Timeline for prepositional phrases strong enough to bring 'the' before the nouns they modify?
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| Sep 20, 2013 at 2:48 | comment | added | rhetorician | @Cyberherbalist: Question: What do you call a person who speaks three languages? Answer: Trilingual. Question: What do you call a person who speaks two languages? Answer: Bilingual. Question: What do you call a person who speaks one language? Answer: An American! | |
| Sep 20, 2013 at 0:04 | comment | added | Cyberherbalist | @rhetorician, I'm an American, yet I speak German. Too. | |
| Aug 30, 2013 at 21:21 | answer | added | Greg Hullender | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 10, 2013 at 23:08 | answer | added | Struckoutinthree | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 11, 2013 at 21:10 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Ben: Hmm. In BrE at least, it would be possible for me to have said "Give the man a coconut!" as an emphatic endorsement, but I'm not sure "Give the man a banana!" quite works. I didn't actually expect the asterisks to be visible - I thought the system would just display a couple of "bold" spaces before and after the only thing I really had to say. Yes (OP's paraphrasings are perfectly okay). | |
| Jun 11, 2013 at 18:40 | comment | added | Ben Lee | @FumbleFingers, asterisks as filler to meet the minimum comment length? You should be ashamed for abusing the system like that. Everyone knows you're supposed to use bananas for this. | |
| Jun 4, 2013 at 12:45 | comment | added | rhetorician | Japanese speak Japanese. French speak French. Spanish speak Spanish. Americans speak American-English. Swedes speak Swedish. Some Belgians speak Flemish. Go figure! | |
| Jun 4, 2013 at 10:40 | comment | added | TrevorD | People in Japan (interpreted literally) could include visitors in Japan, who may not speak Japanese. What's wrong with (The) Japanese people? | |
| S Jun 4, 2013 at 4:41 | history | edited | James Waldby - jwpat7 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 4, 2013 at 2:38 | comment | added | John Lawler | These are generic noun phrases. They're nearly identical, but the differences tend to be very specific to the context. | |
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| Jun 4, 2013 at 2:15 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | ** ** Yes. ** ** | |
| Jun 4, 2013 at 2:06 | history | asked | Sssamy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |