jeremyintheczechrep

Thanks, #1. Perhaps I can juggle the font size of the Chinese text so that the texts take up about the same amount of space.

If you translate 50 pages of English text into Chinese, approximately how many pages of Chinese text (of the same font size) will you get?...

I posted the quote because of the linguistic quirk - which only works in reported speech. Did the man actually say:...

I also saw the German wiki page and saw that the word originally had a military meaning. The guy giving the talk gave the example of...

I was in Germany recently giving a presentation. Another presenter gave a workshop on Schlagfertigkeit and we struggled to come up an...

The head of Eurostar said he couldn't be clearer about when normal service will be resumed. Interesting phrase - for those who find such...

Rhymes with I when spoken in English and me when spoken in Czech.

You could also consider Bordeaux. The Atlantic coast is lovely.

One of the most important skills for any teacher is to be able to offer COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT to the student/s. To be able to converse with...

Or perhaps someone at the BBC (which I think now owns LP) read this thread and saw etcap's simple solution.

Even more intellectual than a singing mouse that may, or may not, be saying 'paedophile' is a debate in the House of Lords on modern...

I agree with #3. We need to do a 'blind' test. Can someone play just the 'mouse' to people who don't know the story and see what they come...

Klapeida and Palanga are not bad places. I took some pictures there (http://www.jeremytaylor.eu/palanga.htm) if you want to see what they...

A toy mouse that sings has been removed from shops after complaints that it wasn't singing 'Jingle Bells', but 'paedophile'.Make your own...

Watch this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCEQ2UJxePY&feature=related)

That's much better. I wonder why the BBC don't use it.

Her Italian former boyfriend... Those two adjectives don't seem to sit very comfortably together though I have heard them a lot recently....

Airports tend to give lousy rates so try to hang on and change your money later - or use ATMS.

The price I managed to get online, was 29 euros. The price at the station is 79 euros so I'm glad it worked out in the end. If you can buy...

May is a wonderful time as there is still plenty of snow around to make things photogenic but not too much to hinder your hiking. ...

Yep, it's slang. Very common.

From the respected British journalist, Gavin Esler, who recently arrived in America:...

It worked! Not quite sure how... Thanks all.

She was only a roofing contractor's daughter - but she liked her asphalt.

Trying to buy a ticket on the DB website, I put in all the details, clicked 'go' and got the message: ...