<p>A freelance translator. Male, born in the 1970s.</p>
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<p>Why 'Copper Kettle'? Because <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_Kettle" rel="nofollow noreferrer">it's a great song</a>, especially the version sung by Joan Baez.<br />
Why 'Cowper'? Because <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cowper" rel="nofollow noreferrer">William Cowper</a>.<br />
<a href="http://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/83097/meaning-of-to-wage-the-warfare-watch-and-pray-show-who-are-pleasing-in-his-s#comment160523_83097">A user quipped</a> in a comment to my post about Cowper's poem that I should rename myself CowperKettle from CopperKettle, and I did.</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.multitran.ru/c/m.exe?a=116&amp;&amp;UserName=CopperKettle" rel="nofollow noreferrer">My Multitran account</a></li>
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<p>Useful links:<br />
<a href="http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help">StackExchange Markdown help</a><br />
<a href="http://corpus.byu.edu/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Corpora</a></p>
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<p>&quot;Nothing more true than not to trust your senses; And yet what are your other evidences?&quot;</p>
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<p>To read up:</p>
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<li>True Light Verb vs. Vague Action Verb</li>
<li><a href="http://ell.stackexchange.com/tags/aspect/info">aspect</a> - In English the perfect construction does not express perfective aspect; that is expressed by the simple past form.  The name perfect for the <em>HAVE</em>+past participle construction is a misleading historical accident.</li>
<li>PEU 90 - be with auxiliary do (CGEL: &quot;lexical <em>be</em>&quot;; Quirk et al - ? )</li>
<li>Actionsart</li>
<li>NICE auxiliaries criteria: negation, inversion, emphasis and code.</li>
<li>Quirk et al. p.839 - optative mood</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veridicality" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Veridicality</a></li>
<li>I doubt this (all) <a href="http://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/38977/more-vs-the-more-i-doubt-this-the-more-because">the more</a> - <strong>the</strong> <a href="http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/3944/what-are-sentences-like-the-longer-x-the-more-y-called-and-can-they-be-used-i/3945#3945">as modifier or adverb</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/46364/waterway-flowed-sombre-should-j-conrad-have-used-an-adverb-not-an-adjective">Depictive secondary predicates vs. Depictive adjuncts</a></li>
<li>A rectangle is not a circle --&gt; It is not a rectangle a circle (dislocation, extraposition).</li>
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