Mind the gap: The very amusing English thread

[BinoMaus]

Well somtimes teachers don't know what they are talking about ^^

 

[iFan]

I've a terrible english teacher... sadly (?)

 

[Derivat]

Oh no.

You are not better as my english teacher! :-c

I never claimed that! I would not even dare!

 

[Tommy*]

Oh, I'm sorry! I just took my Longman© Dictionary and looked it up: You really were right!
So my english teacher has told me bullshit about that years ago! Somehow I knew that I shouldn't believe everything she said!
Thx for the note, Tommy*!

Well, sometimes English teachers do that.

 

[darkCarpet]

hardly= kaum :-D hm c'est vrai mon copain french is one of the most beautiful languages ever.

You are right

Nope, I'm sorry! iFans version was the right one! Getting up is the right expression for the fact that you awake. "Wake up" is the term for "waking someone up" what means that u make someone awake. But for that you already have to be got up before"

For example:
I got up at 5 o'clock in the morning.
I woke my friend up by ringing the phone.

Both of them are a right solution.

to wake up -aufwachen
to wake up -aufwecken
to wake up -erwachen
to wake up -erwecken
to wake up - wecken

You can say: I had been woken up at 5 o´clock. The passive


English is such a great language. An awful lot of expressions for one thing

 

[Smooky]

Now i have some words for you boys and girls. What does this sentence mean:

"Your thru the looking glas"

 

[Tommy*]

It means nothing, because it's non-grammatical. Do you mean "You are through the looking glass?" This could relate to "Alice through the looking glass", a story in which Alice meanders through a mirror into a wonderland

I suppose it means that you're standard world view has been shattered and now you feel like being in some kind of wonderland.

EDIT: Turns out, I'm right Some dude on the internet visited a con: "Anime conventions are full of weird and stupid stuff that never gets reported, so you're through the looking glass now, people."

 

[Bananenbieger]

I'm currently wondering whether rumsi will start using
*piano*

 

[Nighthawk]

and hardly is the adverb -> sucking hardly / hardly alone means "kaum"

Nope. The adverb is of 'hard' is 'hard'.

 

[darkCarpet]

Nope. The adverb is of 'hard' is 'hard'.

You are absolutely right. I have forgotten that hard is one of the rare exceptions.

 

[walksunix]

Nope. The adverb is of 'hard' is 'hard'.

Thanks. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hardly

 

[Giftmischer]

Le francais est le language tres interessant. Bien sûr, tu peux écrire avec moi :-D

That is not bad. There is only 1 mistake as far as I can see. Are you really 8 years old?

 

[Maluku]

Man this thread is quite startling. I'm away for about a day and suddenly it is 28 pages long? I mean we were just fooling around in that other "Translation" thingy and now 28 pages? If it continues to grow this fast it will squash the "Fun-Thread" or even the "I got something new"-thread.
Is this deserved? I don't think so.
But is this fun? Yeah, we even had people banned over this. So it better is.

BTW:
It would be nice for some native speakers to wade this sea of bile and correct the mistakes to aid us in our pursuit of english-speaking greatness.

 

[walksunix]

That is not bad. There is only 1 mistake as far as I can see. Are you really 8 years old?

Maybe you'll correct this 1 mistake?

 

[Giftmischer]

Maybe you'll correct this 1 mistake?

Le francais est un language tres intéressant. Bien sûr, tu peux écrire avec moi.

When you use the word "le" you mean "the most interesting". In this case the sentence looks like:

Le français est le language le plus intéressant.

 

[Nighthawk]

Le francais est un language tres intéressant. Bien sûr, tu peux écrire avec moi.

I'm sorry but that's not correct either. The word 'language' doesn't exist in French.
'Le français est une langue très intéressante.' would be right.

 

[Maluku]

That is not bad. There is only 1 mistake as far as I can see. Are you really 8 years old?

Maybe he is a wunderkind? Have you checked his kindergarten? maybe they put delicatessen in his rucksack everyday. Well this is just a gedankenexperiment, no need for angst.

 

[Firemac]

BTW:
It would be nice for some native speakers to wade this sea of bile and correct the mistakes to aid us in our pursuit of english-speaking greatness.

my english is not so good, but did you mean, that the native speakers should correct our mistakes? correcting our mistakes would be beautiful =)

 

[Tommy*]

Man this thread is quite startling. I'm away for about a day and suddenly it is 28 pages long? I mean we were just fooling around in that other "Translation" thingy and now 28 pages? If it continues to grow this fast it will squash the "Fun-Thread" or even the "I got something new"-thread.
Is this deserved? I don't think so.
But is this fun? Yeah, we even had people banned over this. So it better is.

BTW:
It would be nice for some native speakers to wade this sea of bile and correct the mistakes to aid us in our pursuit of english-speaking greatness.

Yeah, right. Like someone would do that without pay. I wouldn't.

 

[Anu_bis]

Man this thread is quite startling. I'm away for about a day and suddenly it is 28 pages long? I mean we were just fooling around in that other "Translation" thingy and now 28 pages? If it continues to grow this fast it will squash the "Fun-Thread" or even the "I got something new"-thread.
Is this deserved? I don't think so.

You remember the 'Bumf and some questions' Thread (was that correct )?
I think he was growing about a month or two and then he was lost in the archives...
But I think, this Thread is way better than the 'Bumf and some questions' Thread, this Thread was funny even though...