http://www.linglish.net Where English meets Linguistics Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:19:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.linglish.net/images/logo.png http://www.linglish.net 144 166 Where English meets Linguistics http://www.linglish.net/2008/11/15/babylon-is-fallen/ http://www.linglish.net/2008/11/15/babylon-is-fallen/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:17:45 +0000 Thomas Tsoi http://www.linglish.net/?p=125 ♪♩♫ Joy to the world  The Lord is come… ♫♩♪ Wait, wait. The Lord is come? Isn’t there something wrong? First, we know that come cannot be in the passive voice here, as come is an intransitive verb, it does not have an object, which basically means it cannot have a passive form. On the other hand, if it [...]]]> http://www.linglish.net/2008/11/15/babylon-is-fallen/feed/ 4