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60.       Daydreamer
3743 posts
 22 Jul 2008 Tue 10:44 am

Quoting peacetrain:

You´re absolutely right, correction is very important when learning a language. However, the way it is done is also important and IMO a pm would have been more appropriate in this instance. It would have helped Yilgun in the future. The thread isn´t on the translation forum.



It´s nothing but the pot calling the kettle black. You could have informed LIR about how you interpreted her post via PM too instead of provoking a five-page pointless discussion...Don´t preach what you don´t follow yourself...

61.       peacetrain
1905 posts
 22 Jul 2008 Tue 10:56 am

Quoting Daydreamer:

Quoting peacetrain:

You´re absolutely right, correction is very important when learning a language. However, the way it is done is also important and IMO a pm would have been more appropriate in this instance. It would have helped Yilgun in the future. The thread isn´t on the translation forum.



It´s nothing but the pot calling the kettle black. You could have informed LIR about how you interpreted her post via PM too instead of provoking a five-page pointless discussion...Don´t preach what you don´t follow yourself...



This answer was also predictable, a TC classic for some. Everyone has a choice as to whether they want to engage in a pointless discussion. The minute you decide to engage in a discussion it ceases to be pointless for you (´you´ in general terms). I think I´m right in saying that LIR hasn´t posted about the topic of the thread, but then that´s her right.


And hey, we all preach what we don´t follow at one time or other.

Final resort in a TC discussion . . .accuse someone of:

* being a pot calling the kettle black
* hypocrisy
* preaching about something they are also guilty of

Btw, couldn´t you have told me all that in a pm?

62.       libralady
5152 posts
 22 Jul 2008 Tue 12:22 pm

Quoting peacetrain:

Quoting Daydreamer:

Quoting peacetrain:

You´re absolutely right, correction is very important when learning a language. However, the way it is done is also important and IMO a pm would have been more appropriate in this instance. It would have helped Yilgun in the future. The thread isn´t on the translation forum.



It´s nothing but the pot calling the kettle black. You could have informed LIR about how you interpreted her post via PM too instead of provoking a five-page pointless discussion...Don´t preach what you don´t follow yourself...



This answer was also predictable, a TC classic for some. Everyone has a choice as to whether they want to engage in a pointless discussion. The minute you decide to engage in a discussion it ceases to be pointless for you (´you´ in general terms). I think I´m right in saying that LIR hasn´t posted about the topic of the thread, but then that´s her right.


And hey, we all preach what we don´t follow at one time or other.

Final resort in a TC discussion . . .accuse someone of:

* being a pot calling the kettle black
* hypocrisy
* preaching about something they are also guilty of

Btw, couldn´t you have told me all that in a pm?



No real reason for quoting above but please tell me why everyone is making such an issue of this? Yilgin is a young man learning English, please stop picking on a simple mistake and "making a mountain out of a molehill" (Yilgin - example of a metaphor lol )

If you were all driving right now you would all be stuck in the middle lane doing 50mph lol

63.       lady in red
6947 posts
 22 Jul 2008 Tue 03:52 pm

Quoting libralady:


No real reason for quoting above but please tell me why everyone is making such an issue of this? Yilgin is a young man learning English, please stop picking on a simple mistake and "making a mountain out of a molehill" (Yilgin - example of a metaphor lol )

If you were all driving right now you would all be stuck in the middle lane doing 50mph lol



LL - here I am being picky again but I think that ´making a mountain out of a molehill´ is an idiom not a metaphor!

And btw I am not contributing to this thread because I don´t drive! - but I am a PERFECT backseat driver!

lol


64.       AEnigmamagnadea
416 posts
 22 Jul 2008 Tue 04:06 pm

Quoting lady in red:

LL - here I am being picky again but I think that ´making a mountain out of a molehill´ is an idiom not a metaphor!



lol lol lol

65.       teaschip
3870 posts
 22 Jul 2008 Tue 05:20 pm

Quoting yilgun-7:

What Kind of Driver Are You?
Cool-headed, careful and experienced?



The purpose of driving is to go from point A to point B as quick as you can. If everyone would just follow this philosophy there would be no more road rage in this world.

66.       AEnigmamagnadea
416 posts
 22 Jul 2008 Tue 05:27 pm

Quoting teaschip:

The purpose of driving is to go from point A to point B as quick as you can. If everyone would just follow this philosophy there would be no more road rage in this world.



100% agree with you on that one Teas! lol

67.       SuiGeneris
3922 posts
 22 Jul 2008 Tue 05:29 pm

Quoting teaschip:

Quoting yilgun-7:

What Kind of Driver Are You?
Cool-headed, careful and experienced?



The purpose of driving is to go from point A to point B as quick as you can. If everyone would just follow this philosophy there would be no more road rage in this world.



thats the part causes road rages! everybody has a different idea about what can be quick

68.       teaschip
3870 posts
 22 Jul 2008 Tue 05:31 pm

Quoting SuiGeneris:

Quoting teaschip:

Quoting yilgun-7:

What Kind of Driver Are You?
Cool-headed, careful and experienced?



The purpose of driving is to go from point A to point B as quick as you can. If everyone would just follow this philosophy there would be no more road rage in this world.



thats the part causes road rages! everybody has a different idea about what can be quick



Simply traveling faster than the speed limit.

69.       alameda
3499 posts
 22 Jul 2008 Tue 11:49 pm

Quoting lady in red:

LL - here I am being picky again but I think that ´making a mountain out of a molehill´ is an idiom not a metaphor!



Ummm actually it is both a metaphor and an idiom....as some idioms are also metaphoric, such as this one.

make a mountain out of a molehill

70.       lady in red
6947 posts
 23 Jul 2008 Wed 12:42 am

Quoting alameda:

Quoting lady in red:

LL - here I am being picky again but I think that ´making a mountain out of a molehill´ is an idiom not a metaphor!



Ummm actually it is both a metaphor and an idiom....as some idioms are also metaphoric, such as this one.

make a mountain out of a molehill





Please note I did say ´I think´ - but I stand corrected and thank you for only posting one link to explain it to me!

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