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Have you gotton a driving license?
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22 Jul 2008 Tue 10:44 am |
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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.
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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...
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22 Jul 2008 Tue 10:56 am |
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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.
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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? 
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22 Jul 2008 Tue 12:22 pm |
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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.
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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?
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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  )
If you were all driving right now you would all be stuck in the middle lane doing 50mph 
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22 Jul 2008 Tue 05:20 pm |
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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. 
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22 Jul 2008 Tue 05:27 pm |
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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!
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22 Jul 2008 Tue 05:29 pm |
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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
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22 Jul 2008 Tue 05:31 pm |
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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. 
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22 Jul 2008 Tue 11:49 pm |
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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 
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23 Jul 2008 Wed 12:42 am |
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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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