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| ``hopefully not offensive''
by Wkbj79 on 2006-06-16 07:53:20 |
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| | In the object "congugation (mnemonic)", I make reference to students learning foreign languages in which they must conjugate verbs. I know that this procedure is not referred to as conjugation in all foreign languages. To play it safe, I qualified that statement using "Indo-European". I don't want to offend somebody by not including a language that they know from being considered simply from the fact that I don't know very much about the language. For example, I know that we have someone active from Finland, and that Finnish is not an Indo-European language. Also, if someone speaks a language in which the changing of verbs is not referred to as conjugation, then this mnemonic is obviously not helpful; however, I feel that it is a helpful mnemonic for those who encounter Indo-European languages. |
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