I never realized that about silver and gold. That's awesome ... as is your poem!
A Korean student I was tutoring in the US wrote a presentation about the European exploration of the Americas and listed Columbus' ships as "the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina". I'm so used to seeing "the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria" that it looked wrong at first -- but they're just ship names, so it shouldn't matter what order they come in, right? (I told him that, while his way wasn't wrong, there's usually a set order that people use to name the ships.)
I think in Korea, they like to say the most valuable or important part first, in case people stop paying attention in the middle of the sentence.
This is (according to my student) why they say "gold and silver," why they put the higher percentage first on a sale sign (e.g. 90%~70% down vs. 70%~ 90% off in the U.S.), and, according to David, why they put the verb at the end of the sentence.
I always thought verbs were pretty important, but evidently some people disagree with me.
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A Korean student I was tutoring in the US wrote a presentation about the European exploration of the Americas and listed Columbus' ships as "the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina". I'm so used to seeing "the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria" that it looked wrong at first -- but they're just ship names, so it shouldn't matter what order they come in, right? (I told him that, while his way wasn't wrong, there's usually a set order that people use to name the ships.)
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This is (according to my student) why they say "gold and silver," why they put the higher percentage first on a sale sign (e.g. 90%~70% down vs. 70%~ 90% off in the U.S.), and, according to David, why they put the verb at the end of the sentence.
I always thought verbs were pretty important, but evidently some people disagree with me.
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