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Hello Hela, yes, it's nice to see you too! I'm not posting here much at the moment, because my pc is defective; but I hope to be re-kitted-out shortly... If I say that you're harping on about X, I mean that you are obsessively talking about X, in an irritating and excessive...

LOL, that's what happens when you don't have the slightest idea how to express a certain concept in another language. Dictionary, direct translation... total nonsense. That's why I believe every learner should use a monolingual dictionary "for learners", where everything...

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Hi, everyone! Happy New Year! But I'm trying to be happy. I'm pulled into a debate over "the very English standard" in a Chinese translation forum. A "sensible" lad who crammed in China's New Oriental Language School asserts that many usages, including those in nytimes.com, economist.com,...

1) The scene was rockin', all were digging the sound ( translation : the scene was going on, all were enjoying the sound / music ); "The scene" was the party. It was "rockin" meaning everyone was having a good time. We were all enjoying the music is good. 2) Igor on chains backed by his...

Clive wrote: I like this kind of posts <-- it seems it's used this way too. I can't recollect hearing this version at all. Hi, Clive, You mean you've not ever heard it in Canada? I think you read expressions like that in the EF. At least, I did, and they were used by...

Can you unpack a bit more the nuance of the colloquial Danish expression? Phrases that spring to mind in English are things like "arranged marriage", which isn't quite right, or "bartered with other plantation owners", which doesn't quite bring across the dehumanising element of treating...

Hi, So the article is wrong. Yes. It seems to me like it might be a translation of some kind. It should also begin with Peopl e can say anything You wouldn't write 'at the face value'. Could you tell me why it is incorrect? It's really just idiomatic, that's just the way we like to say it....

Hello GG I feel the English expression "superior to me" comes from a Latin phrase "me superiorem (elder than me)" where "me" is the ablative case of the pronoun for the first person singular but incidentally the same in form as the accusative "me". On the other hand "my superior" might have its...

Below is a translation work I'm doing. But I cannot figure out what the author is talking about in the last long sentence marked as blue by me. Besides, I'm dying to know what the pronoun it therein refers to. "To write about the modernist novel, as opposed to the Victorian novel, say, or the...