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I live about 3 hours north of NYC in the rolling hills between Albany NY and Pittsfield MA. I am married with one adult son. I like to cook and ride my bicycle, walk my dogs, listen to jazz. My mother's family is from Italia. Her paternal grandfather is from Gragnano, near Napoli. Her maternal grandfather is from Baucina near Palermo in Sicily. I went there in 1979 while I was hitchhiking across Italy. I am now an Italian citizen and visit italy at least once a year.
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Claudia Lanzarote
Italian
Nov 11, 2020
Grazie Jim spero di vederti presto, un grande saluto!
Claudia Lanzarote
Italian
Oct 27, 2020
È stato un vero piacere parlare con Jim dopo tanto tempo, spero di rivederlo presto! :)
Elisa G.
Italian
Sep 4, 2020
La mia prima conversazione con Jim è stata davvero piacevole e interessante! Grazie!
Alessandra
Italian
Aug 11, 2020
Grazie! È stato un piacere rivederti!! Aspetto le foto del cane! :D
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    Acting virtuously keeps us connected to our own wisdom, keeps us in contact with our own wisdom, reminds us of our wisdom. Any of those make sense to you?
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    May 19, 2021
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    So I went for it and found the solution myself OR I took chance and found my own solution OR I took a (crack,swing) at it myself and found a solution. If you just mention "I got mad" people won't think too much about it. It could still be humorous. It depends on the other sentences around it.
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    July 26, 2019
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  • Answered
    Roughly speaking, yes. "I like it better when you're blond" means "I prefer when you have blond hair." The second "I like you better when you're blond" means "I prefer (your personality/behavior/ideas) when you have blond hair." The first is clearly only about the hair. The second could be saying something deeper, but not always.
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    March 22, 2019
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    No those words are there for emphasis. The literal meaning would not change, but the emphasis might amount to a subtext of "He has enough time to do this." and that would be lost by removing those words.
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    August 25, 2018
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  • Answered
    You are correct. "Did you have any idea that John was married?" means "Did you know that John was married?" "Did you have any idea..." is more emphatic while "Did you know..." is a simple question.
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    August 25, 2018
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  • Answered
    This is a sentence structure we accept to mean This activity now is referenced by this name. Here is another example: "In what became known as the Freeport Doctrine, Stephen A. Douglas argued that..." It's similar to how we say a character was IN a movie or IN a book. We could say that IN the Freeport doctrine, Stephen A.Douglas argued that..." except the "became known as" part adds the information that at the time the activity took place it was not known by that name. It became known as...
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    May 27, 2018
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    Both are correct and in conversation people would get just about the same meaning from both. One uses the verb to go and so emphasizes the going, The other uses the verb to be and so emphasizes the experience of being in Paris. I would assume that the questioner is interested in your experience of Paris unless he she follows up with questions about transportation. "Did you take the train?" "Was it convenient?" Most people are not just about to go to Paris, so this meaning is not common. 나중에 봐.
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    May 27, 2018
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    Actually the subject in the second sentence is "Neither" and the subject in the third sentence is "All." This would change Dawn's answer for #2 to "singular" Neither knows... Rice is an uncountable noun https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/grammar/countable-nouns that's why it is treated as singular. I didn't know that before now.
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    May 27, 2018
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    No corrections needed. You've got it. Be aware that "Those who have" can also be said as "Those that have." Google "those that" for examples

    That & Those

    "Those" is the plural of "That".

    Those who = people who

    Don't say !!!: Those who has ✗ ✗

    Say : Those who have ✓✓✓
    """That""' is used to refer to a person or thing that is not near you
    •Is that my pen you’ve got there?
    •That’s Hossam's house across the road.
    •Look at those beautiful Brazilian girls in that car.
    •Our tomatoes never get as big as that.
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    May 26, 2018
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  • Answered
    "some people use it to store honey or jam."
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    May 24, 2018
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