Tag: Irregular

Cratylically composed,[1] Jumpman preceded Super Mario as the player protagonist of Nintendo’s 1981 arcade classic Donkey Kong. Separated into syllables he divides to verb and noun, jump and man, and is quite literally defined by his primary ability. In subsequent adventures Shigeru ...

Back when I was learning Portuguese, I often found myself wondering something that most language learners probably wonder at some point: most verbs seem to follow some pattern, but some verbs have some really weird verb conjugations — what’s up with that? What’s more, why is it tha...