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Languages

Ask questions or just talk about different languages. Since BrainKing is an international game site supporting many languages, this board can be kind of useful.

Since we will be dealing with pronunciation of words rather than their spelling, I think it's useful to have a link to The sounds of English and the International Phonetic Alphabet.

To see translations of some frequently used phrases and sentences in other languages see Languages

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3. Octubre 2009, 04:32:49

fukuhara

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Asunto: Set in or Take Place?

King Reza:
As far as your original example says, "set in" is used as based in "the history and culture" and takes place suggests it is currently ongoing.
take place is often used as "happen" or "occur" and the its usage is limited to intransitive verb phrases. That means someone cannot "take place" anything. While someone can "make it happen".
SET IN is used as transitive phrase so someone can "set in" anything. As movie itself cannot take transitive verb form passive form can be used here.

6. Octubre 2009, 04:54:04

Walter Montego

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Asunto: Re: Set in or Take Place?

fukuhara: I've heard opposite usage.

I've read of a movie as being set in modern day China and conversely as taking place during the time when Genghis Khan was making trouble.