Activity for Jordan
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| Edit | Post #279825 |
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— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279045 |
English also has phrases like "the more, the merrier" where all the verbs and nouns are dropped and only adjectives are left, maybe acting like nouns at that point. In your example @PLTR PSTH "the better" seems to be used as an adjective, even though "the" indicates that "better" is a noun. Probably ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279827 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: Why is my Danglish pronunciation much better than Danish? In the Pinyin romanization of Mandarin Chinese, the 't' denotes a voiceless aspirated coronal stop and the 'd' denotes a voiceless unaspirated coronal stop. But, since I'm a native English speaker, I just use my standard voiceless aspirated coronal stop for 't' and my standard voiced unaspirated coro... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279825 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: How did “-able” semantically shift to mean “requiring”? Polite language got turned into legal language maybe? The first example that comes up when I google the word "payable" is "interest is payable on the money owing." And from Dictionary.com I get "a loan payable in 30 days." In both cases I can interpret "payable" in its literal sense: I am able to... (more) |
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