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> Canada becomes first G20 country to ban trade in shark fins I'm not a native English speaker and was expecting s/in/with since I read you are not allowed to
by JensRantil 7y ago
> Canada becomes first G20 country to ban trade in shark fins
I'm not a native English speaker and was expecting s/in/with since I read you are not allowed to use shark fins as transportation for trade.
- taejo 7y ago"trade in shark fins" is correct, "shark-fin trade" would be too; "trade with shark fins" would be weird. Compare the frequencies for a more common commodity: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=trade+in+wheat%2Ctrade+of+wheat%2Cwheat+trade%2Ctrade+with+wheat&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ctrade%20in%20wheat%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ctrade%20of%20wheat%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cwheat%20trade%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=trade+in+wheat...
- Doxin 7y ago"Trade with shark fins" sounds like you'd be using the shark fins as currency to me, that is to say grammatically correct but generally nonsensical.