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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • People are answering your headline but not understanding your question; the two aren’t as linked as they would be in French.

    All of these are valid:

    • I went to a Moscow school
    • I went to a school in Moscow
    • I went to a Versaille cafe
    • I went to a cafe in Versaille.
    • I dated a London girl
    • I dated a girl from London

    These sound more natural than the following:

    • I went to a Muscovite school
    • I went to a Versaillian cafe (People have been giving you the direct French for Versaillais, but English wouldn’t use fhat)
    • I dated a Londoner girl.

    At least for Muscovite, it retains the implication that the school is for people from Moscow, rather than the school being in Moscow. You could have a Muscovite school in London. You could have a Versaillian cafe in Osaka.

    You can see this a lot more often in religion, eg. I went to a Presbyterian school - I went to a school for Presbyterians.





  • You’ve combined the two things together and said they are worse than one on its own. Duh.

    The original poster is talking about the vast majority of kids today who do in fact get a decent sex education and if they see/hear their parents going at it, the ‘trauma’ is in seeing them in an unexpected context, not thinking Dad is beating mom.


  • I’m starting to think you mostly don’t know what “assertion” means, which is the sort of literacy I expect from the illegal border-running English teachers I met in Cambodia.

    I am asking you for clarification, and have done twice now. What the fuck are you talking about? Even the guy from Florida who asserted he wouldn’t sleep with any prostitute over 45kg because they were “basically a man” would understand that question.