Hi everyone, I have two questions connected with my translation struggle: 1. In "The Colossus" poem, Sylvia Plath mentions a mule ("Mule-bray, pig-grunt and bawdy cackles/Proceed from your great lips./It's worse than

I'm not sure I'd go quite so far as to say that this style is "good" or "correct". I just don't think it's as dreadfully bad as your original post suggested. To me, including the article is often a chatty way of

He's talking about TV, so keep that in mind. While normally I can't stand this guy, and I find more than a little irony in the first part of his speech because he's guilty of generating a lot of divisiveness, there's a lot of truth

but all to convey the realities of Mayan life at that time http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2006/12/15/maya/index.html "This final scene tells us that the movie focuses on Maya society on the eve of Spanish contact in the 16th century. Yet

a fast pass: __ means I erased a word --------------- Yesterday, I read some articles from BBC news about the life in Iraq. I was surprised to find that I had several misconceptions about Iraq. Firs t, t hey are not poor. They are

Hi, teachers I try to write something to improve my writing. Would you please correct me that you think is not proper. Thanks! Yesterday, I read some articles from BBC news about the life in Iraq. I was surprised to find that I had several

Mashmellow wrote: An engineer called Stephen Salter outlined his latest idea about turning wind turbines into rain-making machines as follows: a floating wind turbine that sprays water vapour high into the air, to increase evaporation from the

Hi Demetrius, I mean exactly what you explained with your sentence "...means that men say that adultery is a profitable business in which to be involved''. Well, it is actually a column of a female author which is full of irony and puns. I'm

In article , Distortion wrote: Which symbols are more effective for building suspense, and adding irony, wit, and "edge" ?? or ?! (or ???) This - ?! - is called an interrobang. It's the one you should use; it's discussed pretty

Good point so what was the supposed "wrath of the FCC" they wanted to avoid? Eventually, when enough people pointed out to the National Scrabble Association that their announcement was nonsense, it was changed. The ... rude words in a