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Then again, "Why must I always vacuum?" is definitely grammatically correct...

...and the more I roll "Why do I have to always vacuum?" around my head, the more normal it sounds...

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"Why do I have to always vacuum?" just sounds generally wrong. Running it around my head, I can just about imagine a context where a native might say it in that way - with a stress on the "always" - but it would still seem grammatically wrong, as though the person had started spe...

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I'm basically agnostic on the subject, but my main question would be - why are ghosts usually only seen in dark, quiet, spooky places? 👻 Tricks of the light/imagination aside, I suspect a lot of ghost stories have traditionally been thought up and spread about by farmers and other landowners - e.g.,...

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A friends cat was named Whisky. :) As a kid, we had two cats in succession called Whisky. I had no idea why they were christened Whisky. It wasn't until years later, when I met somebody else with a cat called Whisky that I realised that people call cats Whisky because of, well, their whisk - ers! I...

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I'm still experimenting, even just with Duolingo. I started as a bit of an obsessive note-taker, working on the idea that such a complicated language (Polish), even with the patient help of natives, could only be tackled with lots of notes. I'm having a go a Greek now, totally just doing a bit in th...

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Depends if I'm just popping in for a quick glance around or if I know I've got time to stay awhile. I'll sometimes click on an "end" post because it pops up with the notification thing, and then end up gradually reading loads of others in reverse order.

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I knew there was something else! I was going to mention the obvious "moonlight", but this song makes "twilight" somehow sound even more romantic...

" ♫ Kiss me, under the milky twilight.. ♫ "

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On the Duolingo uk-en course, they use родом to mean "originally (from)" e.g. Я родом з Нью Йорка. I'm originally from New York. Я родом із маленького містечка. I'm originally from a small town. I've found lots of examples of Russian "родом" listed as an adverb with that meaning,...

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Regarding Kate Middleton's third arm or hand "thingie": I don't have information about this topic and I really don't want to answer coz lack of knowledge on this topic. As far as I can tell, Kate Middleton (one of the Royal Family) edited a family photograph herself, but she didn't do it ...

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It's a fascinating subject. On the one hand, to my little mortal brain the universe seems to be so huge snd full of stuff that life should inevitably just pop up randomly, all of the time, and for at least a tiny percentage of those lifeforms to randomly evolve into something intelligent and spacefa...

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Explorer wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:22 pm
Do any of those words sound kinda old fashioned, lame, or too cheesy these days? Like, saying them could make your date bolt out the bathroom window, or even cost you a divorce?

Old fashioned and possibly cheesy, sure, but it's all about context.

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Dana_Dany Danuta , has it covered! :) "Suggest" is also sometimes used in a snootily sarcastic way, implying that something should be glaringly obvious. i.e. ... Random Posh but Clueless Spook: "It's no use, Ma'am. The only way to stop the rogue sentient-AI-death-ray-satellite is by ...

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"Darling" springs instantly to mind. It can be said almost frivolously, although still with affection - or seriously, with an intensity and a depth. However it is used, the word itself always seems to be loaded with life and positivity. There is something "pure" about the word &q...

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.. I bit the bullet and bought my copy... I could pleasantly take my time, and even reread it whenever I wanted to. It's that good. Yeah, I know it makes sense to just buy a copy - the library doesn't sound a practical option anyway, and somebody else could enjoy my copy after me. I'll read a bit o...

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I've never read the book or watched the previous miniseries, but the posts here prompted me to look the book up, and I thought I might try a bit of historical drama for a change. The book is obviously still popular in general, or people have taken a renewed interest since they heard of the new minis...

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Wow, gmads , you sent me down a rabbit hole with the fish/Jesus thing.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthys Anyway back to it... знамение (pronounced - známenije) Russian omen (First thing that jumped into my head for disciple was Sam Neill in The Omen giving his wild-eyed "Disciples of the W...

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.... "Umfahren" is a heteronym. 'Umfahren a) is stressed on the first syllable whereas Um' fahren b) is stressed on the second syllable. There are quite a few examples with prefixes which always work the same way: With the stress on the first syllable (the prefix) the literal sense of the...

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But there's more options with fungus, so...
Fuj, pleśń! Yuck, mould! (Polish)

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fuj! - Ew! (Polish interjection)

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грибковий - fungal (Ukrainian adjective)

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...and kept on falling! Hannes landed facedown in the hot, red sand several feet below, and he froze there for a moment - stunned and confused in equal measure. Where was the station platform? Why was there...sand? Cautiously, he untangled his limbs and looked up... ----Polish----- ...a on spadał da...

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Let's mix it up with a cheeky z...

arbuz
(Polish and Romanian)
watermelon

And that gives a hint of the weird beauty of the Romanian language - it's like a main course of Latin Mass, with a side order of Atilla the Hun.

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Slightly off-topic, but on the general Valenine "love" theme, I just "love" her voice...

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Love....

(edited - Thank you, Danuta! Dziękuję księżniczko!)

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@Enzfj2
Brilliant - that's cleared things up for me! Cheers.

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Is that a bit like "you" in English?

Where it can mean "you = a specific person"
i.e. "I'll call you tomorrow."

and

"you = people, in general"
i.e. "If you travel at the speed of light..."

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Oh no! It's been taken down? That was really good, too.

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For such a small thing, this is slightly doing my head in. :) The Duolingo course often refers to кексик as a cupcake, but I'm getting mixed results looking around online, trying to find out if it's the commonly used word for cupcake in Ukrainian. I've also seen ті́стечко used for small cakes, inclu...

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XeO3 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 1:16 am
The rarely seen 1935 Norman Rockwell classic, This Will End Badly

That is brilliant! Im robbing your picture.

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ararat-tempest wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 12:25 am
I'll get a new smartphone soon. my previous one was broken two months ago and I have no devices to take pictures. that's why I didn't post any pictures since then...

Looking forward to you getting us all salivating like Homer Jay again!

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