Subject: English language - discussions

True, still - genuine has many meanings. It can mean both honest and true. My question was dealing with the issue whether you can use the 'bona fide' expression in order to express the true qualities of a person, the true, stereotypical qualisties existing in a certain person or a group etc.

Like...'He is a bona fide Russina' meaning 'he really drinks as a Russian'.

Might not be the best possible example but it seems decent...

btw I can't tackle one pretty easy activity...the idea is to insert a word or expression to make the sentence 'work'.

I went to the new pizzeria last night: it does the .[?]. eaten
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you certainly can use bona fide like that but I would consider it an americanism or think I was talking to my great-grandmother...

As for the fill in the blank thingy - hit whoever has written it. Afterwards tell them to pick a tense and stick to it! And get the punctuation right...

I went to the new pizzeria last night [full stop] It does [nothing worth] eaten... ;-)

thanks ;)

btw:

please tell me some websites with British news, like the online version of guardian etc. I have to do a summary of top news in Britain for the forthcoming 2 weeks :)
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news.bbc.co.uk
www.guardian.co.uk

you only really need bbc news, anything newspaper based comes with more of an editorial slant, and is therefore more about opinion than facts.
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True, but I also need different views on every issue, both the left sided journalists and the righ sided :)

something like this?

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

both are skewed in their viewpoint.
The Socialist Worker is more anti-government than truly socialist these days as it feels there should be a political move to the left.
The Daily Mail is also anti-government as it thinks we should all be exporting all immigrants, chavs, ne'er-do-wells and spongers.

The first is a left wing bias on fact. The second is almost entirely opinion based on a possible future loosely based on a right wing interpretation of fact.

Sounds useful, thanks! :)

I'd also like to use this topic to ask another question, not entirely connected with the language itself.
I've heard a rumour that it's possible to get a Cambridge diploma as a Master.
It supposedly works this way that after finishing one's Master studies at a non-British university [3 years + 2 years/3 years + 3 years/5 years studies, depending on the university and type of studies] it is possible to study for one year at Cambridge to get a Cambridge Master's diploma.

It sound pretty interesting, though also weird. Is it really possible? Where should I seek confirmation and information?

Although...well it sounds weird, but it is possible I guess.
In Poland it's for example possible to finish one type of studies [for example English philology/linguistics] and then move on for the Master studies to the entirely different 'area of interest', like economics. The only unavailable 'changes' are changing to a 5-year studies, like Law studies or Medicine.
Of course, you have to pass your exams well enough to get accepted.

As an example, I've finished the first level of my studies at English philology[mostly to get an English teacher certificate] and then moved, since this year, to Applied linguistics because it gives you the Translators certificate and that's the thing that I'm going to concentrate on job-wise. It's also much more interesting than English philology itself, because it's basically English philology with smaller amount of English and American history, poetry and prose but with additional translating lectures and workshops which are truly great :)

well you must be getting better as I can understand you most of the time! ;-)

Wohoo! ;)
Although...it still doesn't mean that I would understand even a single word if I'd go to Liverpool or somewhere like that ;)

there are a lot of english people who wouldn't.

go there or understand the locals?

well, when you put it like that, either.

If you were to choose 3 most important and most 'talked about' subjects in BBC television during last week, which one's would you choose?

Do you mean the subjects given most coverage/talked about by commentators and programme hosts, etc. on the BBC, or talked about by joe public, having watched the subject on the BBC?

Given most coverage on the BBC :)
I wasn't able to watch the BBC at all during last week, trying to download and listen to some podcasts but these are only radio. Can't find any weekly summary of news made by BBC though.

If we're talking news output then, in no particular order, I'd go with discussion about...
the Dubai (Al-Qaeda) bomb threat,
the Harriet Harman 'ginger rodent' comment
and the impact of the various budget cuts