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by mdp20214 hours ago |

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I'm not sure why, but sentence feels forced and unnatural, and as a result a bit unconvincing. My intuition is to insert an "and" at the end of those three options and then it feels like you can't drop the "a", i.e. "married, tall, and a doctor in medicine". I mean, maybe you can but the sentence feels odd to me.

And the weird part is that you can put those three properties in any order, and you would not place an "a" in front of the other two.

by mdp20211 hours ago|

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Do you also feel «forced and unnatural»

"Il est médecin // il est un médecin // il est le médecin"? "Él es médico // él es un médico" // él es il médico"?

Are you feeling through memory or through logic? Why would it work in some languages but not other related ones?

What about "He is Commander, General, Loyal Servant, Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife"?

> you would not place an "a" in front

That is because 'tall' and 'married' are adjectives. So: "a tall fellow, a married man, and a doctor in medicine".

by parasti3 hours ago|

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Similarities between languages is a much more intuitive approach for non-English speakers. This comment just explains an English idiom in terms of English idioms.

by mdp20213 hours ago|

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> Similarities between languages

If they are substantial instead of superficial.

> This comment just explains ... idiom in terms of

the logic behind it. Which is common to many languages.