... You won't find a suitable verb that has the same stem as "transient" or "nomad". Jamie...
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James Kirchner
kirchnerjk
Nov 7, 2004 4:22 am
... However, my instinct tells me that we wouldn't use that expression when talking about what a real gypsy does. Usually (at least in songs, and surely in...
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James Kirchner
kirchnerjk
Nov 7, 2004 4:27 am
... Of course I wasn't claiming MTV people are anything like Stalinists. Please. Next you're going to accuse me of claiming Jacques Chirac is a Stalinist....
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James Kirchner
kirchnerjk
Nov 7, 2004 4:57 am
... Nearly every feature (other than some vocabulary) that some people claim was carried into Southern US English from West African languages can be explained...
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Michael Grant
mgrant@...
Nov 7, 2004 5:12 am
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 23:27:13 -0500, James Kirchner ... Your friend seems to have been--unless I'm completely missing the point of that quote? Michael -- "Aber...
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James Kirchner
kirchnerjk
Nov 7, 2004 5:18 am
... How do you get directly from "lefty" all the way to Stalinist? It doesn't seem to me that saying someone is leftist is the same as saying they are a...
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Michael Grant
mgrant@...
Nov 7, 2004 7:39 am
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 00:18:48 -0500, James Kirchner ... "Communist tyranny"--maybe I just mistook the point of the whole comment. Michael -- "Aber ja! Es gibt...
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Tertech
czechlist@...
Nov 7, 2004 9:44 am
Copak maji akciovky nejake jednatale, Jirko??? IMHO a neutral and politically correct translation of jednatel is "managing director", except in some specific...
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Tertech
czechlist@...
Nov 7, 2004 9:50 am
No to bych v oficialnim textu rozhodne nepouzil, definitelly un-PC, bordering on racist... "to ... M...
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Jirka Bolech
jirkabolech
Nov 7, 2004 10:05 am
... Nad tim jsem nikdy nehloubal, ale rekl bych, ze nektere ano. Priklad: http://www.centrostav.cz/. Jirka Bolech...
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Tertech
czechlist@...
Nov 7, 2004 10:19 am
To musi byt pozustatek z doby, kdy byli s.r.o.??? - akciovky maj predsedy predstavenstva a dozorcich rad, generalni reditele a kdovikoho jeste, ale jednatele...
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Jirka Bolech
jirkabolech
Nov 7, 2004 10:32 am
... Nepochybne mas pravdu. Muj puvodni navrh pouzivat "acting secretary" by tedy mel byt pro vetsi s.r.o... Jirka Bolech...
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Hana Viansová
bebeebeee@...
Nov 7, 2004 12:28 pm
Diky vsem, kdo mi pomohli s vyhledavaci (tam jsem se asi fakt sekla), kocovanim a jizanskym prizvukem. Preposilam prizvuk kamaradce, at si z toho vybere, co...
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Hana Viansová
bebeebeee@...
Nov 7, 2004 12:35 pm
Melvyn wrote: -----If you really insist on a single word (but why??), It´s actually not me but my students. If it was just me I´d happily go for nomadic...
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James Kirchner
kirchnerjk
Nov 7, 2004 12:59 pm
... This is when I start the lecture about languages not having equivalent terms. This involves writing a bunch of English words on the blackboard that have...
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tomas_barendregt
tomas_barend...
Nov 7, 2004 4:03 pm
... Hi Jamie, Of course, the fact that there isn't always a one-for-one equivalency between terms in different languages is not something I will dispute. After...
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Michael Grant
mgrant@...
Nov 7, 2004 4:11 pm
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 08:00:07 -0500, James Kirchner ... What's a swimmobile? Michael -- "Aber ja! Es gibt unendlich viel Hoffnung. Nur nicht für uns." - Franz...
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James Kirchner
kirchnerjk
Nov 7, 2004 4:15 pm
... Great. I'd better tell my former students. Jamie [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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James Kirchner
kirchnerjk
Nov 7, 2004 4:18 pm
... It's a big semi whose trailer is a swimming pool. In the summer it goes around to ghetto neighborhoods where there's no pool and where the people likely...
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melvyn.geo
Nov 7, 2004 5:38 pm
... in every class there´s at least ONE student who will ... I'd just ask such students why they presume there should be an exact single-word equivalent....
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Hana Viansová
bebeebeee@...
Nov 7, 2004 7:04 pm
... beat a clumsy single-word equivalent any time of day. That´s the problem with THIS type of student - if you tell them that they´ll just give you an...
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James Kirchner
kirchnerjk
Nov 7, 2004 7:41 pm
... I wouldn't do this under normal circumstances, but when the students are getting arrogant and positive that the English language is deficient, or that the...
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James Kirchner
kirchnerjk
Nov 7, 2004 7:43 pm
... Sometimes one such student's attitude can infect a large part of the class, and you have to deal with it. Jamie [Non-text portions of this message have...
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melvyn.geo
Nov 7, 2004 11:23 pm
... So surely you have to keep framing your points as questions. And use examples from Jamie's list. Here, let me role-play your recalcitrant student: "Hana,...
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Tropen
josefaron
Nov 8, 2004 9:06 am
Hi! Thank you Kostas for your suggestion. The Google says generally the following: "Provision date is normally the day before the event. starts" - Maybe the ...
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Beata Rodlingova
beatarodlingova
Nov 8, 2004 12:04 pm
Dear NS (or any idiom-able non-NS). Was asked what "chytat nekoho za slovo" (i.e. to build your argument on a particular word your opponent has used, sometimes...
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James Kirchner
kirchnerjk
Nov 8, 2004 12:24 pm
... Your friend is wrong. The expression is "to seize on a word..." or "to seize upon a word..." You can seize upon other things besides words, and the...
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Milan Condak
mcondak
Nov 8, 2004 12:37 pm
Dobry den, //omlouvam se za cross-posting// // clenove vice skupin, laskave duplikaty smazte// Nejprve informace: poslal jsem na web sobotni prednasku Od...
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Terminus Technicus
czechlist@...
Nov 8, 2004 12:40 pm
Thanks to all who helped with the rolling trucks... If what I understand is what he is really trying to say, it's perfectly clear English for (pardon my Czech)...
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Terminus Technicus
czechlist@...
Nov 8, 2004 12:41 pm
Note that (IMHO) Chytim vas za slovo, or vezmu vas za slovo, is both also used to mean "I'll take you up on that" (usually when the word, i.e. an offer of some...
