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StanoG wrote: Hi, I'm reposting the mentioned text: Survey: People Have a Feeling That Price Increase Is Much Higher Than It Really Is People Think They Are Worse Off Than They Really Are People’s ideas of how the cost of living increases influenced by economic measures from...

Hi Fred! I hope I'm going to have right: I attend university as well as you majoring English and American studeis in Hungary. have you ever heard about derivation. Now "disillusionment" is one of it. There ae certain types of it, for instance deriving from verb to noun, from Adj to...

The talks on the Linguists Forum are preserved in a Japanese site. Q) Hello, I'm a graduate student at a university in Japan. In English class at Japanese high schools, students were told to put "the" before the name of musical instrument. But I often come across musical instruments without...

Hello As you said -ish and -like are both used as a suffix to form an adjective from a noun. And you are quite right that -ish gives a negative sense to the adjective. OED says "X-ish" is usually an adjective to mean "having the qualities of X" (e.g., boorish, foolish, swinish). But some...

Hi all, I'm not a native speaker of English, so I guess proofreading is necessarily for my essay. And, could you please look for non English phrases or expressions as I might not notice them, but you certainly will recognize that it is a strange way of expressing a point. Suggestions are...