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Kooyeen Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

How to find the false coin? <--What? Is that a question?

0 Hi,02br
01b00I want to do this, this and this, but I can't do this, this, and this. So, 01u00how to do that?02u02b02br
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00Is that a very short way to express a doubt, ask an indirect question, ask something in very condensed style, or is that just Engrish? (yes, with the "r")02br
00I think it is ok as a title, like "How to distroy the world", but I'm not sure if you can reduce a question that way. Like "Seen Jack?" is a very short version of "Have you seen Jack?", and it is in use and ok, but is "...how to do something?" in use by native speakers?02br
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00The fact is I see questions like that everywhere, everytime... This forum is full of that, the net is full of that, blogs, chat rooms, manuals, tutorials, are all full of that. Really. But is that Engrish or English? 02br
00Thank you 050010id1
  

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, you might be able to present it as "headline English". 02br 02br 00MrP0-

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0Hello Kooyeen,02br
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00It can occur in ordinary English as a sign of incomprehension, e.g.01blockquote
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10"Do you know how to disengage a tesseract from a plectrocinth?"12br
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10"How to disengage a 11i10what12i10?"12br
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10As a title of a post,
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0Hi,02br
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00I wouldn't say it's completely 'Engrish' only. 02br
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00It's very compressed and informal, of course. It sounds like the speaker is being rhetorical, not expecting that the other person can provide an answer.02br
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00However, I would recommend to English learners that they don't say this, but learn instead how to a
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0Thank you 05002br
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00 Well, for example, what I continuously see are sentences like these:02br
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00 I'd like to learn English in this forum. My pronunciation is not good, so how to improve it?02br
00 He doesn't want his troops to get out of Iraq. Then, how to avoid another three thousand deaths?02br
00 I have a ques
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0Hi,02br
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01font00I'd like to learn English in this forum. My pronunciation is not good, so how to improve it?02font02br
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01font00In this and in almost all contexts, definitely make the question like this. 01font00My pronunciation is not good, so 01b
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01cite10Kooyeen12cite10I have a question. How to pronounce "plectroclinth" with a Scottish accent?12br
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10I would like to see the answers to that one...02br
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0 Ok, I see you don't want to say it is Engrish, but you know it is.02br
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00It's just that I see those questions everywhere (this forum is full of those, for example), and I started to wonder... would that be ok or not? It's like "grammer", I saw it so many times that now I think "grammer" is actually better than "grammar", LOL.02br
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00So I'd bette
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0Or is it fritalian?02br
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0 What the... 02br
00I don't think I understand you this time...0-
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0E.g.02br
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00"How to do X?"02br
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00"Comment faire l'amour pour la première fois?"02br
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00"Come fare l'amore per la prima volta?"02br
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00(Or should that be franglese?)02br
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