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Well I thought it was sort of a kind of a funny kitsch, black, absurd idea and I thought if I'm going to be self-referential and sort of postmodern. And you know if somebody's going to do that and …

That <ſ> shape of "s" is called "long s": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s The long s was derived from the old Roman cursive medial s. When the distinction between majuscule (uppercase) and minus …

Here is a list of the words borrowed from German into English (mind, there are 3 pages there). I leave it up to you to decide if it is British or American English. …

This -er is no way a particle, it is probably a very ancient Indo-European suffix of unknown meaning, not connected with the modern English agent -er suffix. …

"Leōnī et Agnō" or "Leōnī Agnōque" which is the same.

I'm afraid no, almost any sequence of words can be a correct sentence in English in a particular context, e.g. sentences like "Buffalo buffalo buffalo...". … Not to speak about different local or social varieties of English. …

Since English has no way to mark the accusative case explicitly, the only way to tell the direct object is to find an object without a preposition before it. … That is why the very idea of a distinction between the direct vs. indirect object becomes vanishingly vague when we speak about English. …

Yes, they are. The idea of perfect is the action that happened before something else. When it is present perfect, the action happened before now, when it is past perfect, the action happened before an …

The English word 'semester' comes from German Semester which comes from New Latin sēmestris (“lasting six months”), from sex (“six”) + mēnsis (“month”), and Swedish 'semester' was probably borrowed directly … Both the English meaning "half of a school year or academic year" and the Swedish meaning "a holiday/vacation, especially from work" are secondary, developed later, although American English still keeps …

The words with W reflect the Norman French pronunciation, those words were borrowed into English early, from the Norman French language. … The words with G are from Parisian French, those words were borrowed into English later. …

What happens when -ly is added is that the part of speech of the resulting word changes and the word becomes an adverb (with some exceptions like 'deadly', 'friendly', etc. which are adjectives). So h …

usually use English for reading or watching films and who talk English only at English lessons. … But the English verb… Everything about the English verb is very complicated. …

That happens for the same reason as when people curse in their own language while speaking a foreign language — some language acts are unconscious and, as a result, uncontrollable. Secret agents and s …

It is a particle, and since it precedes infinitives, it is often called infinitival particle.

The simplest way to determine whether a verb is stative is to see if you can use that verb in a Continuous (aka Progressive) tense. If you cannot, then it is a stative verb. Since in your sentence the …