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This question from Stone:"What does 'too close for comfort' mean in the following story (bracketed)? I think it means 'so dangerously close that it makes people feel uncomfortable'. Am I right?
This from Siemon:"I'm a sales man in an export company, my listening is so bad that i can't understand my customers, it's a big obstocal for me to do business.
What is Chinglish?Teacher Sun from Henan Province gives this definition:
"Chinglish is a language of communication developed in the classroom between Chinese (English-language) teachers and their students, a cant that no third parties understand."
This question from Ingrid, a Chinese learner of English:
"In the following conversation - a passage taken from Look Ahead, an English-teaching programme by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) - 'film' and 'movie' seem to have been put into different genres (categories).
Lest any of you think I exhibit your writings just to show you up, I promised last week to display a revised version of my own work to illustrate the benefit of rewriting.
Insofar as the English language is used as the only tool of communication between you and your English-speaking customers, and insofar as your communicating skills are not on a par with those of your partners, either you are more likely to be given a rough deal to begin with, or you are likely to get the wrong end of the stick yourself, and pay for it. Ask any player to play a game without knowing all the rules, and he'll tell you so.
While roaming the web in the small hours of Tuesday morning, I listened to Billie Holiday. She was crooning "Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky.
Here are a few questions from readers during the past week. Following each question are my comments. Identities of readers are concealed to spare blushes of the bashful.
William Baumol, who holds positions at both Princeton and New York University, has been laboring for years to come to a better understanding of entrepreneurs...
Every once in a while, I get a question I cannot answer off the cuff.
But some questions are so good that I don't mind doing research for a worthy reply - not that I want to be held as a paragon of patience, just that I find the extra work edifying and therefore worth my while. If you have an interesting question to ask, send it in. I won't mind going the extra mile in your behalf. In fact if it's interesting enough, I'll be off to work right away, no question asked.
This letter comes from Xuesi (in bracket are my comments)
As the discernable reader may recognize, "may", "help us" are there only to help it rhyme. I assure you we none of us will land in a habeas corpus situation from chattering about it here.
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