dennis@home wrote:


"Mike Tomlinson" wrote in message
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En el artÃ*culo , Frank
Erskine escribió:

...and "orient" rather than "orientate".

Not so sure about that one.

"When he emerged from the train station, it took him a moment to orient
himself."

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The first sounds better to me.

better than "it took him a moment to become oriental"?
Er

better than "it took him a moment to become Oriental"?

The capital is important as in "to orient oneself towards the Orient, is
to become an Oriental' blah blah.

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