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![]() Congratulations! Congrats! ¡Te felicito! In honor of your 1000th (one thousandth) post, I'll take a moment to say that your English has improved. Writing one thousand posts, almost all of them in English, has certainly helped! Keep on posting! ![]() Last edited by Rusty; October 13, 2008 at 09:38 PM. |
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I agree with Rusty. Your English is better. Keep paying (continue to pay) attention to your corrections as you have in the past, and you will even get better. Felicidades.
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¡Felicidades! Todos nosotros hemos notado el cambio o mejor dicho el mejoramiento en tu inglés, ¿lo has notado tú?
UUUUYYYY.........MR. SAPPHIRE ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Well done for me, Yes Elaina I have checked my change when I'm posting, it an of the changes is that I can to write faster, I don't need to think a lot time already, only I have a problem sometimes I forget the words in English and I need find them again, but I don't worry for that, because during all these months, the dictionary of Tomisimo has helped me, well, sometime I'm awfully distracted and well, it does not change by now, well I'm grateful with all you for your good wish to me, I hope continue enjoying to the website with all my friends of divers countries.
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Divers is an old word which is seldom used in current speech. You'll find it in the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible, but hardly anywhere else.
The current spelling is diverse (and it has a different pronunciation). You could also use various or several instead of diverse. Sundry is also a synonym, but it sounds antiquated, too. |
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Well, but I feel that is more comfortable for me the words drivers, and I feel strange because, I have used a word a lot old in your speech, but Do I can continue using that word?, or it's necessary change.
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I think we all need to change with the times......if a word is too old to use and Rusty is kind enough to suggest a new one, then maybe you should use the new one.
![]() ![]() When one speaks a language, whether it is your native tongue or not, you are sending a message and you want that message to be understood by everyone. Sure you can use the words you want to use but know that there are options and some are better than others. ![]() ![]() My ![]()
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Look at this phrase from the KJV Bible:
"... earthquakes in divers places." Do a search on "in divers places." You'll get ~170,000 hits. That seems like a lot, but most of those come from the KJV Bible. The KJV Bible uses English that is almost 400 years old. Here, divers means "many" or "various." Do the same search on "in many places," and you'll see how much more common it is. There are over 400 words used in the KJV Bible that the average modern reader cannot understand without using a dictionary. Divers is one of those words. I wouldn't use it, if I were you. |
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I understand you, Rusty, and I have that change the word drivers for sundry, I think that the word Sundry is more pretty jijijijj, don´t worry I will try to do better my English.
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...with all my friends of divers countries ...with all my friends in different countries
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In Spain, is very common to use "diverso/s" as "divers".
Crotalito only looks for similar words. For example, you can usually use "graveyard" or "churchyard", but the spaniards prefers "cemetery", more near to his own "cementerio" saludos ![]()
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