What is an article? What does it do? Can articles do more than just define a noun? Could they possibly do the opposite of their surface meaning? Find out this week as I talk about the value and use of the definite article in Arabic and Hebrew, and a peculiar use of the Persian indefiniteContinue reading “THE word (Ep. 5)”
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Never Ask a Lady (Ep. 3)
What is the one thing you never as a lady? Her age! In this episode, I walk you through the diversity, and similarity, between the way a number of languages express age. Was your language not included and it has a special construction? Let me know and I’ll be sure to feature it later, asContinue reading “Never Ask a Lady (Ep. 3)”