completely different in meaning to the regular, sometimes it might be an intensifier but mostly my teachers seemed to think it was a decorative flourish.

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