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Showing posts with label English language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English language. Show all posts
Saturday, December 24, 2016

Once upon a time, not so long ago, “radical” was a lovely word

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Up until I left Australia at the age of 21, “ radical ” was in my mind an objective term designating some kind of root , widely employed in ...
Thursday, December 8, 2016

Pair of simple English words that utterly confuse the French

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Here's an example of a confusion I found yesterday:   Plantu's  presidential candidates both regret their years spent applying...
Saturday, April 16, 2016

We're in France, we spik French

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I've always been surprised and amused whenever I discover, for the Nth time, that French people are generally quite incompetent in Engli...
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William Skyvington
Gamone, Choranche, France
After working in various computing jobs, I retired to an old farm property in the Vercors mountain range, on the edge of the French Alps, where I spend my time writing, playing with the Internet and looking out upon the slopes in the company of my dog Fitzroy, admiring wonders created by the Big Bang and Evolution.
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