Really? Why, Lorikeet?
Larry Latham
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- Thu Sep 08, 2005 4:48 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: The Alps is/are?
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- Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:41 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: The Alps is/are?
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- Views: 11910
- Wed Sep 07, 2005 7:11 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: The Alps is/are?
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- Views: 11910
- Wed Sep 07, 2005 5:59 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: The Alps is/are?
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- Views: 11910
- Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:46 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: The Alps is/are?
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- Views: 11910
- Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:02 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: The Alps is/are?
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- Views: 11910
- Mon Sep 05, 2005 1:45 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Odd sentence?
- Replies: 28
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I do think you are quite right, lolwhites . Exactly when would structure not carry meaning? Can there be any question that the precise way in which we put words together, or attach affixes to certain words in certain places has quite a lot to do with the meanings of the expressions thus created? Loo...
- Sun Sep 04, 2005 6:57 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Odd sentence?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 8523
This is just one more example of on occasion where you have to resort to semantics rather than grammar to explain why a sentence doesn't work. When asked "Is this sentence correct", I would ask the student what situation they envisage when saying the sentence. It makes me wonder where syntax ends a...
- Fri Sep 02, 2005 6:58 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Odd sentence?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 8523
Yes, there is. But the original sentence is a bit odd too. I hasten to add, however, that (as I'm certain you clearly know) both sentences are possible, which is to say that neither is wrong. Odd because bottles do not usually break by themselves, and out of context these sentences seem to imply tha...
- Wed Aug 31, 2005 12:27 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Lessening prices?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 12949
I had a look at the link after I wrote the post above, and see that the statement in question may indeed have been written rather than spoken. I'm not totally sure, but I may have been wrong about that. But my point still stands. Here is a quote from a World Bank report from July, 2002 about housing...
- Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:58 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Lessening prices?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 12949
Sure, Larry, the meaning of "lessening prices" is perfectly clear. Then again, as teachers, how often do we come across mistakes when it's perfectly clear what the student was trying to say. Let me put it another way: If one of your students wrote The shopkeeper decided to lessen his prices. , do y...
- Tue Aug 23, 2005 9:52 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Galore
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5167
Not to mention Chinese 'Pao\ Cha/.' There is quite a ritual to making tea properly the Chinese way. Water temperature is important (not quite boiling, but very close), as is the water's mineral makeup . Then there is the tea itself along with where it is grown and how it is harvested and processed, ...
- Tue Aug 23, 2005 9:23 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Galore
- Replies: 20
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Thanks for the offer, Sally. Your mom must be truly talented with those crochet thingamabobs. (Needles??) Coffee cozys! Never heard of 'em before. I guess that may be because I've spent most of my life in warm weather country (although I did go to school in Michigan, and worked for 6 years in Wiscon...
- Sat Aug 20, 2005 9:13 pm
- Forum: Adult Education
- Topic: Beer and English
- Replies: 7
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I guess this is where we have a (show and) tell about what we used to do and where we've been. :) In Taipei, I often taught evening classes (daytimes were normally one-on-one, small groups of 2 or 3, or company sponsored classes) running from about 6:00 to 9:00. Sometimes (maybe once a month), I inv...
- Sat Aug 20, 2005 6:38 am
- Forum: Adult Education
- Topic: Beer and English
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3024