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Hi Forbes Thank you for your long reply. I do appreciate it. I would just like to say that I my opinion is based on the knowledge I have of the Germanic and Romance languages and it is of course very subjective. I fully understand that not everyone agrees with me and what I consider easy may be...

Alienvoord, I appreciate you're constructive criticism. Allow me to rebute: 1) Comprehensible, yes. But many expressions are comprehensible even without being gramatically sound. The nuances I try to reveal in this post are to help you write better gramatically, not to sound or to write...

Forbes wrote: I think you misunderstand what I am trying to get at it. If you are teaching someone Thai and you say "Thai nouns have no plural" you may give the impression that Thai has no means of expressing number, which is not the case. I agree that many...

Hi, This is an expression that has a number of meanings that are rather general in nature, and dependent on the context. eg to annoy someone by rebuking repeatedly as you suggest for a woman to do the above to a man, thus figuratively emasculating him, reducing his masculinity, perhaps...

Taka, Clive, I've been watching this thread with interest for a while. After thinking about it, I don't think there will ultimately be a solution for the original question, especially in view of the word exactly . In my opinion, the choice of whether to include or omit "how" in the...