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missdaredevil
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 Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:39 pm Post subject: bike |
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Is it true that bike has two meanings? One means bicycle and the other means motorcycle.
How to distinguish the two? |
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Bob S.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:52 am Post subject: Re: bike |
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| missdaredevil wrote: |
Is it true that bike has two meanings? One means bicycle and the other means motorcycle.
How to distinguish the two? |
It has to be established early in the story what the person has. Or from the context. In any case, if you started off a story with "My friend bought a new bike," it would be confusing as to which kind of bike even to native English speakers. |
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Blossom
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 2:53 pm Post subject: Bikes |
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| Why not motor bike? |
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toe
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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certainly you could use motor bike.
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