LL-L "Idiomatica" 2014.01.19 (03) [EN]

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From: Steven Hanson ammurit at gmail.com
Subject: LL-L "Idiomatica" 2014.01.19 (02) [EN]

Regarding worked hard vs. hardly worked, I came across this video on
merriam-webster.comregarding ‘flat adverbs’ just the other day, which may
(or may not) be interesting to my fellow list viewers.



http://www.merriam-webster.com/video/0030-flatadverbs.htm?&t=1390160653



Steven



> From: Mike Morgan <mwmbombay at gmail.com>
> Subject: LL-L "Idiomatica" 2014.01.18 (03) [EN]
>
> Well, there is "out of luck"... but I too am not sure "I lucked out" would
> ever be taken to mean no luck...
> 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:
> I worked hard.
> vs
> I hardly worked.
>
> mwm || *U*C> || mike || माईक || мика || マイク (aka Dr Michael W Morgan)
> sign language linguist / linguistic typologist
> academic adviser, Nepal Sign Language Training and Research
> NDFN, Kathmandu, Nepal
> sign language linguist / linguistic typologist
> academic adviser, Nepal Sign Language Training and Research
> NDFN, Kathmandu, Nepal



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