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Re: Weekly Vocab #5.3 (original)

From:Carsten Becker <carbeck@...>
Date:Saturday, September 16, 2006, 14:49
Sorry for my English ...

On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:51:28 -0000, caeruleancentaur
<caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:

>This bread is mouldy, I urgently need to buy a new one (sic).
What's wrong with that? I meant a new loaf of bread. I guess one cannot say it like that in English?
>Butter tastes very well (sic) on a fresh raisin roll.
OK, that has to be _good_, sorry, _to taste_ is a verb of perception which of course requires an adjective not an adverb. I blame this on German: we don't make any distinction between adjectives and adverbs, so both is _gut_ in this case. C.

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