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how can i improve my en? you used so much slang in your conversations. i have trouble with grammar. and whenever i watch a en movie, i just get a few sentences of it. do your actors really talk en? what can i do?
The en dash is slightly longer than the hyphen but not as long as the em dash. (It is, in fact, the width of a typesetter's letter "N," whereas the em dash is the width of the letter "M"—thus their names.) The en dash means, quite simply, "through." We use it most commonly to indicate inclusive dates and numbers: July 9–August 17; pp. 37–59.
Math Is Hard said:You could start by calling it English, unless what you really want to discuss is a problem using en and em dashes. If that's the case, read here:
http://www.getitwriteonline.com/archive/091502.htm
En_lizard said:how can i improve my en? you used so much slang in your conversations. i have trouble with grammar. and whenever i watch a en movie, i just get a few sentences of it. do your actors really talk en? what can i do?
So French is Fr? :tongue:En_lizard said:En mean English!
America's offical languange isn't english it's AmericanEntropy said:Yeah, english is a pretty crazy language. That's why I think America should change their offical language to binary.
scott1 said:Amrica's offical languange isn't english it's American
Slang and colloquialisms abound in English, as an American, I sometimes have trouble understanding a person from the United Kingdom. I've never heard of English being called en.En_lizard said:i though it was popular. you know it was easy to guess anyway. i said 'your awful language'. now you can understand poor people like me. i usually have to guess what others are telling me in English.
It's web-geek thing.. as part of a URL you will findMath Is Hard said:I have not heard of English being abbreviated as "en". When you are communicating in a foreign language it's best not to invent new abbreviations and slang. People have trouble understanding you. The word en has a specific meaning to me, and it is not "English".
But they say nothing about anything being called en or fr or ru, it's just an abbreviation in the url. Nice try though.Ouabache said:It's web-geek thing.. as part of a URL you will find
example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ (en - page in English)
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/ (fr - page in French)
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/ (ru - page in Russian)
That reminds me, there was a law in some state, (Illinois, I think) that said that nobody could speak english in that state, only "american".scott1 said:America's offical languange isn't english it's American
You have golden mouse ears??Evo said:But they say nothing about anything being called en or fr or ru, it's just an abbreviation in the url. Nice try though.
A much cherished gift from ZapperZ. :!)Ouabache said:You have golden mouse ears??
Not teasing, just informing. It's worse to let someone go on thinking something wrong than to correct them.I must have missed something. Must be a reason why folks are teasing En_Lizard
when did i say fr or ru?Evo said:But they say nothing about anything being called en or fr or ru, it's just an abbreviation in the url. Nice try though.
Grrr...I actually read that:grumpy:Math Is Hard said:You could start by calling it English, unless what you really want to discuss is a problem using en and em dashes. If that's the case, read here:
http://www.getitwriteonline.com/archive/091502.htm
yomamma said:Grrr...I actually read that:grumpy:
Math Is Hard said:You could start by calling it English, unless what you really want to discuss is a problem using en and em dashes. If that's the case, read here:
http://www.getitwriteonline.com/archive/091502.htm
yeah, but how many times do you use "la bamba" in conversation?Gale said:i thought that was kind of interesting. I always used a hyphen instead of the em dash, but after reading that, i won't make that mistake again.
anyrate, when i was learning spanish, my favorite thing to do was to listen to spanish music. lyrics are probably the hardest thing to understand, even when you know the language. so i'd have my spanish friends write the lyrics down in spanish and english, and i'd sing along, and it helped my verbal and listening skills a lot.