Author Topic: English-to-English translation (Read 30308 times)

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #50 on:** April 13, 2011, 04:49:06 PM »

It's practiced, as in done, like when you practice law or practice medicine, or if you are a practical nurse. A practical joke is something you do, not something you say.

Jonathon · « **Reply #51 on:** April 13, 2011, 05:08:21 PM »

What she said.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #52 on:** April 13, 2011, 05:53:18 PM »

I see, I see.

Kate Boots · « **Reply #53 on:** April 14, 2011, 12:24:22 PM »

In theatre, if we have a working light on stage where you can see the source - like a lamp that is actually used and works - rather than just the regular theatre lighting, we refer to it as a "practical light".

Amilia · « **Reply #54 on:** July 02, 2011, 12:24:59 AM »

You all have probably already seen this as it had almost 7,000,000 hits before I discovered it, but just in case:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYmrg3owTRE&feature=related

According to this quiz, I am more familiar with British slang than American slang.

rivka · « **Reply #55 on:** July 02, 2011, 10:03:01 PM »

Ditto, and I like country music (from which I theoretically could have recognized all three of the "American" ones).

pooka · « **Reply #56 on:** July 02, 2011, 10:48:45 PM »

That led me to the 21 accents lady.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #57 on:** August 12, 2011, 02:48:58 PM »

Props to those who know what "to tesselate" or "tesselation" means, without looking it up. I didn't know the word to use it when I could have, but it's kinda nice to have a word for this concept.

Porter · « **Reply #58 on:** August 12, 2011, 03:17:23 PM »

It's a pretty common word in my field.

rivka · « **Reply #59 on:** August 12, 2011, 03:21:43 PM »

And among mathematicians, so I know it too.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #60 on:** August 12, 2011, 03:59:01 PM »

Well props to you both!

rivka · « **Reply #61 on:** August 12, 2011, 04:24:28 PM »

I can't take too much credit for words I picked up just by having the parents I do.

Marianne Dashwood · « **Reply #62 on:** August 12, 2011, 11:53:21 PM »

I learned it in geometry class, and also use it occasionally because I'm enraptured with drawing patterns in Adobe Illustrator.

… did you by chance learn this word recently from whitewhine.com?

BlackBlade · « **Reply #63 on:** August 13, 2011, 07:58:29 AM »

Quote from: Marianne Dashwood on August 12, 2011, 11:53:21 PM

… did you by chance learn this word recently from whitewhine.com?

You caught me.

Porter · « **Reply #64 on:** August 13, 2011, 12:19:52 PM »

20,000 demerits.

pooka · « **Reply #65 on:** August 15, 2011, 05:43:10 AM »

Yesterday I caught myself expanding the use of "silent" as a transitive verb. I think I started using it that way because when I ask people to press the mute button on the baby's monitor, "silence it" sounds too severe for some reason, and when I say "mute it" I have to play several rounds of "what?" with my younger children. So yesterday we wanted the GPS on even though we weren't going to follow its instructions and so I said "I'm just going to silent her." And then I laughed at myself.

The GPS assumes you will never get stopped at stoplights, which makes it pretty freaking useless in my opinion.

rivka · « **Reply #66 on:** August 15, 2011, 07:45:57 AM »

Quote from: pooka on August 15, 2011, 05:43:10 AM

The GPS assumes you will never get stopped at stoplights, which makes it pretty freaking useless in my opinion.

The Genuine · « **Reply #67 on:** August 15, 2011, 09:12:32 AM »

I don't get that either. I've found GPS and online mapping sites to be pretty accurate at estimating travel times on roads with lights.

Porter · « **Reply #68 on:** August 15, 2011, 09:15:01 AM »

My GPS is a little on the conservative side -- on a trip of half an hour, I usually get there 3-5 minutes earlier than it estimates near the beginning of the trip.

pooka · « **Reply #69 on:** August 18, 2011, 02:51:57 PM »

It's a garmin nuvi if that makes any difference.

rivka · « **Reply #70 on:** August 18, 2011, 02:57:42 PM »

So is mine.

pooka · « **Reply #71 on:** August 18, 2011, 04:09:37 PM »

It wanted us to spend 4.2 miles on a lighted road that has a modern style freeway running parallel, is all. They have the same speed limit, I guess.

Porter · « **Reply #72 on:** August 24, 2011, 09:28:18 AM »

Here's an interesting bit of English. The person who wrote this was an old Appalachia hillbilly banjo player.

Jonathon · « **Reply #73 on:** August 24, 2011, 09:32:36 AM »

I see stuff like that all the time at work when authors quote from original sources like the Joseph Smith Papers or pioneer journals. The stuff we see in LDS lesson manuals has been cleaned up considerably, but the truth is that probably most people back then were terrible writers.

pooka · « **Reply #74 on:** August 24, 2011, 10:12:37 AM »

And that has changed? If you look at the average comments section of a website, for instance. Unless you just meant that this person doesn't spell for whatever reason. Maybe it's a ploy to get you to forget about the completion of the banjo and pray the get your street address right.