jayles
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@WW Business English student: What means "fellow subsidiary"...
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What I meant was to do with the basis of what is okay and go...
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The herd is always right....
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"It was the Latin lovers ....." like Romeo and Juliet? ...
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Let me just add that full-blown "Anglish" is a non-starter f...
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@WW "Words that are useful stay, those that aren't, or that ...
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And these days are we not all underlings to the spell-checke...
on: Pled versus pleaded
It all boils down to which borrowings are useful and which a...
on: “Anglish”
We need to be more withy in our thinking, to have more withi...
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@WW Hungarian,Turkish, Estonian all have little similarity o...
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@WW Yes it's mainstream English for students. L1 influence v...
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@AnWulf+Warsaw Will Wow it's just great to see you guys kic...
on: “Anglish”
Oops I meant this list: wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ List_of_Germanic_and_Latinat...
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@AnWulf I thought 'fer' (ferro/ferre) was related to 'bear' ...
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@Ængelfolc in the gelt-world 'short-term' is wont to mean le...
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BTW inside the software, same-meaning words can be useful. ...
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@Ængelfolc: "1) "while that's all right between you and me i...
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@AnWulf "For aft-1066 latinates:...." I take on board the br...
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@Ængelfolc Good. I was indeed a Kostbuchhalter for several y...
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Which brings us to the following: 1) There are words like "...
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@AnWulf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambton_Worm Choru...
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@Ængelfolc: Collocations (or "set wordstrings") are notewort...
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@ Anwulf thanks for your help...
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@Gallitrot yes betell is stil in the wordbook but unlike Ger...
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@Anwulf "payroll is good and short but one could note 'wagel...
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deadly deathly mortal lethal fatal - is this "enrichment" or...
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folytatodik: it's all cultural you see - de gustibus non est...
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@Ængelfolc Whilst teaching in Central Europe, I sometimes po...
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@WW oh dear! I did not wish to nettle you. Many of the point...
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@WW When I teach academic IELTS and the two thousand must-ha...
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support -> also underpin, underbear...
on: Adverbs better avoided?
We might be actually better off actually getting rid of art...
on: Actress instead of Actor
Should that be "said the cast-member to the ecclesiastic" ??...
on: “If I had studied, I would have a good grade.”
"If I had studied, I would have gotten a good grade." (but I...
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"uppityness " : to me "uppity" suggests someone is unbiddab...
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@Warsaw Will: dinosaurs like me lay eggs Ruthfully my care...
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@warsaw will: many "English" teachers in Korea (and elsewher...
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@Warsaw Will : Not suggesting you are wrong; just we need so...
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@Warsaw Will Just teach your student to always write the mon...
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As a ground rule we mostly wish to be understood clearly so ...
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@Jo Yes I think you are taking a true and fair view of the s...
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@Warsaw Will As I said before, it's not the words themselves...
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"The Latin and French basis of many of our words makes it co...
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For instance: I have heard an American say "Did you do your ...
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The difficulty with "what sounds natural" as a criterion is ...
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" Pashto is a second-class language " At the end of the day...
on: “I’ve got” vs. “I have”
"it's -11 C outside!" I wouldn't have missed my time in Eas...
on: “I’ve got” vs. “I have”
@WW you're quite right - "don't have to" vs "must not" is vi...
on: “I’ve got” vs. “I have”
Re teaching English as a "second" language: Today the need ...
on: The Best Euphemism for Shithouse?
I always thought "loo" came from "waterloo" from "water clos...
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"maisonette", in England, is a semi-detached or terraced hou...
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1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avign...
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we also have "maisonette" and "manor" in English, both from ...
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"Nous devons écrire un contrat pour la maison." = we endeav...
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"Again, in romance and germanic tongues it is often possible...
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" it's a froth to behold ..." I only found froth to mean bu...
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The point about French is that one gets past the basics the ...
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I think "sans" is in the English dictionary - used by Shakes...
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Never ceases to amaze me how close French is to English, how...
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True to form, the English stand-ins for 'violence' are mostl...
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violence > bewielding ??? as in "ahimsa" -> non-violence...
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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rede - gives other meanings t...
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Why not "deal" for contract? if bespeaking the document its...
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patient > tholemod encourage > bield peace > frith condem...
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to approach > to nigh (a doing-word) benefit > boon satis...
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"Likely in East Anglia..." .. and the rest of England??? ...
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"75% of British and Irish ancestors arrive[d] between 15,000...
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investment -> in-goings, in-cladding (a calque)...
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I am of the same mind - "English" lede are of mixed roots, v...
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there is no dole here ..... one must be "actively seeking wo...
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Where I live the state unemployment benefit is called "jobse...
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Just to nutshell my points: 1) There must be some overwhelm...
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/07/0719_050719_...
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"DNA studies are beginning to show that the English are most...
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@Ængelfolc: "APPLY, too, is highly academic, no?" I think...
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"These Latin words have truly become woven into Ænglisc owin...
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I stumbled upon this list of twin-words: https://en.wikiped...
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'I must gainsay that "...and the like" is doomed; Anglish ma...
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Why Anglish and the like are doomed to failure: 1) The peop...
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Cloze -->> gapfill...
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I was wondering if someone (or anyone) could cast some/any l...
on: He was sat
a) "The vegetables grew" (Subject+ verb) b) "We grew the...
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@goofy: I thought Anglish has at root a wish to turn back th...
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Oh dear me! sighed Teddy, so now I must learn historical lin...
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@Gallitrot: I would fain say the irony was intentional; but ...
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"All told, approximately 600 words were borrowed from Latin ...
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@Ængelfolc: I often uncloud the meaning of a latinate word t...
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At the end of the day, the word root hardly matters. What is...
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How does one teach the word "susceptible" to overseas studen...
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Ængelfolc: Yes, to my mind 'human' as an adjective (which-th...
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For those folk watching the olympics who don't know what "eq...
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The most galling thing is unclouding the meaning of words to...
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@Angelfolc: notiert! @Perfect Pedant: Yes indeed, we all fa...
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Perfect Pedant: I too was very skeptical for a long while. H...
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command (noun) : behest (I like this) command (verb) : can ...
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John 3:16 "for God so loved the world..." Οὕτω γὰρ ἠγάπησε...
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"number - rime, a "large number" is a tale." I could not tr...
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"freak" from dictionary.com: "a person or animal on exhibit...
May 12, 2013, 3:29am • 0 vote
on: Pled versus pleaded
@WW What bugs me sometimes is the "open-door" policy of Engl...