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English language pits
Oh yes, that's true - and it baffles me as a non native speaker (make this: bloody foreigner) when I see
"there" mixed up with "their" (and vice versa) or "then" and "than" &c. &c. (By the way, shouldn't it be spelt inconsistency?) Kind regards - papercaptain Last edited by Papercaptain; 05-07-2017 at 09:47 AM. |
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actually it is 3 of them, There, Their, and They're
they all sound alike, yet all have different meanings and uses
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When I grew up in Wyoming there were a lot of oil trucks marked inflammable, then they were remarked flammable. If they were not inflammable the were marked for a time
noninflammable. I was told flammable meant" it burns", inflammable meant "yes it burns" and noninflammable therefore meant "no yes it burns". Bob |
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As one of my foreign student friends said, how can one possibly hope to learn a language where 'fat chance' and 'slim chance' mean the same damnable thing?
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Or the word " big" is half the size of "little". But then again, why is abbreviated such a large word?
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My understanding of the flammable/inflammable debate was that flammable materials generally require setting on fire, such as paper, wood etc. Inflammable is for products that could ignite just by being close to a heat source such as liquid fuel.
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Inflammable and flammable is a same thing actually, what you're referring to is flammable (things which have flash point below 100 F) and combustible (things that have flash point above 100 F), it's thing I learned on HSE class
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And then there is the old "is" and "are" problem in English - most Australians have no idea there is a difference.
I was once married to a woman who should have written a book for grammar nazis. She even took to taking a marker into the local supermarket to correct their apostrophes. Charlie (For the non-English speakers - "there is" refers to singular things e.g. there is a dog on the sofa. "there are" refers to plural things e.g. there are bats in my belfry.) |
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