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Discussion Topic  RE: Data: when 'schadenfreude' became used (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...In short there are many complexities that exist in English that cause non-natives a headac......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Data: when 'schadenfreude' became used (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
But English is, I suggest, easier than most. After all, we have no genders; our verbs barely declin......
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Discussion Topic  "Dibs" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
On the beer bpard recently someone said, "...But if we're choosing months, I get dibs on November! .......
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Discussion Topic  RE: From "Eats Shoots and Leaves" (in The Written Word) by Richard English
I agree. I usually do this and I tend, also, to use the "Oxford" comma before the final "and" in a l......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Catch phrases (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Interesting. And not a single one from ITMA! Maybe the show never reached the USA....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Data: when 'schadenfreude' became used (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...jheem or Bob, do you think that German is a harder language to learn than English is?..." ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Data: when 'schadenfreude' became used (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I nearly left my German classes when I discovered that they have, theoretically (though some spellin......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Catch phrases (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...The running joke, if joke can be applied to something so weak..." It's not a belly laugh,......
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Discussion Topic  RE: My EFL group poetry (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Quote "...Criticise all you like but until I can do work of the same standard in theirlanguage I'll ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: My EFL group poetry (in The Written Word) by Richard English
I've never been able to understand how writing prose with short paragraphs turns it into poetry....
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Discussion Topic  Catch phrases (in Potpourri) by Richard English
In the OEDILF there has been some comment about "vulgar" words in Limericks and both CJ and exarp su......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural Differences 2 (in Potpourri) by Richard English
One of the problems with this survey is that it used multiple-choice questions. Inevitably, if you p......
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Discussion Topic  RE: epicaricacy reredux (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...Richard, just think of IPA as my real ale campaign. Why would anybody want to use some ers......
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Discussion Topic  RE: epicaricacy reredux (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...IPA and SAMPA are fine but by their nature they HAVE to be explained in person, it simply ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Apostrophe question (in Potpourri) by Richard English
If the name of the entity is "The Council of Learned Journals" then the possessive (which is unlikel......
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Discussion Topic  RE: epicaricacy reredux (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...There's really no rational reason why anybody gives two hoots about how words are pronounc......
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Discussion Topic  RE: epicaricacy reredux (in Potpourri) by Richard English
As I have posted elsewhere, you can hear how an American should pronounce the word here. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Oxonian (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I did a lot of research on this when I compiled my World Travel Dictionary and could find no rules a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Punctuation (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...The strange use of capitalisation adds to the confusion..." Maybe it makes the matter cle......
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Discussion Topic  RE: epicaricacy reredux (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...However, I heard a number of people pronounce 'schadenfreude' with a long "a." In fact, un......
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