I was faced with comments like “The logo is not right. The brand name is too difficult to pronounce. The collection is not for the season.” So, slowly, I developed a few clear sharp questions to counter debate. For example, when someone asks if my collection is for summer or winter...
There are many ways of answering the question of how good your Chinese is, and all of them are fraught with problems. Naturally, if we want to do anything useful with the answer, it needs to be more detailed than “pretty good” or “almost fluent”; that simply won’t cut it. There...
We don’t necessarily have to associate the speaker of the poem with Gouri himself, but whoever he is, he seems to be some kind authority figure – after all, “all kinds of people” seem to be asking him how he’s doing. The “all will be well” he pronounces does a bit of a ...
To prove that, let me tell you: I was mentioning you to my husband, who is NOT a word person. He is mathematical and cannot even pronounce all his words correctly. But when I mentioned your name, he said, “Is she the one who draws all those sunny cartoons?” Sometimes it’s about...
is kind of hard to pronounce. ronald reagan: my oldest friends still call me “dutch.” e.m.: that sounds overfamiliar, sir, like calling mr. roosevelt “teddy.” theodore roosevelt: ( stiffly. ) an outrageous impertinence. e.m.: i was wondering what you each think of our current ...
Pronounce v. 发音 Pronunciation n. 发音 ▪Spikes n. 猛增/尖峰 ) The size of the increase shouldn’t have come as a shock, says Jean Twenge, a co-author of the study and a professor of psychology at San Diego State University. “In some ways, this is a perfect storm for mental-hea...
I’m changing my screen name from DR, which isn’t really pronounceable and which I keep forgetting anyway. Agricola was the father-in-law of Tacitus, whom the historian put forth as proof of the possibility of being an honorable man in the dishonorable age of the emperor Domitian. Posted...
to describe pain). But although this term could be adopted as a scientific one that addresses the physiology of itch, it is not useful clinically. The term has other problems as well. Like pruritus, it is not easy to pronounce. In the end it is also rather too broad, and does not...
They can also choose toeducatethemselves a little bit, reading an article or brushing up on how to pronounce the Atlanta victims’ names. You bet that Asians will notice, and then there’s an affinity. So it doesn’t take rocket science. That’s why I think people don’t do it, ...