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#2 (permalink) Fri Sep 12, 2008 8:30 am What is the difference between difficult and different? |
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Hi,
The reason is that a comparison is being made between France and England at breakfast time. That's why it says: 'here (France) it is quite different (from England).
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#3 (permalink) Fri May 08, 2009 14:55 pm What is the difference between difficult and different? |
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Hi, I wonder why it couldn't be: "But here it is quite difficult (to eat big breakfast), as they only have a bread roll and tea or coffee (so not too much components to make big breakfast)."
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#4 (permalink) Fri May 08, 2009 15:17 pm What is the difference between difficult and different? |
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Because in context with the question asked before different makes more sense than difficult. The big breakfast at home is mentioned already and the writer of the postcard wants to make the receiver aware of the difference. _________________ No comment |
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#5 (permalink) Fri May 08, 2009 15:39 pm What is the difference between difficult and different? |
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So maybe I'm thinking too much Polish, because such a sentence in Polish is fine. Actually, both are okey and sensible.
At home I can eat big breakfast, because I have a lot of componenst to do it. In France it was different. At the hotel in Paris I found it difficult to eat big breakfast, because there was only a bread roll so there wasn't any posibility to eat like at home. |
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