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<font color="#000000">From: </font><span name="Steven Hanson" class="">Steven Hanson</span><span style="white-space:nowrap"> </span><span class="" style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="mailto:ammurit@gmail.com">ammurit@gmail.com</a></span><font color="#000000"><br>

Subject: </font><span style="white-space:nowrap">LL-L "Idiomatica" 2014.01.19 (02) [EN]</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><br></span></div>

<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Regarding worked hard vs. hardly worked, I came across this video on <a href="http://merriam-webster.com/" target="_blank">merriam-webster.com</a>regarding ‘flat adverbs’ just the other day, which may (or may not) be interesting to my fellow list viewers.<u></u><u></u></span></p>

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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/video/0030-flatadverbs.htm?&t=1390160653" target="_blank">http://www.merriam-webster.com/video/0030-flatadverbs.htm?&t=1390160653</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>

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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Steven<u></u><u></u></span></p><div class="im"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">From: </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Mike Morgan <<a href="mailto:mwmbombay@gmail.com" target="_blank">mwmbombay@gmail.com</a>><br>

<u></u><u></u></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Subject: LL-L "Idiomatica" 2014.01.18 (03) [EN]<br></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> <br></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Well, there is "out of luck"... but I too am not sure "I lucked out" would ever be taken to mean no luck...<br>

</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">As for strangely similar/confusing opposites, a favourite (and a real bugabear for L2 learners who learn that adverbs are formed by adding -ly to adjectives) is:<br></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I worked hard.<br>

</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">vs<br></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I hardly worked.<br></span> <br><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">mwm || *U*C> || mike || </span><span style="font-family:Mangal,serif">माईक</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> || мика || </span><span style="font-family:'MS Gothic'">マイク</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> (aka Dr Michael W Morgan)<br>

sign language linguist / linguistic typologist<br>academic adviser, Nepal Sign Language Training and Research<br>NDFN, Kathmandu, Nepal<br></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">sign language linguist / linguistic typologist<br>

</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">academic adviser, Nepal Sign Language Training and Research<br></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">NDFN, Kathmandu, Nepal</span></blockquote><div> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">

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