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		<title>Babylon is fallen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[♪♩♫ Joy to the world 
The Lord is come&#8230; ♫♩♪
Wait, wait. The Lord is come? Isn&#8217;t there something wrong? First, we know that come cannot be in the passive voice here, as come is an intransitive verb, it does not have an object, which basically means it cannot have a passive form. On the other hand, if it was in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.linglish.net/2008/11/15/babylon-is-fallen/</link>
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		<title>So many nationality suffixes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After posting my other article So many negative prefixes, I received very positive feedback and many readers apparently found the article interesting and useful. Indeed, these little affixes (prefixes and suffixes) can be puzzling when they are similar in meaning but nevertheless non-interchangeable. That makes people ask why they are what they are: is there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.linglish.net/2008/10/22/so-many-nationality-suffixes/</link>
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		<title>I very like it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I very like it.
It may sound somewhat weird to native ears, but a lot of my Chinese students produce sentences like this one. What is weird here is simple. First, the adverb &#8220;very&#8221; seems to be misplaced. It should either be moved to the end of the sentence, or be replaced with another adverb like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.linglish.net/2008/10/11/i-very-like-it/</link>
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		<title>So many negative prefixes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In English, we can use a number of prefixes on adjectives to form their opposites. The following pairs come to mind as examples:



typical
atypical


hydrous
anhydrous


social
antisocial


honest
dishonest


legal
illegal


possible
impossible


active
inactive


regular
irregular


existent
nonexistent


kind
unkind



In most cases, these prefixes are not interchangeable, so we do not have *unlegal or *apossible, for instance. Of course, fluent speakers have no problem in using the right prefix for the right [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.linglish.net/2008/09/15/so-many-negative-prefixes/</link>
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		<title>More on the centrifuge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last few weeks I was totally absorbed by the Olympic Games, which accounted for the absence of new posts on this blog. Now I would like to go back to a topic we discussed earlier. In A natural centrifuge in English, we took a look at the general tendency in English to delay a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.linglish.net/2008/08/29/more-on-the-centrifuge/</link>
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