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Steve H

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Re: Linguistic peculiarity
« Reply #25 on: October 23, 2017, 02:01:02 PM »
Quote from: Walter on October 23, 2017, 01:53:50 PM
get your goat off my mountain

it's not a goat it's a jacket !
Trousers are much more limb and much less torso than jackets.
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Re: Linguistic peculiarity
« Reply #26 on: October 23, 2017, 02:14:29 PM »
Quote from: Genial Harry Grout on October 23, 2017, 02:01:02 PM
Trousers are much more limb and much less torso than jackets.
Even short trousers?
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Re: Linguistic peculiarity
« Reply #27 on: October 23, 2017, 05:20:45 PM »
Quote from: Sebastian Toe on October 23, 2017, 02:14:29 PM
Even short trousers?
No, but short trousers are a special type of trousers. Anyway, languages are not neat and logical. If they were, we wouldn't have irregular verbs.
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Re: Linguistic peculiarity
« Reply #28 on: October 23, 2017, 05:22:39 PM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on October 23, 2017, 01:45:08 PM
Which therefore makes knickers closer to a waistcoat and a jacket closer to trousers.
In my post at the top of this page, I accidentally quoted the wrong post to reply to. I was intending to reply to this post.
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