Originally posted by Phoenixs BAKKU-SHAN. The Japanese word for: "A woman that looks like a stunner from behind, but when she turns around it's not a pretty sight."
It must be easy to be Japanese Single words that cover complex sentences But it would probably take me ages to learn it
English is actually one of the least efficient and effective languages to communicate in. In English few words represent more than a single abrupt meaning or have had their meaning stripped from them.
Words like rivulet used to have a specific meaning, but have been reduced to meaning almost nothing. The MW dicitonary definition is little streams from a river. Well, that is today's definition not the original. Rivulets used to only refer to blood flowing like rivers, on a battle field or such, and was able to convey more than just a visual of a liquid streaming but also wanton slaughter and a sense of destruction or grievence. A lot of words have been stripped of any real meaning in modern usage English, television news is a primary source of this degredation of language.
Originally posted by Vyava The title is grammatically incorrect. You mix past and present tenses while describing a single time period. "If you only learned one thing yesterday..." or "If you only learn one thing today..." It is one or the other, not both.
Things that already happened 'today' are past tense too Depends on the context...
"Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth." - Henry Mencken
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." - Steven Weinberg
"And what would you do with a brain if you had one?" - Wizard of Oz
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English is actually one of the least efficient and effective languages to communicate in. In English few words represent more than a single abrupt meaning or have had their meaning stripped from them.
Words like rivulet used to have a specific meaning, but have been reduced to meaning almost nothing. The MW dicitonary definition is little streams from a river. Well, that is today's definition not the original. Rivulets used to only refer to blood flowing like rivers, on a battle field or such, and was able to convey more than just a visual of a liquid streaming but also wanton slaughter and a sense of destruction or grievence. A lot of words have been stripped of any real meaning in modern usage English, television news is a primary source of this degredation of language.
"Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth." - Henry Mencken
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." - Steven Weinberg
"And what would you do with a brain if you had one?" - Wizard of Oz