Místnost

English breakfast

Místnost má od 14:03:18  24. 08. 2002 pronajatou toomz

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Arian, vloženo 00:27:34  10. 11. 2011
	I guess I make too many mistakes to be able to say which are the ones that are the most prevalent in the texts I write... I will give it a thought and perhaps I will be able to tell you later :-)

Mivka, vloženo 20:31:16  09. 11. 2011
	Yep, strength is a tricky thing, because you tend to treat it same as height and weight :)) All of them are attributes, right? :) That's problematic for me too :)

Meridion, vloženo 20:25:43  09. 11. 2011
	I am so used to the phrase "th" that I have sometimes problems with the inverse order of these two letters (e.g in words daughter, right). On the other hand I often misspell word "strength" as "strenght". I don't know why. :-)

Mivka, vloženo 17:41:48  09. 11. 2011

What are your most common misspells? I have certain words which no matter how many times I see or write or try to remember I still screw up for the hundredth time. Not counting the fact, that I have certain personal issues with using conditionals (studied them a thousand times, didn't help) and I have never seen any reasonable grammar overview for English punctuation, there are two major problems I always forget. The first one is then and than (which is which, have the same problem in German with wenn and wann). The second one is receive. I simply can't absorb that it's spelled like this - I ALWAYS write recieve, it's just natural. Receipt is OK, but receive is just dreadful. How about you?

Arian, vloženo 18:08:01  09. 10. 2011

Hm, one of the silliest sentences I have ever encountered while doing a bit of simultaneous interpreting from Czech to English would most definitely be the one I did this morning; "Even though we've made a serious attempt to feed you up, you're going to drive home some fifteen hundred kilos lighter, nevertheless." Well, sometimes I wish people didn't know I spoke English (a bit, anyway)... Should it be so I wouldn't get asked to make a fool of myself when trying to formulate peculiar sentences on a moment's thought...

Arian, vloženo 16:42:23  09. 10. 2011
	Quadrix: Hm, really? Glad to see I got it, thanks :-)

Quadrix, vloženo 08:27:18  09. 10. 2011
	Arian: Ok, if I leave out of consideration your scientific approach, your answer is correct :o)

Arian, vloženo 16:33:26  08. 10. 2011
	I was just joking, of course :-) Okay, I admit, I was in the wrong (yet again) - take it as a proof of one genuinely simple fact: I don't have a GOOD sense of humour, I never had it and, presumably, I will never be able to acquire it, either :-)

Aditu, vloženo 16:30:50  08. 10. 2011
	*facts

Aditu, vloženo 16:30:36  08. 10. 2011
	Should you want to phrase riddles exactly, in a ... lets say "science way" that takes all these minor fact into account, there would be no riddles at all I believe.

Arian, vloženo 16:26:09  08. 10. 2011
	Mivka: They should be, though :-)

Mivka, vloženo 16:25:21  08. 10. 2011
	Arian, I'd really guess that facts like these are not the main point of most riddles :)

Arian, vloženo 16:20:06  08. 10. 2011
	Well, if it wasn't for the "stays in place" bit, I would think the answer could be "a river". But since the river bed tends to change a bit over the time, slowly but gradually, plus, should a flood come, it could burst its banks completely, I guess it is not the right answer... Otherwise, I don't have any other ideas.

Quadrix, vloženo 13:44:43  08. 10. 2011
	Let's try some riddle... Always running, stays in place Has a mouth, but not a face Has no lungs, but yet can roar Passageway without a door.

Arian, vloženo 14:05:46  02. 10. 2011
	Oh, I know that one as well, for a person who's slightly obsessed with Ireland, however, the one with "Miles" would always win the race. But the best joke ever is "Wenn ist das Nunstück git und slotermeyer...", anyway :-)

Aditu, vloženo 08:15:02  01. 10. 2011
	It's similar to the one with "Timboktoo"

Arian, vloženo 01:06:49  01. 10. 2011
	One of my favourites, what a pity one cannot successfully translate it :-(

Kroc, vloženo 21:09:45  30. 09. 2011
	ahahaha, thats bril!

verlit, vloženo 09:55:26  30. 09. 2011
	:-)) Miles from Dublin!

Arian, vloženo 00:59:26  30. 09. 2011

Even though it is not quite as funny as a real-life joke that involved my term paper being adorned with a sticky post-it-note that read: "Your command of the English language is a little eccentric indeed, very florid but not entirely grammatically correct," this joke reallly made me laugh: Three Irishmen, Paddy, Sean and Seamus, were stumbling home from the pub late one night and found themselves on the road which led past the old graveyard.. "Come have a look over here," says Paddy, "It's Michael O'Grady's grave, God bless his soul. He lived to the ripe old age of 87." "That's nothing," says Sean, "here's one named Patrick O'Toole, it says here that he was 95 when he died."! Just then, Seamus yells out, "Good God, here's a fella that got to be 145!" "What was his name?" asks Paddy. Seamus stumbles around a bit, awkwardly lights a match to see what else is written on the stone marker, and exclaims, "Miles, from Dublin."

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