Jaime Said:

can someone please explain doctor training scheme in plain english to me?

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=S

Catherine Said:

Please translate this line to plain English?

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It's about self destruction. People know being conceited will make their life less rich (they will lose friends, respect, cause friction) yet still become conceited.

Carole Said:

What should I do to wrtie English sentences found in novels ,magzines, newspapers?

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I would ask someone that is a teacher of the English language. Maybe you can bring the newspapers, magazines, and novels to someone who can help you correctly diagram the sentences, and explain how and/or why they are diagrammed like that.

I hope I helped! :)

Marlene Said:

Can Someone please translate the following essay question into plain english for me?

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i have that exact same question for my english assessment task and that exact same text.
are you in butchers class. phs ?

Herbert Said:

What application should I let my mother use for a somewhat basic course in English (American)? ?

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silly question from me to you: does she speak English?
another silly question: if not, then what language does she speak?

i will suggest, with no more info, to use the Pimsleur system

Francis Said:

What's the best place to put my 401k into a IRA from my last job?

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If your new employer has a 401k and the funds are reasonable you should consider first moving it there. However, if the fees are unreasonable or the funds are poor then an IRA is better. Just make sure you don't taint it with any after tax or non-deductible contributions.

As with any investment you have the possibility of losing money...Schwab and Fidelity don't guarantee returns nor will anyone else.

Beth Said:

Will you put this into plain English?

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First of all, this is very poorly written in English. In fact, it's horrible. I've had to read it many times to try to understand it. Here goes:

There is a lot of information about the nature of the universe which is hard for us to understand in human terms. This information is, of course, scientific. Some of the world's greatest poems and even entire civilizations disagree with how we have understood the beginning of the universe [from the scientific point of view]. This is because many works of man put man at the center of the universe, but science tells us this is not true. Science makes this problem even more difficult since it does not encourage us to believe [or trust] in thoughts that arise by themselves in our minds, and it makes us question the prejudices and biases that lie beneath [i.e., are the hidden causes of] ideas which seem to us to be obviously true and which need no proof. [So scientific facts seem to contradict common sense.] But scientific thought is not knowledge of the sort that is involved in the creation of epic poetry and epic culture.

By "epic" the writer seems to mean the large works of literature that define a culture, like the great Greek poems by Homer which embody Greek ideas and ethics. This last part is confusing. It seems to mean "Culture and science are based on different kinds of knowledge. Culture is not based on scientific knowledge."

But this doesn't follow easily from what is written before. He or she seems to think that what comes before is claiming that cultural productions like poems are based on science, but then tells you they are not. But it never claims that culture and science are the same. The whole text is explaining why this is NOT true. So why correct a misconception that doesn't exist?

Really bad writing. Contradictory, much too formal language that adds nothing, sentences too long to follow, etc.

"Many of the data which the imagination has found it so difficult to find a place for in any humanly useful conception of the universe as a whole are, of course, scientific."

Means:

"There is a lot of information about the nature of the universe which is hard for us to understand in human terms."

More or less.

The original is bad writing because the structure is:

"Many of the data ... are, of course, scientific"

But he or she puts in this subsidiary clause:

"... which the imagination has found it so difficult to find a place for in any humanly useful conception of the universe as a whole..."

between the noun and verb. This is a very long clause and it is written with too many words. The result is that the subsidiary clause can make you forget about how the sentence started and so when you get to the end, you don't know what is being referred to any more. I had to read this one sentence several times to figure out what it meant.

If your teacher wrote this, don't criticize it :-)