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24-10-2006, 02:21 PM
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| Need more furnitures... Hi, i'm living on Ma wan (Park Island) since one month. I'm looking for someone who leave hongkong soon, and could possibly sells his furnitures... (i'm looking for a bed, shells, and a piece of furniture for th TV...) ps : And does someone know a club not too far from my place where learn aïkido? thx!  |
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#3
24-10-2006, 05:55 PM
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| Zechoupie - my brother lives on Park Island, but needs to move very soon and sell most of his furniture (he's moving into a boat-house and can't accomodate the stuff he has). I've sent you a PM. Let me know via PM if you're interested. |
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#4
24-10-2006, 06:54 PM
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| Hi zechoupie I'm not being picky just like to help people with their English. Please don't take offence. This is a really common mistake. You don't need more "furnitures", you need more "furniture". Furniture is like rice, water, concrete, ice and bread in that it is not countable. You might need more pieces of furniture, but you don't need more furnitures. Basically I don't think the word "furnitures" exists in the English language, just like we never say "waters" or "rices". Well actually we do say "waters" sometimes but that's in a different context, we're not really using a plural in that case it's more about using flowery language in quaint situations such as "my waters broke" or "a bridge over trouble waters" (that last one is a particular expression). There might be a very contrived exception to this rule about never saying "furnitures" or "rices" or generally the plural of any uncountable concrete noun. But if there is such an exception, it is very rare. I notice this confusion between singular and plural is one of the ways I can pick up a non-native English speaker, even if their English is really, really, really good! A good example to think of is "loaves of bread". The bread is not countable, but the loaves (plural of loaf) are. So the word "loaf" gets pluralised into "loaves" but the bread stays as bread. By the way, if you really want to show off, instead of using the words countable and uncountable, you can use discrete and continuous respectively. They mean the same things (things is plural because there are two meanings, the one for discrete/countable and the one for continuous/uncountable). By the way don't get the word discrete confused with the word discreet (they are both pronounced exactly the same). Discrete means separate and countable, discreet is an adjective usually applied to people meaning something like "wisely self-restrained, unobtrusive, quiet, careful, circumspect, able to keep things secret or private". Actually it's quite a hard word to define. Ok, enough of teacher mode... Last edited by Andrew W Scott; 24-10-2006 at 06:58 PM. |
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#5
24-10-2006, 07:25 PM
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| Ok thanks for the lesson mister teacher, i will try to remember, but my english is already really crappy, not only when I write even when I speak, and I only speak all day long english with some chinese people who have an english as bad as mine, so i'm sorry.... |
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#7
24-10-2006, 09:38 PM
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| I have some nearly new furniture at home (TV shelf, and sofa), if u wana check it, pm me, thank you |
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#9
25-10-2006, 01:51 AM
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Anyway, sorry I don't have any furniture to sell you  |
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