Language Corner

I think it was pretty much the same here in Australia, when new policies saw aboriginals turned out from stations (ranches) where they'd laboured all of their lives. The new policy meant stockmen etc. had to be paid in currency other than flour, sugar and tea.

...words fail me.

Would someone please translate this sentence?

contigo, mi vida, quiero


Via a google search I came upon this:






It's a Woo thing, right?

you're not a long time lurker if you don't know
(yes, that's why I posted it)

translation
with you, my life, I want...

otronombre wrote:you're not a long time lurker if you don't know
(yes, that's why I posted it)

translation
with you, my life, I want...

Just to let you know, by "It's a Woo thing, right?", in English, one can ask a question, I can't explain it. I was being, and now I can't spell the word I'm thinking of. Pheeceecious.

Pinhedz
this would fit better in the Dvorak thread but maybe people there want to talk about Dvorak
I was watching a football match through a Russian channel yesterday. And the man who spoke said ayayayay quite frequently
Do Russians say ayayayay? Or he was just a strange one?

Also I've heard that in English it is better if you don't finish a sentence with a preposition. Why? And is it wrong if you do it? Nobody ever taught me about that. Or did I understand it wrong?

random ego of otro nombre wrote:Also I've heard that in English it is better if you don't finish a sentence with a preposition. Why? And is it wrong if you do it? Nobody ever taught me about that. Or did I understand it wrong?

[http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/ending-prepositions.aspx

I see. Thank you, Moony

Was it wrong that I said "finish a sentence"? It sounds wrong now that I read "end a sentence"

we have the word voluptuoso but it is more common to hear she's got where to grab

pinhedz wrote: Full-figured or Rubenesque - the latter term referring to the art of Peter Paul Rubens, best known for portraying full-bodied women.

I remember when my sister was a teenager she was a bit fat and she said she was born in the wrong era, "look at the paintings"



Anyway, thank you pinhedz. I'll just remain silent when I see a voluptuous one

I guess it's ok to do movies topics here

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=partridge

pinhedz wrote:Urban dictionary has shortcomings: " ... a type of bird alot like a feasant."

partridge? pheasant? gimme grouse any day

soʎnʇ sol ʎ sǝıʇuɐd sıɯ wrote:

trust me, you'll know when the wall is completed for the last brick is meant to occupy the place of your brain
tus panties 5:10

that "for" I don't know if I have heard it outside the satanic books
Is it right to use "for" as "because"? I wouldn't like to make anybody laugh while they're dying

Oh, that "for" is perfectly fine, soʎnʇ sol ʎ sǝıʇuɐd sıɯ - you may believe that for felix nose, okay?

It surprised me when I heard the expresion to know by heart when we say saberse de memoria- to know by memory (faculty)
But then we say recordar (remember, remind)-coming from latin cor (heart)- to go throught the heart twice or something similar
and you say memory also meaning recuerdo

yeah but we don't sign our recuerdos so it's all a mess when it comes to remember who did what

Man using abacus to reckon:



dead reckoning:

Day of Reckoning

pinhedz wrote:

blue moon wrote:Day of Reckoning

Sinister purpose reckons it's close at hand.

Whose hand, do you reckon?