nie rozumiem

[alva7]

"Texas Governess Mrs Margaret Jones invited Verona, Italys Ms Benicelli to the Lone Star state for the official release of Jones lastet book Quick Italian Meals for the Busy Woman".
Rozumiem wszystkie slowa, nie rozumiem jednak pierwszej czesci zdania. Przypuszczam, ze ma to zwiazek z brakujacymi apostrofami. Czy Ms Benicelli na na imie Verona?
Prosze mi pomóc. Angielskiego ucze sie dopiero od roku. Pozdrawiam.

[jarka63]

"....pani Margaret Jones zaprosiła panią Benicelli z Werony we Włoszech do stanu Samotnej Gwiazdy...". (czyli Teksasu)

powinno być: "..invited Verona, Italy's Ms Benicelli..."

[lapidus1]

to 'zdanie' jest tragiczne pod kazdym wzgledem

rzeczywiscie brzmi jakby pani Benicelli miala na imie Verona

odwal to cwiczenie zwracajac uwage wylacznie na apostrofy i nie trac czasu ani energii na rozgryzanie idiotycznego zlepka wyrazow

Texas' (choc moze amrykanie zostawiliby texas bez apostrofu?)
Italy's
release of Jones' latest book

haha ...invited Verona, Italy's Ms Benicelli,

osoba ktora zadala to cwiczenie nie wystawila sobie dobrego swiadectwa

w podanym zdaniu oprocz sensu brakuje tez przecinka i duzej litery

[republican]

Governess in Texas makes no sense.

[lapidus1]

Governess, haha, jeszcze lepiej.
Ci studenci powinni zazadac zwrotu forsy wydanej na nauke za pomoca takiego g_wna.

[perk]

That's a pretty good example of what you can hear on the radio or on TV or read in a paper every day; it's today's edited and vetted prose in a journalese style.
Aside from the missing Saxon genitives, which I think are left out on purpose, all the other slip ups merit some scrutiny.

[lapidus1]

> That's a pretty good example of what you can hear on the radio or on TV or read
> in a paper every day; it's today's edited and vetted prose in a journalese style.

God, I shudder to think what you read ;) As it happens, it's not been committed by a journalist, it's the other group that's always to blame - teachers.

That prose comes from a masterpiece of a worksheet generously made available by Hueber's Sprachenportale, Englisch section.

Today's prose, you say.

Was there ever a time when learned men did not puff up their chests to bemoan the decline of language? Was there ever a time when kids were well behaved? Time when academics, administrators, business people were honest; lawyers not greedy; accounts, reports and histories accurate ...oh, dear.

When was this Golden Age of language?

One good thing about today is that we are here and we can do our bit to influence things we care about. Which I'm sure we are.

[perk]

You know nothing about this.
If you must have your say again, stammer it out eloquently.

[lapidus1]

I see you've found more time to be rude and haughty about your assumed superior knowledge about how language should be used.

You complained about today's language.

I asked whether you could name a time when the use of language by the populace would satisfy your requirements.

A reasonable question, I thought.

The answer is, of course, that there never was one. I thought it was common knowlege, although there are people - I wouldn't want to accuse you of being one of them - who insist on be Egyptian about it. In denial.

I must emphasise that I don't mean those who care about language and enjoy its many uses in its many lovely forms. I mean only those who do nothing else but criticise and complain with eye-popping pomposity.

You chose to act like a twat:

> You know nothing about this.
> If you must have your say again, stammer it out eloquently.

I fear my eloquence will never meet your standards and my posts will only irritate you more in their imperfection. But permit me to make my position clear by borrowing a reply, with only minor alterations (can you spot them?), from someone whose facundity is beyond reproach:

This is obviously a very difficult problem. Perhaps it'll help if I explain that I don't give a flying toss about Mr Perk.

I've only got an estimated 37 years left on this planet. I don't propose to waste any more of them on idle chatter with a self-important gas-bag.

bie rozumiem

[alva7]

Wszystkim. którzy zareagowali na moja prosbe - bardzo dziekuje. Równiez za krytke tego tekstu, bo próba zrozumienia o co wlasciwie chodzi doporowadzila mnie - w mala przesada - do granicy zalamania nerwowego. Dyskusji nie moge sledzic ze wzgledu na niewielka znajomosc angielskiego, ale ciesze sie, ze takowa nastapila; kazdy pretekst jest dobry, by porozmawiac o jezyku, o komunikacji...
Pozdrawiam.

[paulski]

I hate to say this, but because of the years-long sex equality promotion in media, there is nothing shocking anymore about Governess XY:

Alaska Governess Sarah Palin said this …
Arizona Governess Janet Napolitano did that…

Perhaps more annoying is the wide-spread use of Alaska/Arizona/any state… and Governor before a proper name as if Alaska Governor and Texas Governess were titles. They most certainly aren't.

[republican]

lapidus1 napisał:

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>>
>
> This is obviously a very difficult problem. Perhaps it'll help if I explain tha
> t I don't give a flying toss about Mr Perk.
>
> I've only got an estimated 37 years left on this planet. I don't propose to was
> te any more of them on idle chatter with a self-important gas-bag.
>
>
If I did not know better, I would say:
Attaboy

[lapidus1]

thank you :)