• Skua@kbin.earth
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    4 days ago

    At least in my dialect of English and some others I know, the noun and adjective have the stress on the first syllable while the verb has it on the second

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      4 days ago

      Thank you. It was Greek to me, but since English is a French dialect sprinkled with Germanic Romantic Latin seasonings, and acrimonious acronyms and euphemisms, I got confused. Somehow.

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        Hey now, it’s a German dialect with French Romantic seasonings! Much clearer, of course