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I largely agree with Clive here. I've also never heard the term "standing tickets" I wonder if it is a direct translation of an idiom that either doesn't exist in English or has some other form. The only alternative I can think of is "standing room" so:P4: Do you want...

I hope that your patience outlasts mine. We are on a new page of this thread now, so I cannot easily see what came before. Therefore, I will freshly underline what I still see as problems and fix some others:I've seen this movie twice and it astonishes me a lot. Each person fits into themselves...

"Slang is mostly made by lively, imaginative people, who are not afraid of being different from others or of breaking the accepted rules of grammar and speech. It has been called 'the plain man's poetry' and is valuable because it gives new life to old ideas. Naturally it occurs most in...

Hi, When I first learned English, hear and listen were clear to me. The later requires the attentiveness of a listener. However, talk and speak ran my teacher in circle. He took an English-Vietnamese dictionary and told us to stick with the translation and then he failed to reason why some...

hi everyone, could any one check my body paragraph about " hypertext fiction ",plz?? i did already, but i need to improve it more because the teacher put many comments in it? the teacher wants from me to fix the resources?? i tried hard to express my opinin but the teacher said write more you...

Grammar Geek wrote:Hey JC, my cable was out yesterday. What happened? Anything new in the Sara/Grissom situation? Hi GG, I am watching the third episode of CSI during the translation of it...:-) I am almost at the end. Anyway, nothing important in Sara/Grissom situation for now. Sara is...

Speaking as an interpreter who runs a translation agency I would say those two terms are used synonomously by the general public, but, in a conversation between two professionals in that line they would not be used interchangably and if they were it would be very confusing.

Usually the institutions writes down in the ad whether they need the translation into English or not. Most of the empoyers don't need them in a earlier stage of the procedure. I would write an e-mail and aks them or just call them. As I was unsure about the call of the European Commission, I...

Apparently I was not still on-line. (I never sign off so it looks like I'm always on-line anyway.) Why the past after How long ...? To show a break between the stay and the present moment. In other words, the end of the stay took place before this conversation started. (The present...

Hello, I was the one who posted this question. I have a friend in Germany who is a college studdent that initially asked me the question. He writes... 'Lately I was sitting in a translation course and once in a while one of our lecturers says something I don't quite believe ;-) What do you...