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Hello, I have made this translation from danish to english, and I would like you to run it through and see if you can find any errors, if you find any then please write a post in which you explain where the error is and why it is an error. My translation: The battle of Bannockburn in 1314 and...

Here below is a chinese-english translation I spent nearly 2 hours on, I woud like to hear your opinons on my translation, or point out any odd words appearing in this translation. Thank you in advance! One brain is used as Two, and Rewarded as Ten. As the head of Lifan groups, 66 year-old...

Aznmask wrote:On Friendship By Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux Few Americans stay put for a lifetime. We move from town to city to suburb, from high school to college in a different state, from a job in one region to a better job elsewhere, from the home where we raise our children to the home...

Hello Anon Maybe: "There is also the myth of the Pure Type, who (for some reason) women never stop thinking about. Our hero, Pure, who will dress you up in house coat and curlers, is like the Bank of England: he represents safety, stability and a low interest rate." I'd avoid the floating...

Hello again, MrP (IF I may I call you MrP). I think I understand now what you meant in the post I found confusing. You said: “...which implies that the subject of the <whosever/whose-ever> clause in the example is the same as the subject of the main clause. However, the subject of the...

A similar case is Byron's translation of Menander: 1. Whom the gods love dies young. where <whom> means <whomever>. This seems doubtful to me; the subject of <dies> is not <whom the gods love>, but an idea implicit in <whom the gods love>. (It seems in some...

1) Is it correct to say "INDUSTRIAL world" or should I say "INDUSTRIALISED world" ? "industrialised" is the standard expression. 2) Is there a difference between "underfed" and "undernourished" ? Yes. If I still feel hungry after eating, I feel underfed! But I'm certainly not undernourished,...

For Whom the Bell Tolls was the title of a novel by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1940 about the Spanish Civil War. The words, however come form a much older source - the English divine, somewhat enigmatical and rakish John Donne (16th/17th century). He wrote of his apprehensions while lying...

On Friendship By Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux Few Americans stay put for a lifetime. We move from town to city to suburb, from high school to college in a different state, from a job in one region to a better job elsewhere, from the home where we raise our children to the home where we...

To whom it may concern. Note: Gavagai problem The philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine went after these sorts of questions in his 1960 work Word and Object. It is here that he first presents his now-classic "gavagai" thought-experiment: An anthropologist is studying a remote tribal population...