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Why 'was' is used in : "Losing all hope was freedom. --- Fight Club(1999)" instead of 'is' ? - Losing all hope is freedom. - Losing all hope was freedom. Which one was better? ;-D Is it easy? Probably not for me. let me guess ... it depends on the the scene in the movie. A person is telling his story so using 'was' and therefore there's no problem at all. However, if 'was' actually means something then I need help. Thanks you!!!
9 ottobre 2017
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This too shall pass vs This too will pass

What's the difference between them? "This too shall pass" vs "This too will pass".


I am working in China where Youtube is inhibited, sorry.

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15 gennaio 2017
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If your department needs 10 employees but there were only 8, it is under ____ what? If your department needs 10 employees but there were only 8. Is there a general term of a formal phrase or a word to descript that situation in English? I would use "The office does not have enough manpower", "The department is under the needed resource of employee", "The department has a shortage of labor count", "The department has a shortage of labor heads." to describe that.
14 ottobre 2016
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How to find notebook entries that are not corrected yet Chinese is nowadays surprisingly the most viable 2'nd language to learn in the world. Look at the italki notebook entries, those that are written in Chinese are all answered by Language-Exchange participants with at least 3 corrections, probably in an hour after you posted it. In contrast, English entries are easily not answered or, if they were, few. I consider that could be due to that there's no way to screen notebook entries for which have zero corrections or am I the only one who doesn't know how?
12 ottobre 2016
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This corner on the earth is Sunday today ------------------------- This corner on the earth is Sunday today. ------------------------- I am from Taiwan, A small dot on the global map. You know it? ------------------------- Are you a native Egyptian? ------------------------- I am an engineer but not for TVs or household electronic products. I am a software engineer. ------------------------- I've graduated 8 months ago I was majoring in information systems. ------------------------- Are you enjoying your job ? Yes, working in a lab is always fun. ------------------------- What do you do in your spare time? I spend a lot of time in playing the board game named 'Go'. Have you heard about AlphaGo? ------------------------- I'm on the verge of the addiction to the Go game. Welcome to the world of being beaten. ------------------------- To learn a 2nd foreign language is very easy through an immoral way. hahahha immoral like what? Like to pirate a wonderful language course that doesn't need to read. Just listen and speak if only you know some English. ------------------------- I hope you a happy, healthy, and long life Thank you! And I wish the young and peaceful mind you already have always be with you. -------------------------
11 ottobre 2016
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I do not know Long ago, when Internet was not existing, in our Los Angelus office, a colleague, who couldn't speak Chinese and we knew that, claimed that he could answer any question in Chinese. He encouraged me to try him. With a big doubt, I did. And he answered "I don't know" in Mandarin in a funny accent but it was clear and correct in any respect. So then I knew that's actually the most useful phrase to learn first out of a foreign language.
11 ottobre 2016
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A snippet of a conversation Thank you, I am so happy with your compliments. Do you allow me to show them to my wife? To remind her that her husband is a wise man.
10 ottobre 2016
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An anecdote Long ago, my English teacher seemed to have told us that 'Anecdote' is not only an obscure story about a person like what dictionaries explain, but also someone's own theory that he believes is truth, while it may not, and is known by most people, while it isn't. For example, I believe something is true but that could be just an anecdote of mine. Am I correct?
8 ottobre 2016
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A non-significant miracle Several years ago I experienced a small miracle. My daughter lent my book to her friend without asking me. There were an argument between us when I criticized her behavior. After that I strangely fell into an endless bad mood I've never experienced before, it should have gone by the next day at worst. Until the third day, I couldn't live with it any more that I tried to call help from God. I spoke to the air assumed He was there, and said: 看你的看你的,真他媽甚麼鬼太難受了,拜託拜託! (Your turn, your turn. -- that means: time to demonstrate what You are capable of.-- Damn it! that's been too much. Please, please.) I didn't believe it would work in any way. But after a few seconds a sentence appeared in my mind that said: 你要是記得這是你的寶貝女兒,不論她幹了甚麼你都不會生氣的。(If only you still remember she's your beloved daughter, no matter what she does will never anger you.) I was shocked for a moment due to both what had happened and that the sentence itself was totally incorrect to me. But I soon realized that I did have put my experiences of bully onto my daughter with all the justice I wished and all the revenges I wanted. During those days when I looked at my daughter through my eyes what appeared in my mind was not my daughter. He's right! Oh my God! This is so difficult and also so easy. Then I felt the relief very much and let go of the once endless situation soon.
6 ottobre 2016
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Real story about an amazing mother goose I read this story months ago. It keep coming back to my mind. A police man was having his bagel in his patrol car by a park when something tapped the door. He found that was a goose. He gave it a piece of bagel with the thought that it wanted some food. But it turned away and waited for him. That was strange so he did follow the goose into the park to a place near the water where he finally found a baby goose who trapped itself in a balloon string. A mother goose can be attacking if you bother her children. The officer knows that so he called help (ha ha!) and a police madam finally came. He took a video that recorded the scene when the madam was releasing the baby goose while the mother kept herself a distance away crying for her child. What a story that touched me so much. The video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzkxXckgI0k&feature=player_embedded The story, http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/momma-goose-asks-officer-for-help-untangling-baby-from-balloon-string/ar-BBsWSrW
4 ottobre 2016
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