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I wouldn't normally point this out, but considering the site is about learning languages, the mistake on the homepage: > (Advance search) is glaring. That sho
by 333c 7y ago
I wouldn't normally point this out, but considering the site is about learning languages, the mistake on the homepage:
> (Advance search)
is glaring. That should be "Advanced search" as in "click here to perform an advanced (adj) search," not as in "click here to advance (verb) [a] search," which is nonsensical.
- mnw21cam 7y agoOkay, context makes you mostly right. But. Advance is also a adjective, as in "Advance booking", which is a booking in advance. Lots of people incorrectly write "Advanced booking" instead, which is a technologically superior booking, and probably not what they meant.
- 333c 7y agoAdvance as an adjective (as in advance booking) means "ahead of time," whereas advanced as an adjective (as in advanced search) means "highly developed or complex," which is what is appropriate here. I was not trying to suggest in my original comment that "advance" as an adjective was inherently incorrect. All I was saying was that the phrase "advance search" is meaningless.