Quite right, Ranger Steve ! (Are you on first name terms with Yogi Bear and Booboo, by the way, or is that an old joke by now ?) As a very-glad-to-be-only-part-time-teacher-of-German, also in English we don't have a case system which draws a distinction between saying "I came into the room" (Accusative Case) and "I am sitting in the room" (Dative Case) and other wunderbare things. One big drawback, in English we don't have really long and easily pronouncable words like: Schnellzugzuschlagschein; Kolonialwarenladen; Gassackentfaltungsgeschwindigkeitsmessgeraet undsoweiter. I'm sure the German Mudcat contributor will add a few more. Mit freundlichen Gruessen, Jeanie