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Welcome to the forum, Jada

When you agree to do something something you hate because you were lost in your book and never heard the question. Then I started to answer mmm all the time. It makes life so much easier.

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Welcome to the forum, Bren

Reading the posts about merkins in the other thread, I remember I saw them in a film (although I've never heard the word before). Unfortunately I cannot remember the title. It was set in Rome in 1945 and dark haired prostitutes used blond merkins to attract Black American soldiers. I can't even...

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Hi Baddie and welcome

Lots of thanks to mom2kngr, who sent me a Roald Dahl diary. It's great; the only problem is it might make my chocolate addiction worse.

Kook, I hope that poor baby from the Isle of Wight is not one of your relatives.

But it is the opposite for someone whose first language is not easier. Classics are easier to understand for foreigners because when we learn English we start with formal speech, so what we would have trouble with is slang, dialectal speech, modern idioms, etc., which you don't find in older...

However you pronounced it, it could not be anything as bad as a Japanese friend of mine. She said 'doboroksan'. I admit the san bit, because that's the rule in Japanese but, the rest? And you should hear many Londoners take on Beethoven

Yes, there is that. :( But also, you have to admit you are very young, since 13 is the minimum age to belong to the forum. You are one of the benjamins here.

Doing a better search than yesterday. I gave up trying to think how Agarene might relate to Wilde and started thinking that maybe the 'nightingale and the rose' story came from somewhere else, so I searched on sources for the story and found a persian sufi story, which had been translated to...

Found the answer. The reference was not to Wilde but to the author of a much older story, in which Wilde based his.

In a Borges' poem I've just read 'To a nightingale' there is a clear allusion to Oscar Wilde, although he is not mentioned by name. Instead the author calls him 'Agarene'. Does anyone know why? I cannot think of anything to justify that appellative. PS. It's not homework, just trying to...

When I gave my maths teacher a bunch of roses with a love letter and he immediately phone my father. I understand know, poor man but it felt awful at the time. Same question

Maybe learn to drive, although it would probably cost me five times that, being so clumsy. Any place you would refuse to go to?

Welcome, Steffee

I would advise you to visit your local library. The classics are all there (although not in English, unless it is a big library), so you can check authors, style, etc. before you buy them in English. As for modern books, in quite a few countries - I don't know where do you live - they don't keep...