About the English language

English is not so bad as I supposed :) Now I even like some English-specific things. For example, my last sympathy is emphatic future simple. Instead of "I love you" you can say "I do love you". Sounds excellent, in some context :) Also, the authors of New Oxford American Dictionary fixed some new funny words: unfriend - to delete somebody from social network's friend list intexticated ...

English

Начнем, пожалуй, с пары жизнеутверждающих выражений, который переводятся на русский как "Отвали"))) Помимо всем известного FUCK OFF есть еще ряд чудесных выражений, наиболее распространенные из которых: Bugger off! (Bug off!) Sod off! Piss off! И еще по поводу глагола PISS. I'm pissed - Я сильно пьян. He's pissed off - Он очень сильно не в духе. Ну прям очень-очень. зае... Достали человека))...

could it be my vocation?))

... к мысли, что мне нравится просветительский элемент этой работы и хотелось бы как-то распространить его на ЖЖ))) Сегодня перечитывала маленькую книжицу от издательства путеводителей Lonely Planet под названием "British Language & Culture", и прям захотелось активно делиться с людьми какими-то тонкостями языка, идиомами, отличиями британского и американского языка, и т.д. Вообще я за то, чтобы как ...

why does japanese doesn't like english?

I think they doesn't like it because i rarely find Japanese in international community website such as LJ, FB, and DA. Is it just because they have their own community and doesn't need the international ones? or because they hate English? You know, I'm just curious, because I think Japanese is a smart nation. They can build robots and all. Surely they can learn language like English?

[LINK] Window on Eurasia on Belarus

...verifiable bits therein. Below are two. First, Goble tackles the question of Belarus' name. In the English language after fall of the Soviet Union, the country names "the Ukraine" and "Byelorussia" changes, "...it seems, non-government experts have decided that the old Russian-language names won't change on grounds of their normativeness. Second, ...

Káťa on a hot tin roof, or, At the Copacabanova

... it one of Nuphy's language department colleagues was present, a ...of comprehending sung texts in any language. The cast had "definitely done ... a fight with the Czech language every time she opened her ... wrote for her.) Speaking of language competence, here's a rundown ... enough stop the flow of English-language condescension. ("Zey hev a ... myself twice, the woman said "English please!" Turns out she's ...

DFW violently annoys me once more

Over at Language Log - and I warn you, I can feel my anger levels rising already ... As, I hope, a thoughful and interested user of English, I am always on the lookout for ways to improve...test which tells me I don't recognise a good English sentence when I hear one can FUCK OFF. Anyway,... (these are lifted from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary of English Usage), let's enjoy: "he and Bikki were extremely ...

[SINGLE] school food punishment - light prayer

...light prayer RELEASE DATE December 02th, 2009 LANGUAGE Japanese ARTIST Female GENRE Rock, Pop,... 03 sea-through communication-sung in English with symphony- This is school food ... great! sea-through communication-sung in English with symphony- is a little Engrishy but... but it's nice to hear it in English. ★ DOWNLOAD SINGLE @ 4SHARED

[movie] Thirst

Thirst 2009 Korean Movie with English Soft Subs Also Known As: 박쥐 (Bak-jwi) Genre: Drama | Melodrama Director: Park Chan Wook (박찬욱) Starring: Song Kang Ho (송강호), Kim Ok Bin (김옥빈), Kim Hae Sook (김해숙), Sin Ha Gyoon (신하균) Purchase: yesasia. Synopsis: Beloved and devoted priest from a small town volunteers for a medical experiment which fails and turns him into a vampire. ...

...the ancients; apparently the word was used, or misused, of various substances, linen, cotton, and silk, but it denoted properly a kind of flax, and hence is appropriately translated in the English Bible ‘fine linen’. 2. A name formerly given to filamentous fungoid growths of different kinds, which are now more accurately classified. 3. In Zoology: The tuft of fine silky filaments by which molluscs...