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gaijinalways · Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 2279

I think the only relation for ax to teaching is when you get the ax at work!

Europe sounds good until you take your next medcation (medical vacation).

Actually John, there are some historical disputes as to who took those whacks.

Sashadroogie · Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 7:51 am Post subject:

No actually you are wrong. 'Ax' is related to teaching in that it is always worth pointing out that this American spelling flouts a very basic spelling convention in English - i.e. only 'grammar words' are spelt with a single vowel followed by a consonant, e.g. at, in, on. 'Content words' do not do this. The only exception to this historically is 'ox', apart from the ill-advised aforementioned 'ax'.

SahanRiddhi · Joined: 18 Sep 2010 Posts: 267

Local health department or community clinic for small stuff. Nearest university-affiliated hospital for big stuff, as they provide a lot of "charity care." In practice, any hospital should treat you in an emergency case, but the extent of the treatment can vary. If you can't pay the bill when you're discharged, it's possible you'll be sued, but at least you'll be alive. If you have no assets, suing you won't do them much good, as any judgment they win will be uncollectable.

SahanRiddhi · Joined: 18 Sep 2010 Posts: 267

P.S. For dental, God help you.

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

Friends of mine in the US do medical tourism to places like Thailand and Peru.

johnslat · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 12:51 pm Post subject:

I've got the VA (Veterans Administration,) thank goodness. I've had two cancer operations in the last two years: prostate and melanoma. Since they were both "service-connected" (Agent Orange in Vietnam) the total cost to me was $0.
Thank God for "socialized medicine."

Regards,
John

Dear Sasha,

By "content words" (as opposed to "grammar words") do you mean only nouns - or do pronouns count as "content?"

What about "shortened forms" of nouns?: ad, el,

or "id"

or the pronoun: it?

Regards,
John

Sashadroogie · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 2:19 pm Post subject:

Pronoun 'it' is usually a 'grammar word'. 'Id' isn't English (Latin for 'it') and is a modern scientific word to boot. Similarly, check out 'em' a specialised printing term. These are recent inventions and weren't around when the spelling system was evolving.

Sashadroogie · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 2:23 pm Post subject:

Aw! Did you re-edit your post Johnslat? Are have I had a bottle more than I realised.

In answer to your question, pronouns are slippery fish: they are sometimes content words, or 'lexical' words if you like, and they are sometimes grammatical words.

Sashadroogie · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 2:29 pm Post subject:

More usually pronouns are grammar words, i.e. they refer to some other noun, - pronoun referents. "Who does Sasha think he is? I can't stand him when he is plastered..." Here the pronouns are grammatically linking the rest of the sentence to 'Sasha'. So 'grammar word'.

"Who are you?" This is a lexical word, as 'you' refers to something in the real world and is extra-linguistic, extra-sentential, hic! Hence a lexical word...

Axe me another question!Eh?

Sashadroogie · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 3:11 pm Post subject:

The eh's and the aw's were deliberate....hic!

johnslat · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 3:29 pm Post subject:

Dear Sasha,

I was aware of the Latin meaning of "id" (seven years of Latin,) but I agree that it (pun intended) is a modern coinage.

But how about the non-referential "it??" It's been around for a while, no?

Regards,
John

Sashadroogie · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 4:24 pm Post subject:

It has, but 'tis still a pronoun and not a noun. Spelling rules still not contravened... except by the criminal modern American spelling, 'ax'...

johnslat · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 5:23 pm Post subject:

Dear Sasha,

But since it's non-referential, doesn't that contradict what you wrote earlier:

"More usually pronouns are grammar words, i.e. they refer to some other noun, - pronoun referents."

It's puzzling.

Very Happy

Regards,
John

Sashadroogie · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 6:23 pm Post subject:

Dear Johnslat

Where's the contradiction, sorry?

Sasha hic!

Sashadroogie · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 6:27 pm Post subject:

None of it really concerns the poor decision-making or whatever was behind the strange idea to lop off the final letter e from axe.

Whose idea was that anyway? Can we blame Noah...?