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I misread this headline as 'Cheap, Light, Transformed Civilization'
by 1attice 2y ago
I misread this headline as 'Cheap, Light, Transformed Civilization'
- shiroiushi 2y agoIt would be nice if English had a way to distinguish verbs from adjectives (and nouns), especially for titles/headlines like this.
- Affric 2y agoIt used to be fully inflected (what you want).
- NoMoreNicksLeft 2y agoIt's easier to inflect everything before your lexicon grows to 500,000 words. Just saying. In the time that we spent writing these comments, English stole-or-invented 15 more words, none of them regular enough that their inflection could be rule-derived.
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- nkrisc 2y agoSpoken English does by differing where the stress is placed in the word. That doesn’t make it into written English, however.
- myself248 2y agoHow about we include or omit the commas as a way of distinguishing?
- mikestew 2y ago"Pick two"?