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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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Pronoun pickiness -
What drives me nuts is 'westerners' saying "We're pregnant." 
I can understand the expression when uttered by a female... but when a male says it, my retort is usually "No, she's pregnant... you're biologically incapable."  |
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crusher_of_heads
Joined: 23 Feb 2007
Location: kimbop and kimchi for kimberly!!!!
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| cruisemonkey wrote: |
Pronoun pickiness -
What drives me nuts is 'westerners' saying "We're pregnant."
I can understand the expression when uttered by a female... but when a male says it, my retort is usually "No, she's pregnant... you're biologically incapable." |
Subconscious fear of being a cuckhold. |
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kiwiliz
Joined: 20 Apr 2006
Location: New Zealand
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My father, who was an English prof, had a rule against saying "very unique," since "unique" means "one of a kind."
But I argue that an item differing greatly from other kinds is more unique than an item differing slightly from other kinds.
Consider the hierarchy of kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species.
If a plant or animal is the only one on a higher level, it would be more unique than a plant or animal on a lower level. |
Then wouldn't it be 'more uniqie' or 'the most unique'? |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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Koreans misuse delicious because they don't know the word "tasty".
Once my students learn the terms they readily admit that rice is tasty, not delicious. That's right, 90% of students believe 'rice is not delicious'. Perhaps that's part of the reason why all degrees of liking are lumped into the delicious category in Korea, to fan national pride about their food. |
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