When I hear the great singers, I am ashamed to even sing in the shower. But I do it anyway. I can pretend for a few seconds that I am Fritz Wunderlich.
@tchrist gah. One would think squirrel, above all things, were exceptionally easy for a German to pronounce.
Those videos never have a point, though. Obviously they cherrypick the people who were the worst of the bunch.
Also they pick stupid words. They should pick something really easy, like handy, which also happens not only to exist, but be an extremely common word in German, and then cringe at the difference. That is some real fun.
Anyway, the way I remember it, Islanders (or was it Finns?) did much, much worse with squirrel.
So, once Putin's current term is up, is he going to star in a TV show or maybe turn himself into an amusement park and charge admission to watch him do amazing feats with his shirt off?
I know that I watched the last episode a couple weeks ago. It was quite obviously the last. With the title melody and the insert "#sixseasonsandamovie" at the end.
The problem for Community now is the fact that someone else stepped in and got their grubby fingerprints all over the story line. Things happened which never should have happened. And now we can't unsee all that. So it will be interesting what Dan Harmon does to resurrect the spirit of the first three seasons. Maybe he will fail.
The last three episodes of Season Three were kind of an attempt at stemming a premature hemmhorage. Harmon knew he was off the show and was trying to give some kind of closure, I guess.
Seriously, I don't know where the show is going to go now. They've been picked up for ten episodes, which in network TV is like a kiss from your sister.
So anyway. The principal, of course, spoke very true words when he said somewhere in the last five episodes of season three, "does anyone even study here anymore" or something to that extent.
It was quite funny, of course, but in retrospect also quite sad.
"I want to visit clubs with attractive women"
can be interpreted in two ways:
I want to visit clubs myself, but the clubs I visit should have
attractive women.
I want to take attractive women to clubs; the clubs themselves may
or may not already have attractive women.
Is there a name ...
@JohanLarsson Yeah. It got a little cringe-worthy at the end, but at least it ended when it needed to. The U.S. version was actually better, IMO, than the original, but it suffered from going on way longer than it should have. Imagine the UK version losing Ricky Gervais and still trying to muddle through.
Haha, and of course the very first scene in the fourth episode is how much Shirley sucks and how Jeff wouldn't walk over the campus with her listening to her "isn't it a nice day" crap.
Yeah. But beware: they fuck with things they shouldn't fuck with. Like relationships between the study-mates. What keeps the whole thing going is that they don't fall into relationships. It's like a roulette wheel where the ball never drops. Once it does, it's bound to come up 0.
@Ricky I understand your consternation, but please understand ours, which is that this site is supposed to be about academic-level questions of English and its nuance. Every day we fight the flood of drive-by question-askers who treat the site like it is some kind of novelty forum and then shout abuse at us when we point them to the rules. If your question is so simple, it is not on-topic. If it is not so simple, you have to demonstrate why. If you don't want to do the research yourself first, try Yahoo Answers. — KitFox2 mins ago
It just seems a shame that with all those ASPARAGUS WANTED signs posted in the windows of all the finer restaurants, that your one stalk should have gone unemployed.
I am a teacher of English with 25 years experience, with a considerable reputation around these parts I might add. I would never consider subscribing to something as 'exclusive' and anally clenched as the purveyors of this laughable site seem to be...
I want to express how very [attentive/pedantic/careful/obsessed] I am about storing my loose LEGO parts. No direct sunlight, or any sunlight at all. Stuff like that.
I’m content to have found no hits with the literal in French.
And yet anal clenching can be an extremely useful physiological skill at times, don't you think? — Sven Yargs10 mins ago
People's ideas about grammar often tend to lend themselves to such behavioral phenomena. People's ideas about grammar are, for pretty much everybody in Anglophone systems, received from their English teachers. So be careful about pointing fingers, is all. — John Lawler6 mins ago
"I want to visit clubs with attractive women"
can be interpreted in two ways:
I want to visit clubs myself, but the clubs I visit should have
attractive women.
I want to take attractive women to clubs; the clubs themselves may
or may not already have attractive women.
Is there a name ...
I am a teacher of English with 25 years experience, with a considerable reputation around these parts I might add. I would never consider subscribing to something as 'exclusive' and anally clenched as the purveyors of this laughable site seem to be...
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