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sophiko
Восьмая свеча
Dec 18, 2009 20:28
Замечательное наблюдение за тонкостями поведения суффиксов уместилось буквально в двух фразах. Английский суффикс в умелых руках способен на tongue-in-cheek экспрессию идиш:
ALL Jews know that you need to buy your Hanukkah candles before the first night. Those of us who are merely Jew-ISH get them at the grocery store, and the grocery store will
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Like(-le) prefix :)
meshulash
December 18 2009, 22:56:06 UTC
All ish did that. Iden-tifying.
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Suffixes-shmuffixes?
sophiko
December 20 2009, 09:27:31 UTC
Iden-tification is genius!
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