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#16 (permalink) Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:24 am 'depend on' vs. 'depend from'

It must've been ATTILA!

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#17 (permalink) Thu Apr 20, 2006 11:10 am 'depend on' vs. 'depend from'

Jamie (K) wrote:

spencer wrote:

This is kind of weird, but in my language the words depend and hang are the same.

I think it's the same way in French, Spanish and some other European languages. I don't think it's the Hungarians who did that damage. Very Happy

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Hey, don't you go trying to shift the blame now! Smile

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In French and Spanish, 'd?pendre' and 'depender' (respectively) rather mean 'to depend', whereas 'to hang' is translated as 'pendre' and 'colgar' (or the less commonly used 'pender'). Yet curiously, they do translate 'to unhang' as 'd?pendre/descolgar' (Fr./Sp.). So your supposition is half true after all -- only for the French word, that is (well, it makes it only about a quarter true, if my maths is right!).

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#18 (permalink) Thu Apr 20, 2006 12:30 pm 'depend on' vs. 'depend from'

YES! I told you! We did it!

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#19 (permalink) Fri Apr 21, 2006 13:42 pm 'depend on' vs. 'depend from'

Nicole wrote:

Good evening. I remember being taught that it should read 'depend on'. However, I often hear 'depend from' and if you look this up in Google you will get tens of thousands fo pages containing this combination. So, what is correct, depend on or depend from or both?

Have a Good Friday.
Nicole

IMHO Nicole, literary norm is "depend on".Yes,you may hear "depend from" but it's only colloquial level.

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