Dear All, I am proof reading a book which the authors would like to be in British English. The text is full of words such as: organize visualize standardized ...
I would definitely alter them since it is meant to be BE. Jay Eileen Küpper <eileen.kuepper@...> wrote: http://www.JBittner.com [Non-text portions of this...
Eileen, Have your writers already got a publisher? If so, I'd ask them which they want. If there is no publisher yet, I would have thought the-ise endings...
Dear members of the list, My son-in-law (German) has a rather good electronic dictionary about the size of a large pocket calculator. Recently, the word...
1) I can remember "beef olives" from my childhood (born in 1949 in Canterbury, England). 2) I'd point out that language/usage changes, that different areas use...
Bridget Laas
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May 3, 2007 8:32 am
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Bridget, Thanks for that. Very interesting. I've never come across it. Perhaps my mother only fed me fish and chips! Dennis [Non-text portions of this message...
G'day Olive (6) s not to be found in either Webster's Encyclopedic or Encarta. It is however in my big fat Langenscheidt Roulade = beef olive. For more...
Donald Lomas
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May 3, 2007 9:03 am
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Greetings, members of the Germany-English list. Here comes a scrap of inside information. In Die Zeit 10.05.07, the University of Osnabrueck will be...
A couple of weeks after IATEFL's Aberdeen online conference, here comes the next great free offer. Dennis ... From: Vance Stevens <vstevens@...> Date:...
Yet another online, virtual event worth taking note of. * Thursday 10th May 2007 Congress Centre, London * This year's symposium will attempt to look past the...
Dear members of TTEd SIG and Germany-English. A Turkish colleague has written to me asking: "One of my students wants to attend to a teacher training program...
Good morning Dennis and Group Your colleague should take a look at the www.icc-europe.com website where there are numerous TT Seminars and workshops on offer...
Donald Lomas
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May 7, 2007 8:50 am
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Don, Thanks very much for your reply. Much appreciated. Dennis [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Dear members of BESIG and Germany English, I'd appreciate comments on this mail from a friend and colleague on another list. ... I have a private student who...
I often see 'yourself/yourselves' used in this way. Macmillan English Dictionary says it's: "used instead of 'you' in order to be formal or polite, although...
Jonathan Marks
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May 8, 2007 10:27 am
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Johnathan, Thanks very much for answering. Dennis [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Yesterday, I spent much of the day in front of my monitor attending the Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2007 which discussed whether virtual worlds like Second...
Thanks Dennis Bit puzzled about the median age being 33% - it implies we all know how long we'll live! Thanks for this detailed information- plus all your...
Pamela, Thanks for writing. I assumed they meant the average age (of people visiting SA) , but median was the word used. Greetings, Dennis [Non-text portions...
I've just been sent this advertisement for a 2-year post as Lektor in the University of Wuppertal. See below for the full text, and note that the closing date...
There is a paid online service available, I think it is 8 Euro a month, where you can program a virtual video recorder and record, for downloading, any TV...
A rather long video, but one well worth seeing, has been brought to our attention by Jennifer Verschoor, moderator of professionaldevelopmentforteachers. It...
allo! A colleague of mine is having an interview for a job teaching EFL at a German university. She doesn’t know what questions to expect. Obviously from the...
Tim, You probably know that I taught at the university of Osnabrueck for 30 years. Osnabrueck and Dortmund are currently advertising for a Lektor. Both ...
Hi Dennis Could you please elaborate on the pay scale that is always quoted "E 13 TV-L" How much is this, is it enough to live on? Is it enough to support a...
I can't for the life of me work out if Rob sent this to me or to the list. Apologies if this is your second copy. Thanks a lot, Rob. Most helpful. Dennis Much...
Actually 1 is for single, divorced, separated and widowed people and 3 (the lowest) for married (either with a non-working spouse, or with a spouse who earns...
Bridget Laas
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May 14, 2007 12:14 pm
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Thanks Rob, Dennis and Bridget Sounds like a father of 5 with a non-working spouse ought to be on the next flight over! What about chances of extending such...
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