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[Floyd]

Ilikewhales, on 09 November 2010 - 01:05 PM, said:

Ain’t there a plural for person (one person, two persons)?

Or is it “people” when it is more than one person?

I have heard both used, I think persons is usually used in law and government.

[Dopamino]

No one really says persons; people is fine pretty much any time.

[pax]

homework correction, don't really know what my teacher wants

"after waiting for some minutes it started raining, ..."  - overall sentence construction


"Soon it turned out that this person did not only not fit with my desired appearance ..." - wrong word
i knew that it would't fit, but i couldn't come up with any other solution. i wanted to say, that the person does not look like what "i" wished for at all.


thx

[Black Cat]

"Die Person entsprach nicht meinen Erwartungen"?  - "The person didn't meet my expectations", maybe?

Not that I'm really qualified to give language advice, I just like to meddle.  

But maybe this is helpful:

http://www.dict.cc/

It's a pretty nice English/German online dictionary.

[pax]

Black Cat, on 12 November 2010 - 05:58 PM, said:

"Die Person entsprach nicht meinen Erwartungen"?  - "The person didn't meet my expectations", maybe?

Not that I'm really qualified to give language advice, I just like to meddle.  

But maybe this is helpful:

http://www.dict.cc/

It's a pretty nice English/German online dictionary.

more like "Die Person entsprach nicht dem Aussehen, das ich erwartet hatte", but i think i should correct it with using another word...

i know that dictionary i prefer leo, though

[pax]

another question:

is "Educationtheoretical Approaches to Teaching" english? any other ideas of what that subject could be called in english?

[Dopamino]

Nope, "Educationtheoretical" isn't a word. What's it mean? Like new ways of teaching that people experiment with?

[Skaz]

I imagine it's meant to say 'Education: Teoretical approaches to teaching'.

[pax]

okay, thanks, i guess i can use that!

the german word for it is "Bildungstheoretisch", which means something like theory of education, only used as an adjective...
the whole course's called "Bildungstheoretische Zugänge zum Lehrberuf", which leads to another problem, the term Lehrberuf doesn't really exist in english...so i translated the rest with "approaches to teaching"
i need it for my statement of purpose, 'cause the nice lady at the international office told me to include the courses i've been taking this year...

edit:
are those sentences correct?:

At the moment I am studying English and history to be a teacher at secondary schools and I want to seize the chance of attending university in another country as soon as possible.

semester or term? or is both possible?

prefer English to German or prefer it over German?

The city and its surrounding does/do not only offer....

...and periods of immigration which have had influence on an interesting dialect...

Speaking of universities, ... University and ... University equally captured my attention.

teaching preparation

to profit from something

My curiousness about experiencing unknown areas, ...


i'd be grateful if someone can tell me if those sentences are right

[pax]

okay...another question...
i have to analyse "the world is too much with us" by william wordsworth, but i do not really have an idea of what "up-gathered" could mean. here's the poem:

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; (1)
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, (2)
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus (3) rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton (4) blow his wreathed horn.

[Ilikewhales]

"The inhibition threshold for violence recedes..."

Is "recedes" the right word in this context?

[Black Cat]

I'm not sure, but I would probably rather try to build a sentence where I could use "to drop" or "to lower" instead.