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From: Einde O'Callaghan <eindeoc@freenet.de>
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Subject: Re: What's wrong with this sentence?
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 11:10:32 +0200
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Ray Davies wrote:
> Read it on a bag of Chifles platain chips, it says:
>
> "The platain is a fruit that is imported from the same tropical countries
> as bananas"
>
> I don't know why exactly but this sentence makes my brain hurt everytime I
> read it, does anybody see anything weird with it? English in not my first
> language (third actually) so that might explain it.
Other than that the fruit is actually called "plantain", I can see
nothing really wrong.
Perhaps you are disturbed by the fat that "plantain" is singular and
"bananas" is plural. "The plantain" and "the banana" would probably be
better stylistically.
Einde O'Callaghan
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