Try to find linkages between what you want to memorise and other things that are unique to you. I still remember the phone number a friend of mine giving me 20 years ago. He only gave once. But it seems like being embossed into my brain. eg.

I'm not obeying the follow-up to sci.lang.translation because I don't read it, and this part of the discussion seems more appropriate for AUE, anyway. The problem with that idea is that "For Christ our ... of oath that a native

I read in sci.lang.translation that John Dean wrote (in ) about 'fer cryin' out loud', on Fri, 12 Sep 2003: OED thinks it's of US origin - earliest cite 1924 OED may be citing (as usual) the first written occurrence. I don't go

Also "LEO" (a German-English online dictionary) knows "stuck-up" meaning "arrogant, snooty". The only translation it gives for "stuck on" is "glued to, affixed".

can anyone explain (and ideally, translate into French) the English expression 'fer cryin' out loud' ? Maybe an *equivalent* if not a translation: "pour l'amour de dieu" at least that conveys the sense, I think.

They are from Alewxander Woodward's Bank of Ideas. a Hungarian translation.

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Yet I wonder if there is a formal secular equivalent of "au revoir" or "Auf Wiedersehen". "So long" is often thought to be a good translation of those expressions. "See you later" has become the standard

Yet I wonder if there is a formal secular equivalent of "au revoir" or "Auf Wiedersehen". "So long" is often thought to be a good translation of those expressions. "See you later" has become the standard

"So long" is often thought to be a good translation of those expressions. A bit controversial in etymology though: "Salaam" is the most likely. Secular in meaning but hardly in context. In the early '50s I read that there