Forum: Grammar
October 11, 2015, 02:20 PM
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Yes and no. It depends on what your aim is.
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Yes and no. It depends on what your aim is.
If your sole aim is to be understood then you can leave off many accents and punctuation marks. Human languages have lots of redundancy, and we're good...
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Forum: Suggestions & Feedback
September 25, 2015, 01:19 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 6,405
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Forum: Idioms & Sayings
September 06, 2015, 03:50 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 4,649
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Forum: Grammar
August 08, 2015, 02:04 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 3,082
Traditional accounts of English grammar are...
Traditional accounts of English grammar are directly (in the case of the earlier ones) or indirectly (following their predecessors) influenced by Latin grammar, even though the grammar of English as...
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Forum: Grammar
August 01, 2015, 03:14 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 3,144
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Forum: Grammar
June 26, 2015, 01:57 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,574
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Forum: Grammar
June 21, 2015, 02:35 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,901
Grammatically both sentences are correct....
Grammatically both sentences are correct. However, and this may be a cultural thing, to call immigration officers members of a "disciplinary force" sounds wrong to me. The term is clearly appropriate...
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Forum: Idioms & Sayings
May 09, 2015, 08:23 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 2,767
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Forum: Grammar
March 13, 2015, 05:49 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 2,539
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Forum: Grammar
March 07, 2015, 03:15 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 2,107
Hablar is the infinitive form, not the...
Hablar is the infinitive form, not the imperative. That aside, there are various possible "layers" of answer.
The simplest is "That's just the way it is". It might not seem very helpful, but it is...
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Forum: Idioms & Sayings
October 24, 2014, 04:42 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 5,539
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Forum: Technical things
July 05, 2014, 02:14 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 16,735
Upgraded PHP?
http://www.tomisimo.org/idioms/ is giving me a bunch of errors about the deprecation of assigning the return value of new by reference. I would guess that your hosting provider has upgraded the...
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Forum: Vocabulary
June 18, 2014, 03:28 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 15,863
And even then it's a rare one: the Latin word...
And even then it's a rare one: the Latin word flos is masculine, but at some point most of the Romance languages have made their cognate words feminine. (Italian is an exception). I wonder whether...
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Forum: Vocabulary
June 07, 2014, 07:35 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,802
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Forum: Vocabulary
May 13, 2014, 02:00 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 3,582
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Forum: Culture
May 05, 2014, 02:37 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 9,742
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Forum: Culture
May 05, 2014, 01:37 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 9,742
Yo no hablo más que algunas palabras del...
Yo no hablo más que algunas palabras del valencià, pero puedo decirte que es un dialecto del catalán. Básicamente el catalán se divide en tres familias de dialectas: occidental, oriental, y...
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Forum: General Chat
April 30, 2014, 01:43 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 5,942
Get a copy of...
Get a copy of http://www.cambridge.org/es/elt/catalogue/subject/project/pricing/isbn/item1113942/?site_locale=es_ES . It condenses a lot more experiences than you'll hear from a handful of people on...
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Forum: General Chat
April 19, 2014, 01:17 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 13,848
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Forum: General Chat
April 19, 2014, 05:15 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 13,848
That and your sunburn ;)
On the topic of...
That and your sunburn ;)
On the topic of accents, most people speaking a foreign language betray their origin just as much as they do when speaking their own language. It's usually not hard to...
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Forum: Translations
April 11, 2014, 06:01 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 2,013
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Forum: Vocabulary
April 07, 2014, 05:25 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 4,550
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Forum: Vocabulary
March 18, 2014, 09:00 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 4,192
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Forum: Translations
March 12, 2014, 05:02 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,932
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Forum: Vocabulary
March 12, 2014, 03:36 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 3,345
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