There are four elements of the zodiac – air, fire, water, and earth. The zodiac signs within each element share certain characteristics.
Take this fun quiz to find out which zodiac element your writing style is like and see if it matches your real zodiac sign!
(Mine doesn’t match. My sign of the zodiac is the fire element and not earth – as in the picture above!)
Pseudo-anglicisms are words that you think are English, but they aren’t. According to this BBC article, foreign languages are full of them.
Germans call a very old car an Oldtimer. It sounds very English, doesn’t it? But it’s not. At least it’s not the word we use for an old car. We call them vintage cars. An oldtimer is an elderly person.
There’s a website (link to: http://www.vds-ev.de) that can help us translate these pseudo-anglicisms into German.
I entered the term “public viewing” (which if often used in German but doesn’t have the same meaning in English!). The German word is “Großbildübertragung”. But I can’t remember when I last heard that word. Can you?
You’ve been asked to give a presentation. Although you’re thrilled, on the one hand, you’re also nervous or even frightened.
In this article (link to: writing-skills.com) you can learn how Monica Lewinsky overcame her fears.
The first step – prepare wisely and thoroughly.
The main task of the semicolon (that’s this little punctuation mark here ;) is to mark a break that is stronger than a comma, but not as final as a full stop (or period in American English).
You might like to see how it’s used here (link to: en.oxforddictionaries.com).
