Activity for Jordan
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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) |
— | over 3 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) |
— | over 3 years ago |