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G'day mate! I am Australian, so if you wanna hear an Aussie accent, get in touch. I'd love to learn more Greek, and happy to help out with English. I learn different languages for different reasons - German because that's the language of my ancestors (five generations ago), Romanian because I married one, Persian because we have heaps of immigrants in our area, Spanish just for fun, and Greek because that's what my husband wants to learn. I love languages and cultures and food! :-)
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    Hi Sameer. I always thought this sentence really needed some context to explain its meaning, and I have found it. I searched the net and found that this sentence came from a book "The Diary of a Goose Girl". Luckily the full text is online and searchable. So after reading a little bit earlier in the book, and then reading the whole paragraph this sentence comes from, I found out what it means. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1867/old/gsgrl10.txt The author is writing about a chicken who has the strange habit of eating her own eggs, and she tries to find out why she would do that. She eventually decides that it must be to make up for something deficient in her diet. So she compares the situation to a man who has a bad diet to start with and makes up for it with beer and wine.
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    January 22, 2014
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    I found this on some legal documents for the EU. "The inclusion in the packaging of all medicinal products of a package leaflet is obligatory unless all information required is directly conveyed on the labelling." So in the eu it is called a package leaflet. http://ec.europa.eu/health/files/eudralex/vol-2/c/bluebox_06_2013_en.pdf
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    January 19, 2014
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    I am guessing that it is referring to chickens being raised in cages and fed rubbish, but I'm not sure how it fits into the first part of the sentence. It would make sense if somehow the eggs or chicken meat were being eaten and causing the human harm, because that would be revenge for the life she was given by humans....?
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    January 19, 2014
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    If the university is in general remote to everyone, then it is appropriate. But it sounds like you just mean that it is far away from where YOU live. Is that right? In that case I would say "the university is too far from where I live, and the public transport is not convenient." But if the university is actually remote from everything, outside of the normal city limits, then I would say it is remote and does not have convenient transport.
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    January 19, 2014
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    I would consider the sentences to be formal, less formal, and informal and completely natural, in the order you have written them.
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    January 19, 2014
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    I found this on Wikipedia. Does it help? "In general, the dative is used to mark the indirect object of a German sentence. In the following example dem Mann is in the dative: Ich schickte dem Mann das Buch. (I sent "to the man" the book.) In English, the same sentence may be rendered: "I sent the man the book." The indirect object here is marked by standing in front of the direct object. The normal word order in German is also to put the dative in front of the accusative (as in the example above). However, since the German dative is marked in form, it can also be put after the accusative: Ich schickte das Buch dem Mann. Certain German prepositions require the dative: aus, außer, bei, entgegen, mit, nach, seit, von, zu, and gegenüber. Other prepositions (an, auf, hinter, in, neben, über, unter, vor, and zwischen) may be used with dative (indicating current location), or accusative (indicating direction toward something). Das Buch liegt auf dem Tisch (dative: the book is lying on the table), but Ich lege das Buch auf den Tisch (accusative: I put the book onto the table)."
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    January 19, 2014
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    I would call it an information sheet, but there is also a proper name for it that I can't remember. I think it is something like prospectus but that's not it.
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    January 18, 2014
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    Also, some words have tricks to remember the spelling. "I" before "e", except after "c" = believe, receive. And other words you can see they come from the same 'family' so they will be spelled the same, but I can't think of any examples right now, and I don't think that would help a non-native anyway.
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    January 18, 2014
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    Pienso que dicen incorrecto. Wish es lo palabra correcto. If you say "Hopefully I can go to one of your shows", it means that you probably can go, you just need to make some arrangements. But if you say "I wish I could go", it implies that you would like to but you can't, and I think that is the correct translation in this case.
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    January 18, 2014
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    Yes, but I would also say that develop can mean more than putting together, it means more like growing. So with an idea, it might mean doing research and adding to the idea and getting more detail, not just putting your ideas in logical order.
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    January 18, 2014
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