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  • English is Weird: Starting With the Word 'UP'

    02/24/2018 9:45:32 AM PST · by V K Lee · 59 replies
    https://moravia.com ^ | 3/1/18 | Lee Densmer
    English is weird, hard to learn, and often hard to translate. An article on this showed UP in my email inbox this week, and I thought I’d share it with you. While I didn't dream it UP, I found out, after looking it UP on the web, that the article's content might originally come from here. I enjoyed reading UP on it, and I made UP the parallel between the uses of the word and localization. (It gets worse from here). UP can be a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, and preposition. This two-letter word in English has more meanings than...