The reason one says good-looking is because someone looks good.
This is just the same reason why it’s nice-sounding for sounding nice, sweet-smelling for smelling sweet, good-tasting for tasting good, bird-watching for watching birds, acid-producing for producing acid, bear-baiting for baiting ...
allyson-wonderlnd: flashthepremium: allyson-wonderlnd: I don’t know who did all these, but I tip my hat to them. Aragorn is an Avenger now, apparantly. It’s not stated that he is. Marvel never stated that he *isn’t*
@AndrewLeach I was thinking of something that had to do with compound words involving verbs and objects, and how the object comes first. I feel like the matter has come up before here, although I am not positive it was directly posed as a specific question.
You know, graham crackers (well, he was a Scot after all) were the only junkfood out of a host of many presented by an American to a Brit that he didn’t find positively appalling. I posted the link here once. Rather amusing.
Of course, the revulsion worked both ways: marmite.
A couple of the people on my new team are Brits. We were at a Chinese restaurant and dippy veggie springrolls in daubs of that rather powerful Chinese mustard.
And the Brit was asked why it was that all British food is notoriously somewhere between bland and insipid, save for the mustard alone, which would curl every hair on your body, especially the ones you had forgotten existed.
His laconic response was something like “We’re just tough like that” or some such. I forget what word he used for tough.
But yeah, it's not like all over the world you can just wander out to the local British-food restaurant venue and have your fill of greasy crap.
Free market at work: French pharmacies a mile away have the exact same stuff for 6 Euros that German pharmacies half a mile away sell for 20. Yes, more than threefold.
Formally speaking, good is an adjective and well is an adverb. So in formal speech or writing, you would want to maintain this distinction.
Informally, English speakers can often use an adjective in place of an adverb. This is especially clear for words that take an -ly suffix to form an adver...
I don't understand the last line of the answer given: "Also people don't stand for prolonged durations just because it causes the desire to sit down, followed by the joy of finally sitting down." Could somebody please rephrase it for me?