By Translation, Spelling

"It is of good quality" is correct but sounds a little stilted, like a translation. In the US you'd be more likely to hear simply, "It's a good-quality folder." However, you get 10 bonus points for spelling "stationery" correctly and NOT with the...

Hi, You might like to look at a dictionary of etymology. eg despite 1297, from O.Fr. despit, from L. despectus "a looking down on," from despicere (see despise). The preposition (1593) is short for in despite of (1292), a loan-translation of Fr. en despit de "in contempt of." Almost became...

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Thank you for your help. I've finished the translation now. I made it up a bit. I think you're right about it being offensive. And I'm pretty sure I spelt it right too because I had to google it a couple times before getting the spelling right. That's what it sounds like too. Wacegash.

Hi, Your sentences contain many mistakes, both spelling and punctuation ones. The first sentence is part a Christian prayer (shortened form, I put '...' where parts of the text are missing): Credo in unum Deum Patrem omnipotentem; factorum coeli et terrae, visibilium omnium et invisibilium...

Hi,I guess you need a translator, not a dictionary, don't you? Or do you need a bilingual dictionary?If you actually need a translator, I can't recommend any. I've never used translators for the simple reason that they don't work very well. They usually don't take account of the context,...

ok.. I would just like to clarify something - I do in fact make my students aware that zero is commonly pronounced as the letter 'O'. I teach to German people, most of whom are already aware of this due to years of English courses in school, etc.. In German, the word for 'zero' is 'Null' and...

i'm sorry i think i made the wrong spelling, it is "in respect of", but it seems only available in some chinese-english dictioinary, and i dont know if it is really common one, it means "with regard to" or "with respect to" as you've show, well, now i find that this is not exactly but almost the...

Ant_222 wrote:«Have you heard that arrogance gets you nowhere?» I agree completely that nobody is obliged to reply, I didn't even imply the opposite. The problem is that I don't want to have two or more parralel threads on the same subject... What arrogance? I was just interested whether I can...

Howdy This is the article I've written a while ago. I hope that it can be interesting for someone. This is one of my first attempts to bring all my thoughts together. "A language is a living substance, which evolves under the influence of different factors. Being very flexible English language...