#English

EiF

EiFSoccer

There are many viable options for Arsenal to pursue to fill the managerial position, but one man stands above the rest.Assuming he’s not waiting for an eventual Barcelona order, Marcelo

🍂AteA'TIN ♨🐥🍂Hanggang Sa Huli!🍂

AteJoj

GUYS CHILL. Please. Remember u r reading SUBTITLES. Translations usually do not carry the same weight depending on the proficiency of d translator on the source & target languages. Translations

Saraswati Films

mmpandit

Short thread on mantras and why their translation into other languages will not work (especially into English and other European languages)The question is asked “We can’t understand Sanskrit mantras, why

June Hall

afclhoratio

It's interesting how the meanings of words change over time. For example, the mot du jour is 'ramp'. We have several older printed dictionaries at home, shall we see what

Lucianl0

Lucianl0

English vocabularies of the day:1] advocateSentence making:1) The legalization of same-sex marriage has been widely advocated.2) The principal strongly advocates the implementation of sex education in school, believing it could

S.B. Divya

divyastweets

Friends, this is an incredibly difficult time to be a debut #author. I'm gathering a list of trad-pubbed science fiction & fantasy debuts for 2020 to support and point readers

Siqi Chen

blader

I worked for a startup called Powerset in 2007 that tried to build something like this. We spent $100M and it was bought by MSFT to become Bing in 2008.A

Thomas

Turtrain

3. For English, we had to read English literature. A big genre within English literature were dystopian novels. A dystopia is basically a government controlled society where you just get

Paul Singh

Paul1Singh

I listened to a very interesting interview from a Fianna Fáil MEP which basically said that the Northern Ireland situation isn’t just about Brexit, it’s also about the feeling of

hibo wardere

HiboWardere

#nofgm tnread on embarking to find out why I suffered so much giving birth. What was those 3 letters stand for FGM. that's back early 90s So I give birth.

T.K. of AAK!

AskAKorean

A bit of a meta-point about Korea watching - As we could see from S Korea's Assembly election, there is a sea change in the people who are forming the

vi

valescarvajals

1) i dont wanna get into drama but i think there is a difference between being entitled and asking for easier accessibility to a product. i was the first to

RW Hedges

RwHedges

Village Green thread"Vaudeville is not characteristically English, having developed in North America, and the prominence given to Donald Duck is similarly telling. It is both ironic (incongruous with an English

Andray Abrahamian

Draylien

Arriving in Seoul during a pandemic is a little like arriving in Pyongyang normally. Not many flights at the airport, lots of forms, serious but helpful Koreans, feeling of nervousness

Patrick Galey #BlackLivesMatter

patrickgaley

So the French for walnut is “noix”, which just means “nut”Which begs the question: do they consider walnuts to be the most nut-like nut, the platonic, ideal nut?Or did they

Jeff Holliday

slimjinpyo

Yesterday one of my students defended her PhD thesis on foreign accent in Korean, and among the many interesting things she points out is that there is no agreed-upon Korean