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‘Gut deutsch sprechen’ or ‘gutes Deutsch sprechen’ in German
This is a classical dilemma. Which one is correct? Fortunately, it’s hard to make a mistake here because both “gut deutsch sprechen” and (...)
November 24, 2013 – Jakub Marian – German
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Integral of $\cos^2(x)$
Let’s use integration by parts: If we apply integration by parts to the rightmost expression again, we will get $∫\cos^2(x)dx = ∫\cos^2(x)dx$, which is not very useful. The trick is to rewrite the $\sin^2(x)$ in the second step as $1-\cos^2(x)$. Then we get (...)
November 24, 2013 – Jakub Marian – Mathematics
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“Aren’t I” / “amn’t I” / “am I not” in English
When you ask an affirmative question at the end of a sentence, you are supposed to use the contracted version of a verb. For (...)
November 23, 2013 – Jakub Marian – English
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“Sympathic” does not exist in English
Sympathique in French or sympathisch in German—the word has spread in some form probably to all European languages, with one major (...)
November 20, 2013 – Jakub Marian – English
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Fire in the hole – meaning and origin
Everyone who has ever played a first person shooter in English will know the expression “fire in the hole”, used by your fellow fighters (...)
November 17, 2013 – Jakub Marian – English
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“In the picture” / “on the picture”; “in a photo” / “on a photo” in English
The equivalent expression in many languages employs a preposition translated as “on” in most other contexts (e.g. “sur” in French). In (...)
November 14, 2013 – Jakub Marian – English
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English verbs that are the same in the present tense and in the past tense
Most of the commonly used English verbs are irregular. If the past tense and the past participle differ from the present tense, it is (...)
November 10, 2013 – Jakub Marian – English
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“A lot of is” or “a lot of are” in English
The usage of singular and plural verbs in English is sometimes more complicated than in other languages. One example of this phenomenon is (...)
November 8, 2013 – Jakub Marian – English
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‘He or she’ vs. ‘they’ in English
Traditionally, in English, when you had to use a pronoun for a person whose sex was unknown because it had been previously referred to as (...)
November 5, 2013 – Jakub Marian – English
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‘Auf der Webseite’ or ‘an der Webseite’ in German
One of the trickiest parts in language learning is translation of prepositions. In German, when there’s something written on a website, (...)
November 4, 2013 – Jakub Marian – German
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