You okay? I thought this was just plain wrong English, but now I read it in an American English novel. Is this "You okay" a correct way of asking if someone is alright? I would always put the verb in there, like: Are you okay? You're okay? or Are you alright? Who dropped the verb?

What is the meaning of: 'have both borne out the value'? What is the meaning of: 'have both borne out the value'? It comes from this sentence in a technical paper: <<Experience and recent research have both borne out the value of architecture in software development in general, as well as its value in sustaining high velocity and change resiliency in Agile projects.>> From the technical context, I think it means something like: Experience and recent research have confirmed the value of .... Is that correct?I think something got translated to html comment.... Again the sentence: Experience and recent research have both borne out the value of architecture in software development in general, as well as its value in sustaining high velocity and change resiliency in Agile projects.

How do I get my notebook entry corrected?

Ah....I feel a little bit ashamed and like a begger, but I am rather frustrated that I wrote one notebook entry, just one. But it did not get corrected. Is it too long perhaps? If there is anything I can do back for you please tell me. Also, you do not really have to be a native speaker. If you are an advanced student and see a mistake in it, feel free to comment. And a quick glace would be fine, you do not have to correct all style errors, just the real grammar failures is fine. It is this one:

 

http://www.italki.com/entry/613142

 

Any one else got problems getting corrected by the way?

Is writing a short notebook entry better to get corrected?

Am I perhaps just not active enough helping others to expect the favour in return. That could be it. My apologies.

What is the word for times in Korean? I mean like in one time, two times, three times. So number of occasions something happened. Not time as in period passed, the time of a clock. I cannot get my on line dictionary to understand me in this. It should be simple though.

Kitty corner, diagonally opposite First Question: What is kitty corner? Googling I got to: "situated diagonally opposite to someone or something". Ah, okay then what is meant by diagonally opposite? Perhaps the most far away corner in a square, if you are yourself in a corner of that square too? Please confirm. Here is the sentence from a US-English novel: Tolland pointed kitty corner across the dome to a far wall where a press area was being set up. Second Question: Is this perhaps American colloquial speech? I never heard of it, and I have got most of my English from the BBC, British drama and school where they taught me explicitly British English. Would anyone in the UK understand this.?

The turn in for example an athletic track? How would you call the turn, loop, bend or whatever in a sports track. For example athletics, but also in indoor cycling and ice skating.? I wondered how to translate this in my notebook entry "The 1500". And it is not corrected so far, so I am really curious. I think it is called 'the turn' in a track but I am not sure. Googling I could not find a clear answer.

The 1500 Last Saturday I have run a 1500 meter. It was for the first time I have done that. So I had one practice run and I thought I would do the first 600 relatively slow, and then give it my full. I was put in the first run, since I should be one of the fastest of my group. (Which tells more about my group, than about my condition actually.) The first round I could clearly see three runners running away from me. These are the fanatics, I cannot follow them. So I stayed in pass with a group of four other runners, one of them being my trainer. The first 700 meter, hence one three-quarters of a round and a full round, even that group of four gained distance on me. But I thought, I should not overrun myself. I even started to give it my full a little later than planned. After 700 meter, not six. But in that third round I regained contact with the group again, and felt I had still some more to give. At the beginning of the last round I had contact. In the following loop I overtook them. I had more, but in the turn my trainer blocked me. Of all people! I had to move side ways into the second track, which cost me quite a bit of force. Then I gave it all in the last 300. It went well. In the end I had gained almost ten seconds on three of the four in the group. Only my trainer... That trainer overtook me in the last 50 meters of the track, the same that blocked me in the curve. Next year I will beat him. For your interest my time: 6:55.59 and I am fifty years old so really a veteran. Trainer had 6:54.94..

Is this a typo? "to be chair the panel" I have read this on a news site. Either this sentence is grammar wise incorrect, or my English is not good enough to understand its construction. Please read: UN Watch, a non-governmental organisation, revealed the appointment of the Saudi ambassador to the UN. Trad was elected in June to be chair the panel that oversees the UN’s Human Rights Council, with the power to select personnel for key human rights roles around the world. Should "to be chair the panel" not be either "to chair the panel" or "to be chair of the panel"? But it is from an UK English news site, so I am presuming they got their grammar right. Here is a link to the full article: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/09/20/saudi-arabia-un-ambassador-human-rights_n_8166972.html