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Hoa Thai

#450383 Thu, 06 Dec 07 03:57 PM

Hi Grammar Geek,

Many ESL learners - including me - often equate the word unnatural to semantically unacceptable.

Thank you for your clarification.
Hoa Thai

Hoa Thai

Joined on Mon, Oct 15 2007

Vietnam

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Best Regards - Hoa Thai

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Goodman

#450415 Thu, 06 Dec 07 06:13 PM

I may be wrong but I chance it anyway. To my half-and-half ears, if a sentence sounds"unnatural", it is "awkwardly constructed but still understood" but "unacceptable" is either structurally or grammatically incorrect.

Goodman

Joined on Mon, Nov 7 2005

Calif. USA

Senior Member (3,247)

The name says it all!

Grammar Geek

#450442 Thu, 06 Dec 07 07:46 PM

Hoa Thai wrote:
Hi Grammar Geek,

Many ESL learners - including me - often equate the word unnatural to semantically unacceptable.

Thank you for your clarification.
Hoa Thai

Perhaps we could add "socially unexpected" to that list?

Grammar Geek

Joined on Tue, Jan 10 2006

Pennsylvania, USA

Veteran Member (16,098)

Barbara, who answers in American English.

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