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English is weird
Papersatan:
One last thing on Magenta v. Red. Magenta is not one of the 11 English color words. We could always get more specific with color names, but the 11 words we teach children, that ESL students learn and which you need to know to have basic competence in life are the ones I was talking about. Magenta would need to be pink, purple, or red. Where you put it may be up for debate, but calling it magenta isn't an option in the exercise I was doing.
Unrelated:
There are a bunch of words that I always type as compound words but that are not. My internal logic had decided that they SHOULD be compound words, and just refuses to type them with a space between. The two I have just used in this paper I am writing: be able, in front. If I were a linguist I would be interested to look at the full list and see if there is actually a logical pattern to the word pairs I do this with, because it is not all pairs that regularly come in sets.
Pilchard123:
You should write a book about it! Call it "The Tales of Beable the Barred; or, words that aren't allowed but that I use anyway"
Redball:
--- Quote from: Papersatan on 19 Sep 2012, 13:17 --- The two I have just used in this paper I am writing: be able, in front.
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Put them in sentences.
Zingoleb:
I do that with every phrases. Everynight, everytime. Everyday is a word, so why not?
LTK:
Everyday does not mean every day.
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