@RegDwigнt I just listened really briefly on my phone, but I have family here since we're celebrating my Japanese mother-in-law's 100th birthday today, so I don't have access to my computer, but i did hear the first words are utsukushiku kikoeru, which means something like "listen beautifully" or "beautiful listening" but I would have to listen closely tio the widely spaced syllables (
it's a song, which causes problems) to figure out the word boundaries, and that won't happen till my kids go home tomorrow.
Can we use "as" in this manner?
It is very hot here in the summers. However it isn't as hot in the countryside.
or
It is very hot here in the summers. However in the countryside, it isn't as hot.
I've searched the web but only found sources using as...as for comparison. I think my sentences j...
@user8718165 If you simply say "It isn't as hot in the countryside." without any context, it is implied that you're comparing the heat of the countryside to something else.
I'm not sure what else you're looking for in an answer
If you just drop in somewhere and say "It isn't as hot in the countryside", it is implied that you're comparing it to the current location you're in, which is not the countryside
@user8718165 I guess it's just ellipsis. "It isn't as hot in the countryside [as it is hot in here]."
okay, thanks :-) I was worried because I didn't have anybody to consult with and I was always taught **as** has to be followed by **as**. What added to my worries was that there weren't any reputable source on the web to support my views.
@M.A.R. I like that kind of teaching :-) Could you please tell me why is comparison with just a single as not widely used? Is it just a matter of choice? I doubt I've ever seen it in some book
@user8718165 It's common enough, but I guess that you expect it to be more common and it's not is it's not usually easy to figure out what is being implied
And I'm no teacher, haha. I'm a nonnative speaker myself, and an ESL.
So about 7 or 8 months ago my grandmother, who i was very close to, passed away.
The night of her wake my little sister and I went home alone at about 10 pm. We stayed at our house alone, with the dog.
I specifically remember walking through the kitchen and closing our basement door to keep m...
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@marcellothearcane Well, lemme put it this way: Before learning English, I had no idea I should pay attention to where I put the space. There was some sort of inner drive for consistency, but I didn't even know where to look.
And English learner books teach you what "discombobulate" means but they don't tell you where the space should go.
For NNS that try to be neater, their choice of French punctuation would only be because they don't know where to put the space and they don't know where to look.
"You have to go over to the closet either and get a rag or a towel." - I think this is the worst position, out of all the positions that are earlier than the original position.
Or perhaps that would be "... to the either closet and get ..."
Conversely, how *late* can you put "either"?
"Either that's the hissing of air leaking out, or there are snakes in here." "That's either the hissing of air leaking out, or there are snakes in here." "That's the hissing of air either leaking out, or there are snakes in here."
@M.A.R. Old musicians never die, they just decompose.
Absolutely all of those work for me (though sounding a little inarticulate) except for: You have to go either over to the either closet and get a rag or a towel. You have to go either over to the closet and get a either rag or a towel. You have to go either over to the closet and get a rag either or a towel.
and maybe some others
@M.A.R. Why do they call a viola in German 'ein Bratsche'?
Because that's the sound it makes when you sit on it.
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@Xanne In the US the news is constantly... just there to mess with you. THere's always death and misery, but nowadays it seems like there's also something to be incensed about. Constantly.
You start pronouncing things the way the original speakers pronounce it which means absolutely nobody (even the original speakers but mostly your friends) understands.
I mean an actual chess novel where it's the pawn that just moves forward one step every turn until it gets queened? What kind of stupid boring game is that.
How about one where the king is hemmed in by the rook knight and queen, but in two moves has captured the queen and all the remaining pawns have been queened.
Neither do I. I remember the Song of Solomon: "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine." Let Huddleston et.al. parse that.
My favorite read in linguistics (besides Lawler) is Birner and Ward:[T]here is a restricted class of uses of N[oun]P[hrases] containing the definite article that do not require uniqueness to guarantee felicity...In each of the above cases, the definite NP - the hospital, the bank, and the grocery store, respectively - refers to some non-unique and not necessarily familiar entity, yet the use of the definite is felicitous.
I think felicity is a splendid criterion. Birner is, not so incidentally, one of the co-authors of Huddleston et.al. CGEL.
Hey, anyone know of a word like "guesthouse" but instead of guests living in it, employees live there? Like servants, groundskeepers, etc. working at "main house"
@RegDwigнt OK, I looked at this a little more closely. I'm still not hearing words in some of her non-connected syllables. So the starting phrase is 美しく 聞こえるのは (utsukushiku kikoeru no wa) and it's different from my first glance yesterday,
closer to "I can listen beautifully" because -ku makes utsukushii an adverbial and kikoeru is "listen/hear" plus the -eru ending, which turns an ordinary verb into an expression of ability. And the no wa is one way to express reason (because)
After that, though, she pops out syllables more or less one at a time—in time to the song, not to a standard speaking diction. And her western accent doesn't help. I'm going to assume she's saying 愛ちっていくから which I'm going to say is "because I love (you/it)" ...
Note that her last syllable definitely sounds like la to me, which phoneme is not available in Japanese (I transliterated it as ra so that it would make some sense ... kara is "from" and can be used to mean because as well)
Hope that helps. I never feel 100% when trying to interpret singing ... :\
@Thing-um-a-jig Servants' hall? Staff lodgings? Sounds either a bit upstairs downstairs or worse Django Unchained. I can't think of the obvious word (if there is one)
thanks @Mitch, that got me looking in the right direction... first definition for "lodge" from Oxford is "a small house at the gates of a park or in the grounds of a large house, occupied by a gatekeeper, gardener, or other employee" -- not what I'd usually think of a "lodge" as, but it works
Can we use "as" in this manner?
It is very hot here in the summers. However it isn't as hot in the countryside.
or
It is very hot here in the summers. However in the countryside, it isn't as hot.
I've searched the web but only found sources using as...as for comparison. I think my sentences j...
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