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Don't Eat With Your Mouth Full

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  • ron_broxted
    23 Jan 2021, 17:05
    Deer and Doughnuts
    Russian mice go "peep" Serb dogs "Grr grr"
  • steepholm
    23 Jan 2021, 15:52
    Deer and Doughnuts
    Yes, Japanese doesn't both with any of those, although it makes up for it by having a plethora of count nouns generally. Animals are either smallish (hiki) or largish (tou). A dog is one, a horse the…
  • ron_broxted
    23 Jan 2021, 15:28
    Deer and Doughnuts
    Try collective nouns. My Russian pal (fluent English) at Cambridge, "Look, a herd of fish". Shoal. School? Schul? A shoal of fish, a pride of lions, a sinister of crows, ravens...Stop he yelled, you…
  • steepholm
    19 Jan 2021, 21:03
    Deer and Doughnuts
    It's not something I'm very familiar with, although I believe my grandfather was a passionate advocate.
  • heleninwales
    19 Jan 2021, 16:58
    Deer and Doughnuts
    I could never master the tonic solfa because I'd learned to read music on staves before the music teacher introduced solfa. As a visual thinker, the musical notation was much more intuitive because…

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