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fpbThe opening sentence - the opening sentence, mind you - of today's Dennis Prager column:
One of the reasons for the ascendance of the English-speaking world has been that the English language is almost alone among major languages in having the word "earn."
The man evidently knows no foreign language, and, what is more, does not expect any of his readers to. Incidentally, whatever he was paid for this column was not money well earned.
One of the reasons for the ascendance of the English-speaking world has been that the English language is almost alone among major languages in having the word "earn."
The man evidently knows no foreign language, and, what is more, does not expect any of his readers to. Incidentally, whatever he was paid for this column was not money well earned.
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Date: 2009-04-21 05:37 pm (UTC)More examples of Germanic-style compounds: nevertheless, another, bedroom, homeschool
Example of French-style compounds: howdy!
You often get borrowed words from other languages (deja vu) and coined words that use common suffixes or prefixes, like blogosphere or snarktastic