@M.A.R. I didn't bother to read any of the comments. The answer would have sufficed. I see your point in raising commenting, SMH

@GWarner I guess every random visitor from HNQ is an English expert so they take it upon themselves to nitpick a frigging "no doubt" which isn't even related to what the answer is trying to say

It's annoying on other sites, it's torture on ELL

@M.A.R.

@M.A.R. I completely understand that. I perused a HNQ, read the question. Formulated an answer, read comments of OP and others have a commenting fight. EDitted their poor grammar in title and body. got slammed and asked to retuern it to the original...

Roll my eyes....

A moderator went in.. deleted all the comments. Got sefveral good answers and still doesn't like any of them.

So much for answering a request for critique their photoshop work

@M.A.R. I have noticed many times

people who are not even active

will now and then drop comments like bombs

they aren't even established users on the site

but love poking people

happens mostly when a question gets too hot

across the network

all the bugs come flying

@CowperKettle Oh, is it the one whom you dated in the past? I thought you were going to marry her or something. =)

@Jasper No, not that. Olli is a friend ))

Olli likes to wear blue, so I gave her a blue bicycle helmet and a blue mask

She has finished reading Bradbury's Martian Chronicles three days ago. I gave her the book as a gift, it's a two-language book, one page in English, the page just across it in Russian.

We correspond in English

I told her not to pay attention to grammar, and concentrate instead on learning English words, as many as possible

So I don't correct her grammar when we correspond

If a person memorizes enough words to be able to read, the grammar will mend itself by and by

@CowperKettle excellent choice of reading material

@ColleenV Yes, and it's very popular, thus the Russian translation is superb

‘I have to say that I much prefer the Russian cover art for sci-fi books over the US ones

They are more artistic usually

The US versions are very pedestrian in comparison

The French cover art is too abstract, I don’t get it at all

Well at least for the older books. I am almost exclusively listening to audiobooks these days

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Mostly punctuation marks in answer (36): Where did you go or where have you gone? by jvsny on ell.SE

Interesting. There’s an entire reddit dedicated to bad sci-fi cover art r/badscificovers

@CowperKettle I have a recommendation for Olli to learn English. I use the Assimil courses which come in many different base languages and target languages. In this case, she should use base language Russian and target language English. The Sans Peine or With Ease course takes a beginner to B2 of CEFR theoretically. assimil.com/collection-sans-peine/… If possible get the CDs that go with the book.

A Sans Peine or With Ease course usually comes with 4 audio CDs or 1 MP3 CD, and recently, they inroduced a USB flash drive for their latest offerings.

The page I linked to has the ISBN for the recordings. What is special about the Assimil courses is that they contain a lot of clear audio that is completely in the target language.

Other courses make the mistake of including a lot of instructions in the base language in the recordings, thus interfering with the learning process!

Professor Alexander Arguelles, a hyperpolyglot who speaks over 60 languages fluently, highly recommends the Assimil courses. And so do I.

@ColleenV ell.stackexchange.com/a/246777/77766

Word for educated ignorant: english.stackexchange.com/questions/533508/…

@Jasper Thank you!

@ColleenV I also like Russian cover art very much

@CowperKettle In case it was not a typo, it is "bowel" and not "bower".