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Choose the Adjective
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nhatminh0904
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Choose the Adjective
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Please tell me What word is right:
She had a toothache.She was unpleased/ unpleasant
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4 Apr 2019
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douglas
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She was not pleased. It was unpleasant. |
4 Apr 2019
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RabbitWho
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displeased is a word.. I�ve never heard unpleased.. I�d say they are both wrong! |
4 Apr 2019
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L. habach
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"unpleasant" exists in the Cambridge dictionary.
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4 Apr 2019
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Aisha77
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Unpleased seems to be a british word. Under my point of view, this one is correct... |
4 Apr 2019
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almaz
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FWIW, the earliest citation in the OED for unpleased is from a religious tract of 1475, while the most recent is from the Hindustani Times (2013). More pertinently, though, the dictionary editors give it a very low frequency score of 2 (words which "are almost exclusively ... not part of normal discourse and would be unknown to most people"). |
5 Apr 2019
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Aisha77
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So, better not to use it then! Thanks so much Almaz! Have a great weekend! Aisha ;) EDIT:
I have seen many news where they use the word (nowadays news):
Well, there are many more from magazines that I don�t know if they are reliable, but these papers are important and representative in the UK and, as I said, are related to current events...
I wonder if this type of "unusual words in common speech" are more used or common in cultured language... Could someone clear that up for me, please? Thanks in advance! :)
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5 Apr 2019
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almaz
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It has nothing to do with "cultured" language (whatever that�s supposed to mean � considering that the only culture the Daily Express espouses is one of Little Englander bigotry and racism). It�s simply much less common than �displeased� in any register.
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5 Apr 2019
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spradley03
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My mother was unpleased (archaic English - we never use this anymore) with my actions.
My mother was displeased with my actions. (this is moreso used instead of unpleased)
I had a unpleasant toothache, I was in pain. (adjective here) I would never say I was unpleasant - unless I was being rude. |
5 Apr 2019
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Aisha77
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Fair enough! Btw, Almaz, when I was saying "cultured language" I wasn�t talking or thinking about ideologies at all. I don�t know what that newspaper promotes. I wanted to mean a language used in "newspapers", "news media", "conferences", "lectures" and so on.... At least in Spanish there are levels of language (slang, colloquial and cultured) and it is even studied. What I wanted to know was if in English language would happen the same. Thanks so much for the responses and for taking your time to answer my doubts. |
5 Apr 2019
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