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That's pretty colourful jargon. "Hot-button" has been around for awhile. This term describes an issue that is known to make many people immediately give a strong negative reaction. If the GOP campaigns along the lines of "under the Democrats, what you are going to see is a lot of "GAY...

yes...that Guest must be a Chinese as I am because that expression has been a classic joke on translation from Chinese to English. Let me explain this to the readers who may never heard of this.. 'colour' here means 'strength, power', so 'give u colour see see' means 'show you my power' We use...

Hi, Interesting. “The differences Between Spanish and English go beyond vocabulary. There is not a one-to-one correspondence between the two languages. If there were, then one would need Only a dictionary to build a correct and meaningful sentence”. Maybe translation programs are good for...

Pieter I can't help thinking about your translation problem. It occurs to me you need to do one of two things to get exactly what you need... stop me If I'm wrong... 1) meet a full on native english speaker who can understand your poems and work with them to acheive the desired effect. 2) Live...

The dictionary showed me the following sentence as an example of the usage of this expression: I certainly seemed to have a mash on her. (O. Henry) The dictionary claims that it means 'I was attracted by her'. But I read the referenced story by O. Henry and I am sure it meant 'I attracted...

Hitch, do you think we could have a section where difficult words or expression could be translated? Obviously, I am thinking of translating from Spanish into English and from English into Spanish but i would love to learn about other words in other languages, as well. e.g. hooked on =...

AT JOHN 1:1 the King James Version reads: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Trinitarians claim that this means that "the Word" (Greek, ho lo'gos) who came to earth as Jesus Christ was Almighty God himself. Someone who is "with" another person...

I believe that if you want to provoke students to creative thinking you should disrupt the comfortable balance in which their mind is. The art is how to do it without causing negative feelings towards the teacher. Somebody said:’ If you make people believe they think they’ll love you. If you put...