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Hi, can I ask you if the following sentences sound natural? 🙂
(1) The subway will be running until midnight.
(2) The subway will be operated until midnight.
Hi, can I ask you if the following sentences sound natural? 🙂
(1) The subway will be running until midnight.
(2) The subway will be operated until midnight.
(1) The subway will be running until midnight.
(2) The subway will be operated until midnight.
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@lller
The first one is fine
The subway operates until midnight
The subway is open until midnight
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@lller
The first one is fine
The subway operates until midnight
The subway is open until midnight
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@isthmus_x Ah, I see! Not ‘is operated’, but ‘operates’!
The reason why I thought of ‘the subway is operated’ is that the subway is operated by some personnel. Doesn’t this make sense? 🤔
The reason why I thought of ‘the subway is operated’ is that the subway is operated by some personnel. Doesn’t this make sense? 🤔
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@lller
Yes, but that is not what you are trying to say. You are trying to tell us what the subway does, not the people who run the subway.
A large public service like a subway is treated as being something in between a machine and a living being, when we talk about it. It is so intrinsic to the life of the city that we allow it a certain amount of what is called ontological autonomy – in other words, we treat it as if it is alive.
You will notice that people talk this way about a lot of different types of public utilities. In America, especially, the highway is spoken of as if it was a family member.
So, we are not going to degrade the subway by referring to the people who operate it. We are going to say that the subway operates
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@isthmus_x I see. Thank you so much for your detailed answer!
The reason why I thought that way is that that’s the way of thinking in the Korean language. I try to think differently when I speak English, but it is still ingrained in me.
Thanks to your answer, I think I am getting closer to the proper way of thinking in English! 👍
The reason why I thought that way is that that’s the way of thinking in the Korean language. I try to think differently when I speak English, but it is still ingrained in me.
Thanks to your answer, I think I am getting closer to the proper way of thinking in English! 👍
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I know, I get it. It's these differences in how we treat things, that is one of the most interesting things about different languages to me.
We have an expression in the Maori language here in New Zealand – He mauri tau. "A slow soul" - to do things in a relaxed way, without panic. This is the quality we need to absorb the differences in culture and language.
It all just takes time
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@isthmus_x Yes, you’re absolutely right. I am also enjoy learning the differences between languages, or more fundamentally the differences between cultures or their ways of thinking which underlie their languages. 😌
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