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Collocating the adjective "complicate".


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Collocating the adjective "complicate". Sun Jun 01, 2008 2:16 am  Collocating the adjective "complicate".		  
Which nouns would you say collocate with "complicate" (the adjective)?

e.g.

adj. + noun

complicate structure
complicate pattern
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Collocating the adjective "complicate". Sun Jun 01, 2008 2:52 am  Collocating the adjective "complicate".		  
How about,

complicate formation, architecture, compages, configuration, conformation, constitution, contexture, makeup, mechanism, rock fabric, structural fabric, etc.

But maybe I committed some morphological errors again.
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Collocating the adjective "complicate". Sun Jun 01, 2008 3:05 am  Collocating the adjective "complicate".		  
Haihao wrote:
But maybe I committed some morphological errors again.

If you did, I'm sure Jamie and Mr P will put you straight on it. Laughing

Here's a few more:

a complicate fracture
a complicate-mucronate apex
a complicate stress distribution
a complicate piece
a complicate organism
a complicate mixture
a complicate maze
a complicate study
a complicate procedure
a complicate formalism
a complicate metre
a complicate task
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Collocating the adjective "complicate". Sun Jun 01, 2008 3:12 am  Collocating the adjective "complicate".		  
Molly wrote:
If you did, I'm sure Jamie and Mr P will put you straight on it. Laughing

I don't hate it! Very Happy
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Collocating the adjective "complicate". Mon Jun 02, 2008 7:42 am  Collocating the adjective "complicate".		  
Alas! How lonely it is down here with this non-native duo! I would greatly appreciate it if some academic expert in linguistics with his/her majority logic on English could condescendingly pass another judgement on this "adj. complicate" issue here.

When the 'in future' case ended up being condemned as Chinglish or telegraphese or psychobabble, I was stunned to such an extent that I tended to think we'd better subject to some deemster to learn English in his Disneyland otherwise we would be expelled without mercy to suck non-native or minority native ignorance. Sad
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Collocating the adjective "complicate". Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:44 am  Collocating the adjective "complicate".		  
Strange thing is, the natives have all become experts on "complicate (adj.) over just a few days but they're not able to comment on or provide collocation of the word.
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Collocating the adjective "complicate". Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:48 am  Collocating the adjective "complicate".		  
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When the 'in future' case ended up being condemned as Chinglish or telegraphese or psychobabble, I was stunned to such an extent that I tended to think we'd better subject to some deemster to learn English in his Disneyland otherwise we would be expelled without mercy to suck non-native or minority native ignorance.

As I've said many times, most of the comments here are sociolect, dialect, or idiolect-centric, so to speak. But then, what can we expect? Many native speakers really do only have experience in and knowledge of a limiting use of English.
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Collocating the adjective "complicate". Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:44 am  Collocating the adjective "complicate".		  
Molly wrote:
As I've said many times, most of the comments here are sociolect, dialect, or idiolect-centric, so to speak. But then, what can we expect? Many native speakers really do only have experience in and knowledge of a limiting use of English.

Precisely. So nobody could possibly pass judgements or play god onto others without self-awareness of those sociolect, dialect, or idiolect-centric but with a loud voice: "we are the natives. Our English is real, yours false; We are clever boys/girls, you fools."
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Collocating the adjective "complicate". Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:55 am  Collocating the adjective "complicate".		  
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"we are the natives. Our English is real, yours false; We are clever boys/girls, you fools."

You've got it in one. Not only that but, talking about most of the native-speakers here, "We British and Americans are the natives. Our English is real, yours, even if it's Nigerian, Australian, Indian, Jamaican, or whatever, is false; We are clever boys/girls, you fools." And "We are extremely vocal when you nonnatives make an error in judgement, but keep mum, play it down, or rally round, when one of ours makes the same error.

Kids, eh? Wink
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Collocating the adjective "complicate". Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:11 am  Collocating the adjective "complicate".		  
Molly wrote:
You've got it in one. Not only that but, talking about most of the native-speakers here, "We British and Americans are the natives. Our English is real, yours, even if it's Nigerian, Australian, Indian, Jamaican, or whatever, is false; We are clever boys/girls, you fools." And "We are extremely vocal when you nonnatives make an error in judgement, but keep mum, play it down, or rally round, when one of ours makes the same error.

Kids, eh? Wink

Just to add a two cents to what you said, they'd better bear in their clever brains as well that there is also Irish and "Finnegans Wake" is not psychobabble.
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Collocating the adjective "complicate". Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:27 am  Collocating the adjective "complicate".		  
Hiberno-English/Anglo-Irish/Irish English, yet to be discussed on this forum?
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Collocating the adjective "complicate". Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:29 am  Collocating the adjective "complicate".		  
Molly wrote:
Hiberno-English/Anglo-Irish/Irish English, yet to be discussed on this forum?

And Chinglish. Very Happy Very Happy
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Collocating the adjective "complicate". Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:30 am  Collocating the adjective "complicate".		  
Sorry but... complicate is also an adjective? :O:O:O
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Collocating the adjective "complicate". Mon Jun 02, 2008 12:08 pm  Collocating the adjective "complicate".		  
Haihao wrote:
Molly wrote:
Hiberno-English/Anglo-Irish/Irish English, yet to be discussed on this forum?

And Chinglish. Very Happy Very Happy

Indeed, but isn't the term seen as pejorative?
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Collocating the adjective "complicate". Mon Jun 02, 2008 12:10 pm  Collocating the adjective "complicate".		  
nessie wrote:
Sorry but... complicate is also an adjective? :O:O:O

Did you miss this thread, Nessie?

http://www.english-test.net/forum/ftopic25203.html
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