Мы научили англичан придуманному нами английскому языку, чтобы привить им культуру.

Я свободно читал по-английски и думал, что за короткое время в Англии освою разговорный язык. Не тут-то было.

I happened to see a woman struggling on the stairs with a large suitcase. A man in his early thirties stopped and asked whether she would like some assistance.
Naturally, I stepped right in there and called him out for his disgusting sexism. Imagine being so entitled, I told him, to think that women need help in order to lift heavy items. He was ( Read more... )

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I'm having to miss a lot of socializing, because I am just too tired.

Но в современном мире человек, деятельность которого основана на научных данных, не может не владеть - к тому же, хорошо - английским языком: де-факто это язык науки. Подавляющего большинства научных статей по медицине на русском языке просто нет, полезность того, что изначально пишется на русском, в среднем невелика.

Способный ученик

Вчера пожилой джентльмен, сидя в очереди, читал учебник английского языка. Сегодня он уже читал «Робинзона Крузо» в оригинале.

Perhaps wisdom is being able to discover what is real and what is not.

I had been going along for a while now with more anxiety that I would generally like. It took forever to get anything done, because I was unable to do anything without completely freaking out.

Ebonics pronunciation includes features like the omission of the final consonant in words like 'past' (pas' ) and 'hand' (han'), the pronunciation of the th in 'bath' as t (bat) or f (baf), and the pronunciation of the vowel in words like 'my' and 'ride' as a long ah (mah, rahd). Some of these occur in vernacular white English, too, especially in ( Read more... )