In fact, after thinking at it the correct translation of the expression would be: "This removes a splinter from my finger." Thanks again.

Hello all, Here are my two bits. Holland is not quite a nickname. Industry and, especially, a brewer of beer in green bottles have long been promoting the misnomer "Holland" because it saves some time and ink. They even use it as an

Hello, the passage in bold feels a bit weird to me. Shouldn't there be an article 'a' before the 'spilling-over'? thanks Lenny Translation, when practiced by relatively bilingual individuals but especially

The King James Bible translation of the second commandment reads: A. Exo 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the

Hi, One of my friends asked me to translate his web page to the English, I did it, but I am not sure of whether it is true 100 percent...please check over it for me in case any mistakes in it my best wishes for all those who spend their

It does give one pause! To me, M. B.'s position is that the original (the foreign text) is a wealth of material open to interpretation (to be released or captured in a unique way). That is, it's not a "monument" whose true

MEDIAEVAL ENGLISH STUDIES NEWSLETTER SPECIAL ISSUE NO. I (JULY 1986) 1984 "Understandan as a Loan Translation, a Separable Verb and an Inseparable Verb" Studies in English Philology and Linguistics in Honour of Dr . Tamotsu Matsunami,

Personally, I don't usually spend a lot of time trying to psychoanalyze why authors nearly 100 years ago chose this or that tense! Hello, CJ, and thanks for the feedback. I bet you don't stumble over such things either. You are a native

(Do you think I'll ever find out which came first, the verb or the verbal?) You may not find out which came first but you'll certainly learn their meanings here: ver·bal adj. 1. of or pertaining to words: verbal

I followed a link provided by sitifan in a forum to this thread. In the other post he questioned a usage of "Uncle Chang" in an English text book used in Taiwan. I assume he's using this thread to draw the conclusion that the text