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Chan-Seung Lee

Joined: 03 Dec 2005
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Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 6:41 am Post subject: long, short

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1.This product is long in salt.
2.Eat food long in vitamins.

1.Do they make sense?
2.Then, what does 'long' mean in the above examples?

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m_prime

Joined: 28 Dec 2008
Posts: 52
Location: Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:42 am Post subject:

Neither sentence is correct, 'long' is the wrong collacation (inappropriate adjective) to use. 'High' or 'rich' would work better, both simply mean that the food has a lot of salt / vitamins

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