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Discussion Topic  RE: Tsunami (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
But the Hepburn system doesn't match the Japanese language -- at least, not as regards /tu/. Would y......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Have a Nice Day! (in Potpourri) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Literally (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I think the use of 'coruscating' is a simple confusion between words that sound similar and are both......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Crotchety (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
> the sense of being hooked or bent or obvious. What a strange sentence. The sense of being hook......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tsunami (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
This is someone who's been exposed to English for too long. This is not how it works in Japanese. In......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Crotchety (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The related group is from a root ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Literally (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Normally I say a word means whatever people use it to mean. This is of course fuzzy: does 'coruscati......
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Discussion Topic  RE: feedback as a countable noun (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I've never seen it used that way, but it makes sense: 'We've had two feedbacks asking about...'. An ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Feeling poorly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The problem is that words in "-ly" are usually adverbs, but a few of them are adjectives. An adjecti......
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Discussion Topic  RE: What do you think? (in Potpourri) by aput
That there is a difference between how languages divide up the world is an interesting point, and an......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Feeling poorly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
But 'feel' takes adjective complements: she feels tired, she feels irritable, she feels insulted....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Perchlorate (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Weather verbs are normally regarded as valency 0: it rains, it thunders. In English we need a surfac......
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Discussion Topic  RE: What do you think? (in Potpourri) by aput
Oh-oh. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Feeling poorly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
This is still in use: I am feeling poorly. It has rather an old-fashioned feel for me, and I'd be mo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Perchlorate (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
When I first learned those words in chemistry class, valence and valency were synonyms for me and I ......
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Poll  RE: Pronunciation of "schadenfreude" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
What you're hearing in Brel or Piaf is, I believe, the uvular roll. The uvula actually rolls, the wa......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Comic Germanicisms (in The Written Word) by aput
By far the simplest way if you want an é is to spot that there is already one above you, in the word......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "false friends" (in Potpourri) by aput
I wouldn't say ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Perchlorate (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I forget what the ......
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Poll  RE: Pronunciation of "schadenfreude" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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