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radar
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posted November 30, 2009 06:32 PM |
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Edited by radar at 21:14, 30 Nov 2009.
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Okay, more cheating on homework
I have to put similar words to the ones given into the clauses
I will be editing this post as soon as I have trouble with other sentences 
Thanks in advance
eg. Don't pick mushrooms like these. They are ..uneatable.. (EAT).
1. There's a likelihood (my dict. says likeliness works too) of the river bursting its banks soon, so the local inhabitants are advised to store food and drinking water.
2. It's obvious that the captured fugitives will stand trial in due time.
3. The headmaster decided to expel the rough boy from our school. His behaviour was really objectionable.
4. Mrs Hill has worked for us for ten years now. She is the most experienced typist in our office.
5. Owing to watchman's alertness the ship avoided hitting the rocks at night.
6. We've been informed by the bank that there are still some outstanding bills that we have to pay immediately.
7. Jake acted disrespectfully. He called everybody names then slammed the door and left the meeting.
8. In this shop, domestic appliances like dishwashers, cookers or vacuum cleaners can be bought on instalment.
9. Even the most apologetic excuse will not be enough.
10. In no circumstances should you open letters marked as confidential.
11. Your brother is very irritative, isn't he? He gets angry very quickly and sometimes for no reason at all.
12. We always have to cope on our own. Everyone else is indifferent to our problems.
13. Nick can cope with problems easily. He's very resourceful.
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Keksi 3
Veco 1
C'mon guys I'm to do it for tomorrow 
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DagothGares
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posted November 30, 2009 07:30 PM |
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likeliness (not sure about this one)
trial
objectionable
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Keksimaton
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posted November 30, 2009 07:31 PM |
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On your example, I'd call "uneatable" kind of choppy. "Inedible" would be better in my opinion.
1. -
2. trial
3. objectionable
Edit: You may have beaten me this time Dagoth, but I'll be back! Though I guess that a second opinion wouldn't hurt. "Likeliness" does sound right.
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veco
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posted November 30, 2009 07:34 PM |
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Likelihood?
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DagothGares
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posted November 30, 2009 07:38 PM |
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Go with veco's suggestion on that one.
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radar
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posted November 30, 2009 07:42 PM |
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Edited by radar at 19:48, 30 Nov 2009.
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Someone clarify please
go go guys
natives don't score points but gain satisfaction and my likeabilityfulnessation
keksi it had to be created from "eat"
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TheDeath
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posted November 30, 2009 07:50 PM |
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Edited by TheDeath at 19:52, 30 Nov 2009.
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objectionable, not objectable 
4. Typist
5. Alertness
6. ?
BTW veco was right for 1
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Keksimaton
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posted November 30, 2009 08:00 PM |
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6. outstanding
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TheDeath
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posted November 30, 2009 08:13 PM |
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Tell you what, some are easy, why don't you try to come up with answers yourself and ask for corrections? You'll learn expressions easier that way. (sometimes there are no rules, this is english, not a programming language )
7. disrespectfully
8. appliances
9. ?
10. confidential
11. irritated/?
12. indifferent
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posted November 30, 2009 08:17 PM |
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9. apologetic?
11. irritable
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radar
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posted November 30, 2009 08:25 PM |
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Boris believe me I've got 300 clauses to do, I'm tired and want to clarify all those I'm not sure of
thanks for your help
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posted November 30, 2009 09:11 PM |
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13. resourceful
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radar
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posted November 30, 2009 09:16 PM |
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Congratulations TD, you have won the prize (whatever it was lol)
now, can some native read it and confirm it's all done well?
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Binabik
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posted November 30, 2009 10:22 PM |
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Edited by Binabik at 22:28, 30 Nov 2009.
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"inedible" is MUCH preferred over "uneatable"
1) likelihood -> possibility, probability
(it's a matter of degree, it depends on how likely)
2) trial -> ???
a phrase rather than a single word might be "go to court" instead of "stand trial"
3) objectionable -> intolerable
4) typist -> ???
maybe "cleric" but it's not really the same thing
5) alertness -> vigilance
6) outstanding -> unpaid
7) disrespectfully -> impolitely, rudely, discourteously, uncivilly
none of these are exactly the same, but they will work in the sentence
8) appliances -> there is no good synonym for this, but "devices" is the best I can think of, maybe British English has another word for it
9) apologetic -> sincere
10) confidential -> private
11) irritative -> moody, temperamental
(I'm nt sure if "irritative" is a real word)
12) indifferent -> uninterested, apathetic
uninterested IN , not uninterested TO
13) resourceful - creative, clever
BTW, the words and sentence structure in many of those were pretty bad. And some of them sounded like they came from a book that was 100 years old.
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posted April 09, 2011 03:03 PM |
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There is a question for our dear native-speakers. I'm currently translating a series and I've been confused by the name of the Korn's song "Beat it upright". Funny thing is that in the series the interlocutor also says "I'm not familiar with the term". The context is the following: kids didn't like their teacher and created a web-page titled "<surname> beat it upright". The last phrase in the dialog is "It's rap metal song and slang phrase."
So what does it actually mean? Just "beat hard" or smth like that? Or it's somehow related with sexual habits? I would really appreciate your help.
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DagothGares
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posted July 29, 2013 01:21 PM |
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Is there a positive way to phrase: "Bob isn't petty?"
Closes I get is: Bob is pretty broad-minded. Is there a difference of meaning or does it fit, according to you guys?
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posted July 29, 2013 03:04 PM |
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DagothGares
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posted July 29, 2013 03:11 PM |
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It sounds a bit verbose and a bit grandiose. I guess it's hard to assert this quality to Bob in casual conversation.
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posted July 29, 2013 03:26 PM |
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I didn't even know that broad-minded also meant that So someone like me would still need clarification as to what broad-minded meant there.
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keldorn
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posted October 12, 2013 12:33 AM |
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When I was re-reading my old posts, I came across something that I wrote on page 7 in this thread. We were talking about difficult languages to learn, and DagothGares claimed Dutch not being a very difficult language at all. Now comes my problem.
I think in English, there's a phrase to express "very difficult" or "not well-understandable", and this phrase is "double Dutch". Example: This math problem is double Dutch for me.
Do I know something wrong? What is the truth here? 
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