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Old 25th November 2005, 15:14   #1 (permalink)
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Sorry, but can I just point out that it is 'Iraq' and not 'Irak'. For someone who is supposed to know so much about this product I am surprised at your spelling mistake. Do you actually know the history of this product or are you just repeating what someone has told you to say?
I think Qualitylifpro is Spanish, hence the bad english in places, in which case, it would be 'Irak' to him. Spelling in English is often different in other languages, so I think it's a bit unfair to make judgements based on that. (Especially considering the quality of spelling I have witnessed elsewhere on this forum! )

Note :
there = a place - 'It is over there'
they're = a person - 'They're very nice'
their = belonging to someone - 'Their car was very nice'

Sorry, bad grammar is one of my pet hates.
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Old 25th November 2005, 15:23   #2 (permalink)
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Unfortunately most people are ignorant about something or other, but I agree - we should all be a bit more aware of world affairs (and spelling & grammar )
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Old 28th November 2005, 21:51   #3 (permalink)
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there = a place - 'It is over there'
they're = a person - 'They're very nice'
their = belonging to someone - 'Their car was very nice'
this is what make English so hard to learn. Other examples of words that have more than one meaning, often with the same spelling...

Free... To release something
Free... Costs nothing
Free... Its available (as in a car parking space)

All the above meanings have different words in other languages.

Desert... the army
Dessert... as in pudding
Desert as in a the Sahara

4
for
fore

Telephone... Pronounced by newcomers to English as "Telep Hone" (god knows how they pronounce 'Photograph'

Hear
Here

Bare
Bear

and loads more.
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Old 29th November 2005, 14:55   #4 (permalink)
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A bit more to add... common gramatical errors, which are actually quite good stuff to know if you have kids in Spanish school, as they tend have to rely on their parents to learn English correctly.

You're = You are -You're very nice.
Your = belonging to - is that your car?

The general rule for apostrophes is they appear where the missing
letter(s) were.

It's = It is
You're = You are
Don't = Do not
Wouldn't = Would not

A good resource for English Grammar if you want to brush up on it in order to teach your kids,

http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/gramm...ndex_wide.html
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All languages have their own unusual features - it's just a shame that they aren't in sync with each other, it would make life so much easier!

It always amazes me that the Spanish have one word 'llave' which can mean a key, a tap, a spanner, a switch, a stop ****, a wrench ... in fact more or less anything really, whereas in English we have a wall, but in Spanish it's a different word depending on whether it's an inside wall, an outside wall, a garden wall etc ... oh well ... who said life would be easy.
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A spanish taxi driver was telling me how he thought it was crazy that in english 'sea' and 'see' are pronounced the same. He said "how do you know which you are talking about?"
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in English we have a wall, but in Spanish it's a different word depending on whether it's an inside wall, an outside wall, a garden wall etc ... oh well ... who said life would be easy.
Which one's 'Pared'?
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Sorry ... missed this one ... Which one's 'Pared'?

... generally speaking an inside wall, a dividing wall - that sort of thing.

Un muro would be for example the wall of a house from the outside, or an exterior wall. That probably means that if you look at the same wall, it would be un muro from the outside but una pared from inside the house. I've never actually thought about that one.

Then we have una tapia which is a garden wall.
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Thanks! That's interesting to know!
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