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Fun!
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"5. Plain Rings with RUNES on the inside. Avoid these like the PLAGUE.-Diana Wynne Jones Tough Guide To FantasyLand ...it's not much of a show if somebody doesn't suffer, and preferably at length. Suffering is beautiful in any case, and so is anguish; but as for loathing, and bitterness... I don't think they belong on the stage at all. - Isabella, I Gelosi |
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11-29-2008, 04:38 AM
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Indeed.
A final question for current page... Pete didn't find it at all amusing. or Pete didn't find it amusing at all. Glad to know. Gw Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 11-29-2008 at 05:02 AM. |
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11-29-2008, 07:28 AM
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In Swedish we have called "syftningsfel".
A sentens like this... The man, who had brown car, got a puncture. This alludes to the man, not the car. Is this phenomen called an Error of Allusion? |
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11-29-2008, 05:57 PM
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I'm afraid I can't answer the last question. I feel like there's a more technical name in english for that type of sentence where the main verb gets attatched to the wrong referent, but I can't remember what it is.
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"5. Plain Rings with RUNES on the inside. Avoid these like the PLAGUE.-Diana Wynne Jones Tough Guide To FantasyLand ...it's not much of a show if somebody doesn't suffer, and preferably at length. Suffering is beautiful in any case, and so is anguish; but as for loathing, and bitterness... I don't think they belong on the stage at all. - Isabella, I Gelosi |
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11-30-2008, 03:00 AM
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Thanks, WO!
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11-30-2008, 07:15 AM
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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. |
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11-30-2008, 07:57 AM
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Thanks, Sun-star!
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12-02-2008, 03:51 PM
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I'd say a "misplaced modifier" would be a better word for "syftningsfel".
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12-03-2008, 12:58 AM
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Thanks, Jon, too!
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12-04-2008, 07:17 PM
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Ich weiß nicht, was vor sich geht, aber ich dachte, ich könnte auch sagen, etwas in einer Sprache diffrient
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12-06-2008, 05:36 PM
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Are you studying German, Truth?
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02-13-2009, 03:46 PM
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Must... learn... Italian... o_O
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02-13-2009, 04:17 PM
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Si. Vada per essa. (long live Babelfish
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02-13-2009, 04:21 PM
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Io. Grazie mille!
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04-05-2009, 04:13 AM
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Im back at working on my hobby-project of translating this Swedish children's book to English.
Now here comes a sentence in which there is a word describing the way the top of the waves are behaving. Below lay the lake, still the colour of ink and the whitecapped waves were still hissing. Im not quite sure that hissing is the correct adjective to describe the behaviour of the whitcaps. Glad for any assistance you can give me. Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 04-05-2009 at 04:15 AM. |
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04-05-2009, 05:20 AM
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Murmuring would be something I would write. Or whispering.
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04-05-2009, 05:30 AM
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Thanks, Earn! much obliged.
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04-05-2009, 05:36 AM
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I think I would have indeed chosen the word hissing. Because that's exactly what the whitecaps do in my mind. "Hissing waves" generates some hundred hits on google. But maybe a native English speaker could have a say on this matter.
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04-05-2009, 05:43 AM
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thank you too, Jonathan.
Any input is most gratefully recieved. Sometimes I get stuck on minor words and matters of phrasing. |
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04-05-2009, 05:55 AM
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Here's another one:
(after a storm) The lake was now quite peaceful (or calm), not a stir could be seen on its (or the) surface. Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 04-05-2009 at 05:56 AM. |
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