Lawyer-linguist, lecturer, language lover. ATA President (2001-2003). UVA Law Grad. ATA-certified translator from French, Spanish, German and Dutch to English

Lookout Mountain, TN
Joined June 2012
Replying to @GrammarTable
My question is who are Мстители and what do they have to do with Harry Potter and Sherlock Holmes? – at Chattanooga, TN
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This is my son Thomas West, singing at Juilliard: Stay In My Arms by Marc Blitzstein youtu.be/cVGmuyo-M_k?si=5-6j… via @YouTube
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If you’re a speaker of American English, does “set-down area” mean anything to you? As a child of the 60s and 70s, I’m reminded of the Beverly Hillbillies: come on in and “set” a spell. Y’all come back now, ya hear!
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With Brahms in the city of his birth.
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You can see why the words build and built are hard for people who speak a language in which final consonants are always devoiced.
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