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English is weird
brilligtove:
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It's kind of funny how the definition of "spooky" has morphed from "strange and frightening" to "fun and halloweeny."
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--- Quote from: LTK on 03 Nov 2018, 04:55 ---
It's also funny that Dutch has always had a word for "fun and halloweeny", griezelig, and English is only now catching up.
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The Story of Human Language, John McWhorter on Audible. It has lots of discussion on this kind of shift in meaning and understanding1 over time. It's terrific.2
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1 How does "to stand under" mean "comprehend" because why, exactly?
2 Not in the older sense of causing terror, of course.
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Have any of you heard this series? Extremely informative.
Is it cold in here?:
From an interpretive edition of the Bible, the educational commentary says
--- Quote ---Ephraim is usually located about twelve miles northeast of Jerusalem
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LTK:
Wait, is Ephraim the person in that context?
Is it cold in here?:
It was a town.
LeeC:
5 Brilliant English Words Only Used in North America
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab2uKHjNN8Q
I do use rambunctious, ornery(disagreeably stubborn), and discombobulated. I am not familiar with the others.
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