Subject: English language - discussions

no, they like to bake lovely scones.

:P

Exam is over, went ok I think..although it was a hard one :/ reading part was about author agreeing/disagreeing with Camus' philosophy about world and life...while the text was understandable, I had no idea what this guy was writing about in some parts..I wouldn't get the grasp of it in Polish I think! And the questions were hm...very ambivalent...

can a question be ambivalent?

:p

for the record, passed my exam. Happy 3+, 83% correct. 85% would've given me 4, but well...could've been worse.

Congratulations. :)

All persons who I like are friendly and kind. They must be quite intelligent and have similar hobbies to me. I also like people with good sense of humour. It's good if they don't talk too much but they shouldn't be shy anyway. I value trustworthy and responsible persons. It doesn't matter if someone is older or younger than me.


I don't like rude, arrogant, violent, selfish and unkind people. It annoys me if someone thinks that he's the best and he's very conceited. I don't trust unresponsible persons and I also don't like silly and dumb people. It irritates me if someone doesn't have at all sense of humour.


Could you correct mistakes, please? :D

All people I like are friendly and kind. They must be quite intelligent and have similar hobbies to me. I also like people with a good sense of humour. It's good if they don't talk too much but they shouldn't be shy either. I value trustworthy and responsible people. It doesn't matter if someone is older or younger than me.


I don't like rude, arrogant, violent, selfish and unkind people. It annoys me if someone thinks that he's the best and he's very conceited. I don't trust irresponsible people and I also don't like silly and dumb people. It irritates me if someone doesn't have a sense of humour at all.

It looks like a lot of changes, but it's not really. "Persons" as you've used it isn't incorrect (at least I don't think so) but it's just not colloquially used that often, so I've changed all instances of it to "people".

A sense of humour is a noun, so needed an "A" infront of it. "Anyway" was used out of context. "Either" is a much better word without totally rewriting that sentence.

I corrected the word "UNresponsible" because it doesn't exist! The real word is, as above, "IRresponsible", but you weren't to know necessarily. I changed the word order in the last sentence, but otherwise didn't do much.
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thank you very much :D

Using one word,'people' in this case, in almost every sentence isn't a good thing.
Try to use different names for the same thing, like [Pele/the Brazilian player/probably best of all times etc]

It makes your writing much better.
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I suspect he was trying to do that by using "people" and "persons", but "persons" just doesn't sound how we'd speak.

Other English-as-a-first-language people chime in if I'm spouting barnacles.

Yup. Although as I've mentioned it, it's not that easy to give a synonym for people...human beings sounds stiff...

Personally, I'd probably use "kind" if I were to be writing a piece like this. I forget the original text, but you can say "I don't like the kind that would throw bananas at El Hadji Diouf." You know, partly because he's making it up to avoid a race related charge from the FA, but still. Or you could use "kind of people" to break it up, but it's still using people. :s

And maybe "I don't like those, who are irresponsible and..."?

or

I don't trust the irresponsible and I dislike the silly, but a lack of humour particularly irritates me.

Good one :)

Jonathan Edwards - Sinners in the hands of an angry god

anybody knows where can I get the text of it? All I can find on google is interpretation...:/