exact meaning please? as in this paragraph from an article in the American mag The Atlantic:
"The Internet, while no substitute for gainful employment, has made many things cheaper that used to take extra income to buy--communication, notably, including private information-sharing and professional collaboration. It has made casual retail cheaper (and more convenient). It has also made mass entertainment cheaper, especially music and amateur videos. These commodities have grown cheaper, in…
I notice that the baby's weight is being reported in the UK press as 8 lbs 6 oz. Is it the UK custom to use old units for baby weights, instead of kilos? (At least they didn't use stones.)
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Someone called me on other thread good fairy. Is fairy both male and female in English or only female? If only female, What would be a (similar) male alternative?
Thanks in advance.
I'm checking a UK English publication that refers to "computer modeling"
I assume that for UK, this should be 'modelling' with double ll - but I just wanted to check I'm right.
I know programme is still spelled 'program' in the UK when it refers to computers, so was just wondering whether there might be a similar convention for computer modeling/modelling?
Thanks!
...to work. It's the famous "Swordfish" scene in The Marx Brothers' movie DUCK SOUP. Youtube has it.
"Swordfish" ...in this sketch (starting at about the 17-second mark)? If possible I'd like to know what the Italian version is and what it means in English.
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My nearly 3-year-old daughter is bilingual with Swahili and German and quite used to English as well, as her father and I are mainly speaking English to each other. She pronounces most sounds very clearly in both languages, but cannot pronounce the r-sounds in any of them yet: English r she simply omits (sto-i instead of story), the Swahili r, which is like the Italian one, she replaces by l (habali instead of habari, which is very common even amongst adult Swahili speakers) and the German r she…
Hi. I'm translating a short text about an elderly woman who chooses to go into a home when she's still fully alert and independent, and continues to live there as she deteriorates to a totally dependent, near-comatose state. Very cheery. Anyway, the home caters for both conditions and everything in between. What would you call it? Can I say "nursing home" even though there's no nursing at the beginning? Or assisted living, even though it's more than "assisted" at the end?
Also, before I start a…
I'm trying to learn a Slavic language (just enough to be able to understand written comments that Google is unable to translate), and the cases are driving me crazy. All of the grammar books I can find talk about accusative, dative, genitive, and nominative cases, but I have no clue what they're talking about. I'm trying to remember if I just missed those days in class, but I don't think so. I don't think we were ever taught grammar in school. Why is that?
A San Francisco TV station, which has been reliably reporting on the recent crash of a Korean plan in SF, fell for a prank. Some things are still a little vague, but the station reported the names of the pilots on air. As you can see from the link above, it was a horrible prank. (It appears that the prank may have originated within the station.)
The station called the NTSB, the federal agency investigating the crash, to confirm the names. A volunteer student intern did indeed…