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Hi Alan,
You'd better not give a penny for 'our' (all the subscribers) thoughts. Don't forget we are passing through recession. Even an imaginary penny may send you busking.
Well, I enjoyed going through your mail as usual and learnt a lot of idiomatic phrases.
Cheers!
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| #3 (permalink) Tue Feb 09, 2010 13:10 pm It all adds up |
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| Sona Sircar wrote: |
Hi Alan,
You'd better not give a penny for 'our' (all the subscribers) thoughts. |
Hello Sona,
I think, itīd make Alan a great fortune if he returned always just a penny to each writer who added his tuppence (two pence) before.
Anyway, letīs grant him that.
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| #4 (permalink) Sun Feb 14, 2010 18:21 pm It all adds up |
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Hello Alan!
What a nice essay!
I learned too much from that essay. Thank you very much! |
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| #5 (permalink) Tue Feb 16, 2010 11:32 am It all adds up |
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Hi Alan,
I perhaps enjoyed reading your mail and got meaningful information.
Thanks
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| #6 (permalink) Mon Mar 22, 2010 22:22 pm It all adds up |
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salamo alikom , hi sir Alan..
It is a pleasure to me that i recieve your essays in my box... i 've learned many things from your writings ... may god bless you back ...salamo alikom |
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| #7 (permalink) Mon Mar 22, 2010 23:06 pm It all adds up |
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| by the way ..what does " It all adds up " i looked for it meaning , but no way ...please , would you like to break it down to me , and use it and an expamle if you want ... thanks alot ... |
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| #8 (permalink) Mon Mar 22, 2010 23:55 pm It all adds up |
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Hi Pacific, Alan has already explained this in his essay here: 'Perhaps I should close now although I do hope as the heading said: It all adds up (It all makes sense).'
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| #9 (permalink) Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:05 am It all adds up |
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Hi Pacific,
Yes, it does mean 'It all makes sense'. This suggests that you have added everything together and you get the right answer. It is often used when you find a solution to a problem.
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| #10 (permalink) Sat Mar 27, 2010 5:09 am It all adds up |
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You are wonderful Alen.
Alen, Should we receive an email when you are posting a new newsletter? I have registered for receiving the newsletters through the emails, but I just arrived on or two of them. I found the rest newsletter on the newsletter-forum.
Could you please guide me to receive your latest newsletters?
Thank you in advance.
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| #11 (permalink) Sat Mar 27, 2010 9:32 am It all adds up |
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Hi Salivan,
You should receive the newsletter automatically.
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| #12 (permalink) Sat Mar 27, 2010 10:01 am It all adds up |
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Hello Alan,
Great essay. It is very refreshing to read the way idioms are used with a little twist. I am always the one for idioms and figurative language. A friend of mine once said that idiom is a "lost art of communication". Well, if that is the case, then I think you have re-discover this art.
I have decided to subscribe to the newsletter with your essays. So next time you publish an essay, please count me in.
Regards,
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| #13 (permalink) Sat Mar 27, 2010 10:30 am It all adds up |
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Hi,
Glad you liked the essay. There's a perverse part of me that always links 'idiom' with 'idiot' mainly because they both have the same word origin 'made one's own' 'one's own' simply because it's virtually impossible to explain an idiom in your own language to someone else in their language. It's truly idiotic. And that brings me back to my old friend, Bill Shakespeare who was the king of the idiom as here when he's talking about human life:
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Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing. |
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Hi,
Nice essay Alan, it is good you include collocations between the story.In either text - only story or only grammar there is a boring point but in this case there is variety.
It is not just an accustomed story!
Anyway, I've learned "count on" = "rely on" , account = bill and the person who is operating with money - accountant, his responsibility - accountability.Helpful really. |
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| #15 (permalink) Sat Mar 27, 2010 16:39 pm It all adds up |
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| Alan wrote: |
Hi,
Glad you liked the essay. There's a perverse part of me that always links 'idiom' with 'idiot' mainly because they both have the same word origin 'made one's own' 'one's own' simply because it's virtually impossible to explain an idiom in your own language to someone else in their language. It's truly idiotic. And that brings me back to my old friend, Bill Shakespeare who was the king of the idiom as here when he's talking about human life:
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a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing. |
Alan |
You are definitely right about explaining idioms to speakers of another language. When I ask my former lecturer why the university had not grant sessions discussing idioms in its introductionary course, they told me that it would take two semester just to finish "Idioms 101" and the word "introductionary" would lose its meaning. LOL!
When I was 15, I read an old English textbook belonged to my late grandfather by C. E. Erckesley. It was Longman's I believe. The book includes a short passage about a young man from Germany who traveled to England to visit his friends. I did not get the humor in the story until later years of my training. Here is the most comical part:
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(An excerpt from "Olaf's letter")
...I studied English for nearly 8 years before I went there (to England). Everyone back home told me that my English is excellent. Even my lecturer thought that I speak like a native speaker. However, up until now, I can barely understand what everyone here is saying when they talk to me. I wonder, if Deutsch is the language of German people, then what is the language of these Englishmen? Because they certainly does not sound English to me!..." |
Could it be that Olaf's difficulty communicating in English is due to his lack of understanding of idioms? A penny for your thoughts, Alan?
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