Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / June 2005

Hi everyone. I'm not sure this is the right group; if not, forgive me.
I have a question related to etymology. I have read that the verb "to
call" - a loan from Scandinavian - was first recorded in a war poem around
991. Can anyone tell me the title of the war poem, and perhaps ...

When bilingual means doublespeak
Debra Saunders
Academic freedom -- and quality -- suffered a blow last week when writer
Richard Rodriguez announced that he would not speak at California State

For example:
I feel something here.
I sense something here.
They are both translated into Chinese with the same sentence.

We cannot return to a simpler world.  Much of contemporary social
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with say, the tranquillity of a village in Brittany.  But the comparison

I'm a german improving my englisch knowledges.
Here i've got a sentence in my book, which sense will not come to me.
(I'm not sure, wether my sentences are correct, but they sound good.
If you feel that some sentences sound totaly crazy, then I'ld please

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