> It’s probably not a matter of if the President will be personally investigated. It’s a matter of when.

(link)

Interesting construct.

I thought "whether" was okay, but "if"!???

Greetings!

@Man_From_India I can't believe this! The boy has just been found! He was found asleep in a barrel, 7 km from the site where he got lost. Doctors are taking care of him.

> Four-year old Dima found alive

I took part in the search on June 10th

He spent 4 or 5 days without food

This bag is closed using a drawstring

Could we call it a drawstring bag?

I'm trying to translate a news piece about a plant that makes "drawstring polyethylene potato bags"

@snailplane He probably has lung inflammation and has several tick bites.

If he catches tick-borne encephalitis, it would be very hard..

The death rate is 2% on average, but 10% to 20% of sufferers get permanent nerve and brain damage.

I bet he is not immunized..

So it's still tough sledding ahead for him

Hello!!!

@snailplane : what does legacy on the line mean ?

Dam's absence is really worrying :-(.

thanks :-)

> International multicenter comparative randomized double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial of efficacy and safety of multiple subcutaneous injection of different doses of the DRUG NAME drug product to patients with moderate and severe plaque psoriasis.

I wonder if this preposition "to" is okay

@snailplane They've injected him with immunoglobulin and sent the ticks that bit him to be tested.

And they are treating him in an intensive care unit. Now we only have to wait about 5-7 days and hope he does not get encephalitis.

He is pathologically shy. He got lost because he stumbled upon the wrong tent, saw unknown grownups and got scared.

Not talkative, withdrawn.

@CowperKettle Somebody's in the ICU; hope he gets well soon.

Yes, a small boy

> John Silver, Vice President of (on?) Research and Development

Not sure about the preposition

Maybe for?

@CowperKettle I would use 'of'

It's like Prime Minister of England or CEO of Hasbro

@snailplane Right.

And thanks for the further explanation.

@CowperKettle Don't know why this made me so happy. Hope he emerges OK from the whole traumatic experience.

nods

@ColleenV Thank you!

@snailplane I thought everyone might find the negation in this sentence I came across at work interesting "Volunteers are not paid because they're worthless, but because they're priceless." I would expect the form "I'm not paid for being pretty, but for being smart." Volunteers are unpaid, not "not paid" I think...

@CowperKettle You're welcome! I'm very sad to see another incident of peaceful protesters being rounded up.

Those young ladies in the pictures you posted don't look like dangerous criminals to me :(

@snailplane Oh I understood it, but I'm a nit-picker :)

The sad thing is that it is on a story celebrating all the volunteer work that we do for the community, so it's getting passed around as a bit of marketing material.

I'm pretty sure everyone that sees it will understand the thought though

It's a quote from one of the volunteers, so I guess it would be wrong to "fix" the spoken English

@snailplane Thanks, I think that might work.