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04-Dec-2006, 03:23
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Current Location: Phnom Penh First Language: English Member Type: English Teacher | |  Re: Active and Passive Vocabulary
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Originally Posted by MikeNewYork  It's similar to "bloody twits" being Brits.  | We now have NYC Rhyming Slang.  |
04-Dec-2006, 04:40
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Current Location: New York First Language: American English Member Type: Academic | | Re: Active and Passive Vocabulary
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Originally Posted by Tdol We now have NYC Rhyming Slang. | You have to watch the competition. |
04-Dec-2006, 11:08
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Current Location: Moscow,Russia First Language: Armenian Member Type: English Teacher | | Re: Active and Passive Vocabulary
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Originally Posted by curmudgeon It's a complete surprise to the rest of the world that the Americans write the date in the format "month/day/year" instead of "day/month/year" like everyone else. So "9/11" is in fact September the eleventh, and not the ninth of november. Even more ludicrous is the practice of writing the time as "minute:hour:second", this causes enormous problems if you work in an organisation which must function multinationally. So much confusion is caused by the crackpot American date and time formats. | Really? I haven't paid attention. We write day\month\year. It's really intersting. Are there any strange differences like this? |
04-Dec-2006, 11:25
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Current Location: New York First Language: American English Member Type: Academic | | Re: Active and Passive Vocabulary
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Originally Posted by Harry Smith Really? I haven't paid attention. We write day\month\year. It's really intersting. Are there any strange differences like this? | Obviously, curmudgeon cannot tell time. |
05-Dec-2006, 06:06
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Current Location: Moscow,Russia First Language: Armenian Member Type: English Teacher | | Re: Active and Passive Vocabulary
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Originally Posted by MikeNewYork Obviously, curmudgeon cannot tell time. | What way of telling the time is popular in the States: Half past seven or seven thirty?  |
05-Dec-2006, 09:44
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Current Location: New York First Language: American English Member Type: Academic | | Re: Active and Passive Vocabulary
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Originally Posted by Harry Smith What way of telling the time is popular in the States: Half past seven or seven thirty? | Both. In Europe it is "the sun's shadow crosses the little line between the 7 and the 8". |
05-Dec-2006, 19:38
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Current Location: Moscow,Russia First Language: Armenian Member Type: English Teacher | | Re: Active and Passive Vocabulary
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Originally Posted by MikeNewYork Both. In Europe it is "the sun's shadow crosses the little line between the 7 and the 8". | And how about the date? Do you really write month\day\year? |
05-Dec-2006, 21:45
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Current Location: New York First Language: American English Member Type: Academic | | Re: Active and Passive Vocabulary
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Originally Posted by Harry Smith And how about the date? Do you really write month\day\year? | Yes we do. We also say September 11th not 11th September. |
07-Dec-2006, 19:08
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Originally Posted by MikeNewYork Yes we do. We also say September 11th not 11th September. | It's the worst date I have ever heard.  |
07-Dec-2006, 19:11
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Current Location: New York First Language: American English Member Type: Academic | | Re: Active and Passive Vocabulary
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Originally Posted by Harry Smith It's the worst date I have ever heard. | I'm not very fond of it either, anymore. | | |
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