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Q&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 "...

posted 3y ago by Jordan‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Jordan‭

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Q&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,...

posted 3y ago by Jordan‭

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