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Tung Quoc  #287775  Tue, 31 Oct 06 07:51 AM

Hi Hancus

1/ Could you give me a link where I can find:

a/ any exact American standard definitions about the economy, finance, banking...

b/ any exact English standard definitions about the economy, finance, banking...

c/ any lessons of grammar. (that means if want to search the use of "gerund", I only type gerund and that'll appear).

d/ any meanings of idioms.

e/ American dictionary

f/ English dictionary.

2/ Please correct (1/)

Quoc

  
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Marius Hancu  #287834  Tue, 31 Oct 06 01:03 PM
>Hancus
Marius Hancu

a) Don't quite know.
I suggest you post business-related questions to the Business forum here:
http://www.englishforums.com/English/BusinessAndFinanceEnglish/Forum33.htm

Search Yahoo with:
"american financial glossary"
"american business glossary"
(quotation marks are important)

BusinessWeek

Browse or search business terms in the online business glossary.

business glossary - glossary

Personal Finance: Money 101: Glossary

b) Don't quite know

Search Yahoo with:
"british financial glossary"
"british economic glossary"
"british  businessglossary"

(quotation marks are important)

BBA - British Bankers' Association - Glossary




c) grammar
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm
http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary.html
http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks/engl_126/book126.htm
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/index.html
http://englishplus.com/grammar/contents.htm
http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/durrus/153/gramtoc.html
http://thegrammarexchange.infopop.cc/groupee/forums/

Also, see some of the links given here on the left the page:
http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/english/2004/12/are_you_wanting.html

d) Idioms
http://www.answers.com/library/Idioms
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/6720/
http://www.english-idioms.net/cgi-bin/main.cgi

d)  AmE dictionary
http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com (the best, but you have to pay, not much though, about $30/year)
http://www.m-w.com/ the free version, not as good, but still good

f) BrE dictionary
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/cmd_search.asp
http://www.ldoceonline.com/
  
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Marius Hancu  #287944  Tue, 31 Oct 06 08:21 PM
a) You should try to find forums such as this one, oriented on finances, business, etc.

Search at Yahoo/Google for such forums, e.g. with:

financial online forums
business online forums
economics online forums


and you will find forums such as:
http://www.money-talk.org/board.html

After some familiarization, you should be able to ask there your questions.

A good place for business, should be here at businessweek.com:
http://www.businessweek.com/
Click on Register.
I think then you can have access to all their online forums, which could be very good.
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The same should be valid at Forbes and other magazines.

http://www.ft.com
http://www.economist.com

A subscription to the Economist online version would also be very good (but it coasts money).




  
Tung Quoc  #288057  Wed, 01 Nov 06 04:37 AM

Thanks Hancus,

Could you give me some others forums of business where I can ask anything I want?

Quoc

  
Marius Hancu  #288186  Wed, 01 Nov 06 12:16 PM
 Tung Quoc wrote:

Thanks Hancus,

Could you give me some others forums of business where I can ask anything I want?
My name is Marius Hancu.

I don't have other forums. Please search Yahoo.

OK, I've just found:
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.invest.stocks?lnk=sg&hl=en
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.invest.mutual-funds?lnk=lr&hl=en
which are Usenet groups. You may need Usenet (NNTP) or Google access in order to post to them, but you can read them at Google without being a member.
  
Tung Quoc  #288241  Wed, 01 Nov 06 02:20 PM

Sorry and thanks,

Yes Hancu, not Hancus. Smile [:)]

Quoc

  
Marius Hancu  #288252  Wed, 01 Nov 06 02:40 PM
BTW, I think that even when saying Hello or Hi on such a forum, you should use the  first name (Marius), the full name (Marius Hancu) or an acronym (MH), but not the last name (Hancu).

The last name is used by your boss at the office and has some paternal or seniorial connotation, IMO, and I don't think it's polite on such a forum. Or, your colleagues may use it in an ironic fashion.


  
Tam Sadek  #288258  Wed, 01 Nov 06 02:53 PM
"...or an acronym (MH),"

Actually "MH" are your 'initials'...

An acronym is an abbreviation consisting of the initial letters of words in the name of something - pronounced as a word, e.g.

AIDS = Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
  
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Marius Hancu  #288265  Wed, 01 Nov 06 02:58 PM
This is an acronym AND the initials

http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=WS&Find=find&string=exact

You'll find William Shakespeare as WS in the acronym finder in the above.

I think I can use the term acronym for my much more modest name tooSmile [:)]
  
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