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Saturday, April 10, 2010

"Any Other Date"

--- Dates: the earlier, the later, and the one(s) in between

From
http://www.wordreference.com/enit/date


---- THANKS to Kramer for his comments on natural English -- always welcomed and appreciated. And this is not redundant. It is well-Anglo-Normanly meant.

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Note that in Italian, we have as per above link:

"date", noun (of the month): data -- feminine rather than neuter

"Today's date is April 10."

"La data di oggi è il 10 di aprile".


But then:

"I will meet you again at a later date."

"Ti incontrerò di nuovo un altro giorno"

Which makes perfect sense. But one wonders: why 'data' would sound 'harsh' under the circumstances, and even changing 'un altro' to the feminine for 'data'.

Anyway.

"When are we having the date-jam?"

"Never"

"You said 'every other day'".

"Exactly."

"But that's tomorrow."

"No. It's not", etc.

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