Dates can be written in various ways:
2017-08-29
29/08/2017
29th August, 2017
29th Aug. 2017
August 29th, 2017
I don’t like any of the above. I find them confusing. And we no longer need to write ‘st’, ‘rd’ or ‘th’ after the day.
To make it as clear as possible, I suggest you write the date as follows:
29 August 2017 or, if you like the American way of writing: August 29, 2017.
“He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.” Chinese Proverb
If you grew up with German parents, you might like to read this humorous article!
(But 18, 19 and 20 ARE true!)
I’d love to open my presents on Christmas Eve, but my children would never hear of it!!
“What’s the difference between a cat and a comma?
The cat has claws at the end of its paws, and the other is a pause at the end of a clause.”
How much do you know about pizza? Do the BBC quiz to find out.
And here are some fun facts about this very popular foodstuff.
Like … the world’s fastest pizza maker can make 14 pizza in 2 minutes and 35 seconds. Wow!
(Oh, isn’t the plural of ‘pizza’ ‘pizze’? Okay in Italian it is. But in English? Both ‘pizza’ and ‘pizzas’ seem to be possible! Read the discussion on Quora here.)
How would you translate the following German sentence?
Wir müssen das heute nicht entscheiden.
I’d like to suggest something like:
We don’t have to decide today
Watch out for “müssen nicht“. It doesn’t mean “must not” (that’s dürfen nicht). Just use “don’t have to“.
