:: : : A perfect illustration of how " not " to approach a foreign language . " Est�pido " may be slightly stronger than the English word " stupid ", but it's no stronger, adjectivally, than " imbecile " or " moronic ", nor is it ever as strong or vulgar as " retarded ".
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In Chapter 63 of Theodore Dreiser's classic novel, " An American Tragedy, " he references the spectre adjectivally, saying, " And at one point it was that a wier-wier, one of the solitary water-birds of this region, uttered its ouphe and "'barghest "'cry, flying from somewhere near into some darker recess within the woods.
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Fairies have their historical origin in the conflation of Celtic ( Breton, Welsh ) traditions in the Middle French medieval romances . " Fairie " was in origin used adjectivally, meaning " enchanted " ( as in " fairie knight ", " fairie queene " ), but was used as a name for " enchanted " creatures from as early as the Late Middle English period.
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As I've pointed out on the discussion and above, the application of a hyphen in this case is based on falsely identifying the syntactic components of the topic title and trying to assign it a structure in which " acquisition " is the head of a compound noun with " second language " acting adjectivally as a unit within that greater compound | _ { _ [ _ adj _ [ _ noun _ ] _ ] _-adj-_ } _ > _ noun _ |.
