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On Sunday 11 October 2009 15:55:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Well, at least now we know that English contains at least one word that is |
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> less ambiguous than the German equivalent. |
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> I would not have thought it could be done. |
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English contains many ambiguities, but if you know the current idiom they all |
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disappear, or at least recede. The difficulty is in keeping up with the |
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idiom. Personally, I prefer to rely on what I've known for the last 60 years |
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or so and to hell with the trendies. |
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Things like "its" = "belonging to it"; "it's" = "it is". |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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