Last week’s question was What sounds better to you?
This has to be done by Friday (88%, 7 Votes)
This has to be done until Friday (12%, 1 Votes)
If it is done until Friday, somebody is doing it day and night until Friday rolls around.
By Friday just means it’ll be ready on Friday.
This week we ask: [...]
I woke up this morning thinking about the debate on this blog on Westerwelle. It seems to me that this is an interesting case of a person losing face in public because he is being forced to speak English. BTW, I think the discussion has showed that both sides lost face: Westerwelle was most obviously [...]
Last week the Grammar Guru question was: Which two are correct?
Many emails are written needlessly. (100%, 9 Votes) = correct
Many emails are needless. (67%, 6 Votes) = correct
Many emails are written needless. (0%, 0 Votes) = incorrect
Many emails are needlessly. (0%, 0 Votes) = incorrect
Why didn’t everybody choose “Many emails are [...]
Guido Westerwelle made the news recently as a result of the way he responded to a reporter of the BBC. Refusing to answer the question placed in English, he insisted that questions be asked in German, as this is the language spoken here. When the question was then translated, his response added insult to injury, [...]
Last week, 9 out of 11 chose “take a break” over “make a break”. In German “Let’s take a break” is “Machen wir doch mal eine Pause.” When pairs of words in different languages are very similar but have different meanings, they are called “false friends”. Similar collocations (or word partnerships) don’t always mean the [...]
What Is Intelligence, Anyway?
by Isaac Asimov
What is intelligence, anyway? When I was in the army, I received the kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160. No one at the base had ever seen a figure like that, and for two hours they made a big fuss [...]
Yesterday I ran a workshop for English teachers at VW in Wolfsburg who are having trouble adapting the coursebook they are using for their mixed level courses. Before they get started on the given tasks, they have to pre-teach the more challenging vocabulary. The coursebook comes with great texts that can be exploited, along with [...]
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