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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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If a neighbor comes over to your place to watch TV (eg his TV is broken), would you call it "borrowing"?
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No, the idea of "borrowing" suggests he took it with him and used it somewhere else, or at least used something in a way that meant you couldn't use it yourself. ) but it's not the natural way to say it, unless you were deliberately playing with words.
- No, the idea of "borrowing" suggests he took it with him and used it somewhere else, or at least used something in a way that meant you couldn't use it yourself.
- ) but it's not the natural way to say it, unless you were deliberately playing with words.
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No, the idea of "borrowing" suggests he took it with him and used it somewhere else, or at least used something in a way that meant you couldn't use it yourself.
There are ways you could say it using "borrow" to be sort of playful in your word choice (Hey, can I borrow some of your cable?) but it's not the natural way to say it, unless you were deliberately playing with words.
There are ways you could say it using "borrow" to be sort of playful in your word choice (Hey, can I borrow some of your cable?) but it's not the natural way to say it, unless you were deliberately playing with words.
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Thanks. So there's no single accurate word for such a context, right?
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