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"To be" is also used to express the passive voice in English, thus: :"This book is often criticized by academics." is the passive form of the sentence: "Academics often criticize this book." Having been a contributor to this page, I think all this is very poorly analyzed and should be redone. Even my dictionary (American Heritage) does not call the meaning of "to be" as existence, a "copula." My linguistic training agrees with this notion, as well. RoseParks ---- Yeah, that kind of bugs me too. In a simple existence statement, "be" is the predicate itself, not a copula. One problem is that the concept of "copula" itself is not entirely solid. There's some good information here that should be retained, but it is somewhat unclear. I'll do a page on "copula" that we can link to make it easier to rewrite this one. --User:Lee Daniel Crocker ---- Who wrote that there's no verb "be" in Russian? That's silly. Yah shouldn't write stuff about what you don't know...first, say no falsehoods. (The philosopher's adaptation of "First, do no harm.") --User:LMS : In the Russian language, the verb ''byt' '' is the infinitive of "to be." The third person singular, ''yest' '' means "is" (and, interestingly enough, it is also the infinitive "to eat") but there is no present- but a future-tense (''budet'') and a subjunctive (''byl/a by'') copula in the Russian language. ''Yest''' (in the non-gustatory sense) is restricted in use to express existence; ''On yest' '' means "He exists," while ''On yest' krasivyi'' is nonsense (though it is how an English speaker might try to translate "He is handsome"). There ''is'' a past-tense copula in the Russian language. E.g., one can say, ''Ona byla krasiva'': "She was beautiful." :: Is == eats? Compare German ''Man ist was man isst.'' You are what you eat. Compare Frank Zappa's song "You Are What You Is". ::: "Is" == "to eat". These words are often similar in IE languages (originating in PIE stems es-, and ed-, respectively - and their similarity is also interesting). First of all, the verb ''byt' '' in Russian does have a past tense, ''byl'' (but no perfect form, by the way). Secondly, I see little interest in the fact that ''yest' '' means both "to eat" and "is" (although some interest is in their similarity - both going back to PIE, also 1st person present used to be ''yesm''', much like the Latin ''sum''). In addition, one can always say ''On yavlayetsya krasivym'', "He is beautiful", so it's incorrect to say Russian can't use an auxiliary verb in the present tense. Finally, perhaps it all should be moved to To be (verb)? --user:Uriyan

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BE or B.E. may stand for: *the academic degree Bachelor of Engineering *BE (album) is an album by Sweden band Pain of Salvation *Belgium, as that country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code *British English *Thai solar calendar is used in Thailand to count the current year. This is currently 543 years earlier than the Christian Era (A.D. or C.E.), i.e. 2005 A.D. is 2548 B.E. *the IATA code for the United Kingdom-based airline flybe *the congenital urology condition bladder exstrophy. See also: Be Lists of two-letter combinations vi:BE

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Hi Bernhard. First see Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers, if you haven't already. OpenFacts at http://openfacts.berlios.de is ''the open source knowledge database provided by BerliOS.'' [http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=Welcome] is probably the best place for your article. There it can potentially be seen by those interested in opensource software, etc. Wikipedia on the other hand is an encyclopedia, and the requirement for an article is that is is encyclopedic see Wikipedia:What's in, what's out and Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, and I have to wonder whether your article is worthy of a page in the encyclopedia. That's why I've listed it on votes for deletion - it's nothing personal or anything. The people there will read the page and comment on it, and following the deletion policy decide to keep or delete the page as appropriate, over a period of five days. The best way you can help us is by indicating anyway that you feel that your program is helpful. There may be lesser ways you can mention it, for example by placing it as an external link in the cryptography article that may be more acceptable. By your placing of it in the encyclopedia there is a possible conflict of interest, and the best way to resolve that is to run it through vfd. Hope that helps. Happy editing. User:Duncharris|User talk:duncharris 11:11, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC) ==Welcome== Hello there! I've had a look at the CrypTool web page, and it seems to be a great bit of software, though I agree with Dunc Harris that it's more appropriate for OpenFacts, rather than Wikipedia. You seem to be interested in educating people about Cryptography — I thought I'd invite you to take part in Wikipedia:WikiProject Cryptography, I don't know if you'd be interested. (There's also a for German language articles). Maybe we could adapt some of your tutorials from CrypTool's online help, or some such? User:Matt Crypto 15:31, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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Be or be may stand for: *Be (Cyrillic): a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet *To be: A verb in the English language which fulfils the syntactic function of the copula; on its irregular paradigm, see Indo-European copula *Be Incorporated: the software company that developed the BeOS operating system *Belarusian language (ISO 639 alpha-2, be) *Berne: canton of Switzerland *beryllium (Be): chemical symbol for the chemical element with atomic number 4 in the periodic table. *Beriev, the Russian design bureau *Be number, the Bejan number *''Be (album)'': the 2005 music album release by rapper Common (rapper). See also: BE Lists of two-letter combinations vi:Be

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