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 #2 (permalink) Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:00 am why is have you turned skinny wrong? |
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Incidentally, why is have you turned skinny wrong?
Isn't it the same as have you become skinny ? |
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| #3 (permalink) Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:04 am why is have you turned skinny wrong? |
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You cannot 'turn' skinny because 'turn' is too fast a process-- in usual use, of course (just to prebut the person who finds the first exception). Anyway, the very standard phrase is 'Have/Haven't you lost weight?'.
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| #4 (permalink) Sun Apr 11, 2010 0:28 am why is have you turned skinny wrong? |
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| Mister Micawber wrote: |
You cannot 'turn' skinny because 'turn' is too fast a process-- in usual use, of course (just to prebut the person who finds the first exception). Anyway, the very standard phrase is 'Have/Haven't you lost weight?'.
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What is prebut?
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| #5 (permalink) Thu Feb 10, 2011 16:08 pm why is have you turned skinny wrong? |
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Hello Gheon,
In Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary I didn't find the verb: to prebut
But I found a noun prebuttal /C;U/ = (inf)(pol)a statement saying or proving that a criticism is false or unfair before the criticism has actually has been made.
Me also I am curious what can mean.
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