Personally I hate to write with a pencil — my handwriting is extremely ugly and incomprehensible. I believe the same problem is very common for IT people, and most of us prefer to use a PC or some mobile device to make notes. Until recently, I believed that prehistoric pen’n’paper notes will cease to exist … → Read More: Handwriting vs Typing.
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I hate this English verb “draw” — when you finally believe you already know ALL of its translations — it appears in some text with new one. I’ve started to read Conan Doyle’s stories about Sherlock Holmes. Of course, I’d read it before, but that was a Russian translation, and despite its quality — I’ve missed … → Read More: “Draw” Some people say something like “there are only the Net phenomena”. I wonder if someday people will tell “It’s only Real World stuff, just ignore it”. Yesterday I overheard Angry Birds theme, translated by some FM-radio. This is quite strange for me. If i was told ten years ago that music from some computer game … → Read More: The Net vs. The Real World. First half of this winter was unusually warm — we hadn’t any snow until middle of January. And then — bah! White Winter with a Russian flavor — a lot of snow and very cold. Now we have about –15 Celsius (5 ºF). So I have some old kid’s fun — melt ice on frozen balcony … → Read More: General Frost came into town Russian translation of Nickelodeon’s Spongebob Squarepants scares me sometimes. In this episode Squidward dares Bob to go out Krab’s at night (for dumping garbage). Bob was scared, but when he returns to Krab’s he said — “a piece of cake” and snaps his fingers. It was translated on Russian as “give me one cake please”. … → Read More: Idioms and translation. testyourvocab.com — the site helps me to face sad truth about my English. My vocabulary was estimated and it contains about 11000–12000 words. It’s very modest vocabulary, i think. Also, I believe in my case this estimation a bit too optimistic. I know too much very rare words like “meadow”, “whim”, “shrill” but often don’t … → Read More: My vocabulary Maybe because Russian language itself is very complex, so all necessary brain cells are already used by it? No! But Russian and English are very different, so russian-speaking people (including me) usually have similar problems with English: 1. A and The. Russian language doesn’t have nor indefinite, nor definite articles. This means Russians have a tendency … → Read More: Why English is so difficult for russian-speaking persons? Very interesting — ski mask, or ‘balaclava’ used by special forces and SWAT all around the world — was named after small Ukranian city Balaclava. Two century ago, when Great Britain fought Russia in Crimea war — it was invented by some british soldiers. Crimea’s winter was so freezing, that soldiers forced to use knitted … → Read More: Balaclava I still can’t believe in plain and stupid fact — my current mobile phone has more computer resources (memory, processor speed. etc) than my desktop PC ten years ago. And when we talk about modern PCs — we need to understand that all of them have more computation power than mainframe supercomputers of 20-th century. … → Read More: Can we make the World a better place without ANY efforts? Hello, my name Eugene Ronin. Today I’ve decided to start English blog. This is quite a decision for me, because my English is very work-oriented, and I use it for business communication and customer interaction only. I believe I need to change it and start to speak and write just for fun. There is only … → Read More: Let’s start it… |
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