However, the voice chat has been commonly attributed as the game's weak point, due to inaccurate actions taken when commands are given, and the basic sense of conversation and directions reduced to simple verbs and nouns, particularly when in the course of solving many of the game's puzzles.
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An extreme example is found in Persian has no more than a few hundred simple verbs, a great deal of which are archaic . ( Fourteen Persian verbs are used as light verbs to form compounds; this lack of lexical verbs is shared with other Iranian languages . ) Japanese is similar, having few lexical verbs.
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In English, many stretched verbs are more common than a corresponding simple verb : for example " get rid [ of X from Y ] " compared to the verb " rid [ Y of X ] "; or " offer ( one's ) condolences [ to X ] " vs " condole [ with X ] ".
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"Zork " distinguished itself in its genre as an especially rich game, in terms of both the quality of the storytelling and the sophistication of its text parser, which was not limited to simple verb-noun commands ( " hit troll " ), but recognized some prepositions and conjunctions ( " hit the troll with the Elvish sword " ).
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One reason for the rap scene to remain so small and a little bit less popular compared to hip hop is because of the fact that the Japanese language does " not contain stress accents and sentences must end with one of a few simple verb endings . " Ito Seiko, Chikado Haruo, Tinnie Punx and Takagi Kan were rappers that emerged from Japan at this time, and they proved to be rather successful.
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This got me to thinking . . . from the languages I have had contact with, it seems that at least in the Indoeuropean language family, the most simple verbs are pretty much always irregular and the language's verb for " to be " is always horribly irregular ( to stay with Italian as an example, it seems hard to believe that " fu ", " era " and " sarebbe " are different forms of the same verb ).
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While learning lots of verb forms and discovering some regularities in its irregularities, I've noticed that most irregular verbs are very common verbs that are used very frequently, and that the most frequently used verbs ( " essere ", which seems to be the worst of the bunch, the modal verbs " potere ", " volere " and " dovere ", and simple verbs like " sapere " or " dire " ) also seem to be the most irregular.
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*The construction " am / is / are " + verb +-" ing " indicates present tense combined with progressive aspect if the verb is innately non-stative, as in " I am taking it, " or combined with innate stative aspect, as in " I am feeling better . " For some stative verbs such as " feel ", the innate stative nature can be unmarked, so the simple verb form is used ( " I feel better " ), or it can be marked ( as in " I am feeling better " ) with no difference in meaning.
