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Lisa C Bassignani

Wed 28th Aug 2019 14:06

Learnt and still learning

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Don Matthews

Wed 28th Aug 2019 14:03

English meanings change with the wind, yep
Does wind here mean what blows intense?
Or that which blows out of ones orifice
The wind that we nicely call flatulence

Bloody English.....

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Jason Bayliss

Wed 28th Aug 2019 12:38

That is actually true, I would often write learnt and not learned but honestly these days there is some crossover between English English and American English.
Which leaves the unfortunate situation where learned now has two pronunciations and two definitions:
Learned: (pronounced Lernd) a learnt thing.
Learned: (pronounced Lern-ed) a scholarly person.
As a Polish friend used to say, " Bloody English, the meanings change with the wind!"

J. x

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Don Matthews

Tue 27th Aug 2019 23:57

I've also learned something today
Americans end learn with an 'ed'
But Aussies and Brits do it differently
We end it with 't' like I've said

Golly gosh! what would we do without Google?

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Jason Bayliss

Tue 27th Aug 2019 21:59

It's always a good day if a lesson is learned, well mostly.?

J. x

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