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Just for Spanish teachers
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cunliffe
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RIP lest, you were very useful. I might start a society: Let�s have lest back. 
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17 Apr 2019
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Aisha77
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Yes Bruce, you nailed it, it�s really complicated to translate literally, Ough!! I go on with my usual English hehhe!! 
(I knew that was not English at all, just having fun translating kind of literally, that�s why it sounds crazy, doesn�t it??) |
17 Apr 2019
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spinney
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I�m with Lynne about lest. I love that word and, to my mind, it is underused, underappreciated and undervalued. Wonderful word and structure. |
17 Apr 2019
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cunliffe
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Thank you, Dale! �In case� normally sorts it, but it�s not quite the same... Whence and thence are other words we could do with having back. I might go around, using them! Imagine that! |
18 Apr 2019
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Aisha77
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Dale had used many times the word "hence", about myself I did never heard or seen the other two!... In Spanish, there are many words that I love from when I was little and they justs are not in use any longer: alcoba, párvulo, enagua, pololos... |
18 Apr 2019
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cunliffe
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Yes, we still use �hence�. �Whither� and �thither� should come back, too. The problem is, the minute you think of using them, you have to go for the whole caboodle. �Whither goest thou, Tommy? No, be seated! Thou mayst not go to the privy! Get thee gone back to thy seat, thou naughty minstrel, lest I clout thy lug�. |
18 Apr 2019
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Aisha77
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 MG! I have to study the Bible!
EDIT: Or maybe just Shakespeare? MORE EDIT: I will learn your "dialogue" Sound good! Yet thou wilst regret it, and thy repentance wilt be late... 
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18 Apr 2019
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