Listen now (26 mins) | To record is to cord again, right? Not exactly.
When someone mentions Carol King instead I think Carol Channing. Always a surprise when the singing starts
An unexpected backshift is what makes this Simpsons quote from Mr. Burns so memorable: https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/720db2eb-f0c5-4cea-afd7-ac5c5d737194
In Argentina, “re” is used in the same way as “muy”, as in “Es re sabroso.”
Is there a ‘transitive re-‘? So many of the ‘re-‘ words that are nearly synonymous with their stems seem to add a quality of transferral or sharing. So the repetition would be from passing it along?
One for the Record Books
When someone mentions Carol King instead I think Carol Channing. Always a surprise when the singing starts
An unexpected backshift is what makes this Simpsons quote from Mr. Burns so memorable: https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/720db2eb-f0c5-4cea-afd7-ac5c5d737194
In Argentina, “re” is used in the same way as “muy”, as in “Es re sabroso.”
Is there a ‘transitive re-‘? So many of the ‘re-‘ words that are nearly synonymous with their stems seem to add a quality of transferral or sharing. So the repetition would be from passing it along?