Alexander Argüelles says on his YouTube channel that Assimil has decided to stop printing their books and from now on will only sell apps. Do you know whether that is true? It doesn’t seem to be, judging from the Assimil website.

I think that smtms is really annoying way to write sometimes!

That book is pretty ridiculous! (I say this as a former president of the ATA.)

Speaking of books on Amazon, I’m wondering whether you have a copy of Wörterbuch deutscher Präpositionen, which sells for a paltry $601. 🤪

En la escuela primaria acá nos enseñaron a decir “broma u obsequio”…

Viele Grüße an Euch alle. Und viel Spaß in Portland!

In The Hague, Denmark??

I’m a big fan of that channel! Flamenco is a hilarious mistranslation!

I purchased this book and it is teeming with errors: spelling errors, translation errors and grammatical errors. It needs to be overhauled and republished.

Et tu le traduis comment ?

No

Considerate means kind and polite, always thinking of others 🧐

If I were going to fake a British accent (yikes!) I would say “called” because I hear Brits saying that where we would say “named”!

Another book you might enjoy is the one that claims that grammar is different in the UK than in the US, e.g., “He insisted that I went” means one thing in UK and something else in US!

PS Maybe “why sing sang sung but not bring brang brung?” Maybe that’s a mystery? Although not really.

What’s an example of a mystery of English grammar ? I can’t think of one off the top of my head.

Never mind. I just saw this: "Dependent" is the dominant form in American English for both the noun and adjective, while in British English, "dependant" is more common for the noun.

That’s weird. He misspelled dependent!

Does PerfectIt flag this as an error?

Are you thinking of South African English (shame! or shampies in Afrikaans)? A sinvergüenza is a shameless person.