Lawyer-linguist, lecturer, language lover. ATA President (2001-2003). UVA Law Grad. ATA-certified translator from French, Spanish, German and Dutch to English

Lookout Mountain, TN
Joined June 2012
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Replying to @LanguageCrawler
I think that smtms is really annoying way to write sometimes!
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Replying to @LanguageCrawler
That book is pretty ridiculous! (I say this as a former president of the ATA.)
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Replying to @LanguageCrawler
Speaking of books on Amazon, I’m wondering whether you have a copy of Wörterbuch deutscher Präpositionen, which sells for a paltry $601. 🤪
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En la escuela primaria acá nos enseñaron a decir “broma u obsequio”…
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Viele Grüße an Euch alle. Und viel Spaß in Portland!
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I’m a big fan of that channel! Flamenco is a hilarious mistranslation!
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Replying to @LanguageCrawler
I purchased this book and it is teeming with errors: spelling errors, translation errors and grammatical errors. It needs to be overhauled and republished.
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Replying to @anglopremier
Et tu le traduis comment ?
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Replying to @bdfrancq
Considerate means kind and polite, always thinking of others 🧐
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Replying to @GrammarTable
If I were going to fake a British accent (yikes!) I would say “called” because I hear Brits saying that where we would say “named”!
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Replying to @GrammarTable
Another book you might enjoy is the one that claims that grammar is different in the UK than in the US, e.g., “He insisted that I went” means one thing in UK and something else in US!
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PS Maybe “why sing sang sung but not bring brang brung?” Maybe that’s a mystery? Although not really.
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Replying to @GrammarTable
What’s an example of a mystery of English grammar ? I can’t think of one off the top of my head.
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Never mind. I just saw this: "Dependent" is the dominant form in American English for both the noun and adjective, while in British English, "dependant" is more common for the noun.
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Replying to @anglopremier
That’s weird. He misspelled dependent!
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Replying to @anglopremier
Does PerfectIt flag this as an error?
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Replying to @anglopremier
Are you thinking of South African English (shame! or shampies in Afrikaans)? A sinvergüenza is a shameless person.
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