linguoboy wrote:Does your dialect not allow, "When I cook Chinese" or "When I cook Indian"? Can you "eat Chinese" or "order Indian"?
It does; I'm not sure why "cook Hungarian" sounded odd to me at the time. Perhaps because Chinese, Indian, Greek, and Italian are the most common types of cuisine that are ordered/cooked where we would just say the adjective.
tiuwiu wrote:Correct because it's so hot outside. I just want to lay in the shadows and do nothing (expect of for drinking something cold).
I think it sounds better to say "shadows". Using the singular gives the impression there's maybe one massive shadow, or that you're thinking of a specific shadow. Also, "except for" is, as far as I'm aware, the only phrase that native speakers use. I found a thread at
UsingEnglish.com where someone asked about using "except of", and all the responses basically confirmed that we don't use it as a synonym to "except".
france-eesti wrote:The person after me is celebrating the Music Day tonight
We generally don't use an article before a proper noun, and a special day that has a title would be considered a proper noun. We would use an article if you're talking about something specific that is happening on that special day: are you going to the Music Day concert tonight?
And, no I'm not celebrating Music Day tonight because, unfortunately, Music Day isn't a thing here in Canada (or at least in Toronto).
At what temperature does it start to become too hot for the person after me? For example, anything above 35 C is too hot for me.