posted by [identity profile] metahacker.livejournal.com at 12:07pm on 2008-04-17
I do know both Latin and Greek, and while 'ducere' is more obviously Latin to me than 'duco', it's not as bad as 'grapho' would be for graphein. The reasoning in your next post makes sense to my brain too.

BTW, I know a lot of people who make 'interductions'. Though the way they pronounce it it's more like "inn'rduction"... similarly to how Bush slurs words.
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 03:00pm on 2008-04-17
So the '-ere' works for you as a quick "hey, Latin verb here, time to code-switch" flag for you?
 
posted by [identity profile] metahacker.livejournal.com at 03:11pm on 2008-04-17
It does but not reliably. (Especially since -are and -ire are also valid infinitives, and there are plenty of English words that use those endings. Or Italian.) It'd have to be in italics or something to be a good flag.

-ein is more distinctive, phonologically, but since I use Greek so much less (approximately, not at all since about 1993) it takes more to get there anyway.

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