What an awesome translation! I feel that my English has just improved.
Honestly, those little things you don't find in textbooks, you have to learn them from daily life of native speakers, and the speakers around me use very academic English. My last little treasure was "Where is my pen?.. It put legs and disappeared" (did I say it right? there was no possibility to write it down right there and then). It was a long-wanted translation of Russian "Где моя ручка? Кто-то ей ноги приделал".
I wish there would be an organized way of learning those in both languages.
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Date: 2008-10-04 01:00 am (UTC)Honestly, those little things you don't find in textbooks, you have to learn them from daily life of native speakers, and the speakers around me use very academic English. My last little treasure was "Where is my pen?.. It put legs and disappeared" (did I say it right? there was no possibility to write it down right there and then). It was a long-wanted translation of Russian "Где моя ручка? Кто-то ей ноги приделал".
I wish there would be an organized way of learning those in both languages.