drom et reve
 
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Tue 10 Aug, 2004 09:52 am


(Another English phrasal verb that makes no sense! Really, our language must be one of the most illogical mishmashes ever.)

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Bodhisattvawannabe
 
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Tue 10 Aug, 2004 09:54 am
London Times
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drom et reve
 
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Tue 10 Aug, 2004 09:56 am
Times, they are a' changing


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smog
 
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Tue 10 Aug, 2004 09:57 am
changing clothes

(And drĂ²m, it is, it really is. Yet, I still have the strong desire to understand it.)
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Bodhisattvawannabe
 
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Tue 10 Aug, 2004 09:58 am
clotheshorse
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Justthefax
 
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Tue 10 Aug, 2004 09:59 am
horse race
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drom et reve
 
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Tue 10 Aug, 2004 10:00 am
Quiet down-- turn the quiet down? Quieten? People are just so illogical with their 'fixes, adding them everywhere. If you think about things, 'out of' often makes little sense too...

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smog
 
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Tue 10 Aug, 2004 10:14 am
(I've stopped using two prepositions together if I think to avoid it. Generally, that's a bad move. And I'm not very fond of most verb phrases either, yet they have been engrained in my mind. Oh, English!)

race to the finish
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drom et reve
 
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Tue 10 Aug, 2004 10:19 am
(I have declared war on phrasal verbs; luckily, I know an equivalent for nearly every one of them.)

(English is fascinating, but O so ugly. And isn't it amazing that ours is one of the few languages that are spoken better by more foreigners than native speakers?)

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drom et reve
 
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Tue 10 Aug, 2004 10:20 am
Finish your job

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smog
 
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Tue 10 Aug, 2004 10:31 am
(My goal in life is to be better at English than foreigners, heh. I think that I still have a lot of work ahead of me...)

job to do
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drom et reve
 
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Tue 10 Aug, 2004 10:37 am
(O, Smog, your English is not in the 'worse than foreigners' category. You're one of the lucky ones ;D)

Do the Dew.

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smog
 
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Tue 10 Aug, 2004 10:49 am
(Phew! Wink)

dew drops
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Justthefax
 
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Tue 10 Aug, 2004 10:50 am
drops like flies
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Rick d Israeli
 
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Tue 10 Aug, 2004 12:29 pm
(He) Flies like Superman

dròm_et_rêve wrote:
Quite an oxymoron, isn't it?

I know :wink:
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drom et reve
 
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Tue 10 Aug, 2004 12:53 pm
Superman, a Nietzchean creation.

(I know that you knew ;D.)

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OnTheFritz
 
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Tue 10 Aug, 2004 01:24 pm
creation theory
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drom et reve
 
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Tue 10 Aug, 2004 01:43 pm
Theory test

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cavfancier
 
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Tue 10 Aug, 2004 02:17 pm
Test of Klees, a standard exam for the artist to take on apprentices.
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drom et reve
 
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Tue 10 Aug, 2004 02:34 pm
Apprentices' scheme


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