For example, with friends. Some people use contractions often. Other sort of. In order to be able to understand someone speak informally. It's important. You understand contractions. You're going to hear for short dialogues with informal contacts. Lisa, and as you did the dialogue after this...
Temperatures will rise in and out of the freezing zone, and on occasion we’ll have to drag out the mittens, scarves, heavy coats and boots. But one would have to have been locked inside with the window shades drawn not to have noticed all the spring-like signs emerging outdoors of ...
Fair warning: It’s straight up pew-pew, underdog military, beat-the-evil-invader while losing friends and lovers along the way with a healthy helping of “Are You Trying To Lose This War?!” thrown in. Honestly, it’s the curmudgeonly old MC who’s given a new lease on life (and...
“There” could be anywhere: on the couch of which I no longer remember the texture, in the booth of a romantic restaurant facing someone in a wishful way, or vacationing with friends where sunscreen is the highest priority. Some daydreams are innocent and I let myself get lost in those ...
Sláinte, my friends! The origins of Irish slang Irish slang has a wild mix of origins that will make your head spin! It all starts with the Irish language, or Gaeilge, which brought a lot of words and phrases into the mix. Then there’s Ireland’s history, with all its fights for ...
to the hospital in a car that was half its normal height; pieces of building had crushed it. Mohamad lost his leg that night, and we had a baby girl in his hospital room the next morning. Because of our dear Mohamad, our baby lived.” (the temperatures in Hatay were below freezing)...
I’ve worked with fellow divers and a Cambodian family to build house, celebrated the Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival with friends in Singapore, and endured torrential rains in the forests on Mt. Kinabalu. I’ve attended weddings in New Delhi, and funerals in the US. I’ve ridden calmly to ...
I guess the thing about it was that when you logged on, you were with friends. There was almost a warm feeling as the game loaded up and you checked out who was online and you saw familiar names talking away to each other. People helped each other out in the game and actually asked...
discouraged her from sharing her story, Jackie tells me with a pained look, including the trusted UVA dean to whom Jackie reported her gang-rape allegations more than a year ago. On this deeply loyal campus, even some of Jackie’s closest friends see her going public as tantamount to ...