Hi guys, 

I'm a newbie working on some translation projects in Literature field, and I found it really difficult in terms of using proper tenses. Thus, I want to ask for your opinions toward some matters regarding tenses. 

1. Which tenses should be used? Does it have to be past tense all the time? What if it is a fictional novel which the author had set the time in the future? 

2. The author sometimes participates in his own writing, which tenses we should use to translate his comments, thoughts or clarifications? 

3. Should we keep the dialogues between the characters in a natural way as the way we speak in reality? For example, can we use the contracted form of auxiliary verbs? 

4. If you know some books regarding rules in writing pieces of literature, please recommend. 

Thank you! 

Good day my friends! 

Most of us have been familiar with Autocorrect tools on our composing applications such as Microsoft Word, or Pages or our dear mobile phone. Some take advantages, some see it annoying. 

To me, it's good when I'm typing on my computer, it corrects my typos automatically. However, I wonder if it is a bad option I've chosen because  I'm going to form a bad typing habit gradually since I've repeated my typos again and again as my fingers become accustomed to wrong typing sequences. From another aspect, when I type with my phone, autocorrect will do my job and  it even replaces my word  which I intended to write with another word. This is annoying, right? Autocorrect has a dear friend called word prediction, another annoying/good thing. It suggests options for the words that we want to type or even a phrase. I think it doesn't help to learn vocabulary at all because you don't have to remember exactly those shining words or phrases! It has happened to me when I was trying to type in Korean. 

I want to heard from your ideas, friends.  My question is: Is Autocorrect good or bad for languages learners? 

Thank you for your contributions. 

Cheers, 

Tam. 

This is a riddle my friend asked me this afternoon. I think it's funny, so I bring it here. Here we go: A man spent 70 bucks to buy a picture, then he sold it at 80 bucks. After that, he bought the picture again for 90 bucks, then sold it one more time at 100 bucks. The question is, how much did he make in this affair?