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No clue what you're saying. "X begins with Y" nearly always means the same thing as "the word X begin with Y", or possibly "the name X begins with Y" (in absenc
by zero-sharp 2y ago
No clue what you're saying. "X begins with Y" nearly always means the same thing as "the word X begin with Y", or possibly "the name X begins with Y" (in absence of other clarifying language or context). Obviously if X is an event or is referring to a period of time, that's a different story. And there might be some pedantic distinction between "X" and "the word X", but applying that interpretation to every day language is just ... bad.
- astrange 2y agoI think this sort of thing is interesting because this is a feature of everyday English, but not necessarily one in other languages, so translations might have to clarify it. Similar features include relevance conditionals aka biscuit conditionals: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=24497 https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=24497 and ambient "it": https://www.thoughtco.com/dummy-it-in-grammar-1690414 https://www.thoughtco.com/dummy-it-in-grammar-1690414 Btw, I guess countries themselves temporally begin with a creation event, but spatially begin at a location.