Comments for First Edit http://www.firstedit.co.uk/blog Musings on translation, language and the world Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:40:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Just a bit thick… by Bridget http://www.firstedit.co.uk/blog/?p=470#comment-1027 Bridget Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:40:45 +0000 http://www.firstedit.co.uk/blog/?p=470#comment-1027 Thanks - that's a great one! Thanks – that’s a great one!

]]> Comment on Just a bit thick… by Maria-Christina http://www.firstedit.co.uk/blog/?p=470#comment-1026 Maria-Christina Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:58:10 +0000 http://www.firstedit.co.uk/blog/?p=470#comment-1026 I don't know in Spain, but in Argentina, I have heard friends talking of someone else as: "Le falta un fósforo en la cajita" (fósforo = cerilla, in Spain) Thus: his/her box is short of a match... something like that! :-) I don’t know in Spain, but in Argentina, I have heard friends talking of someone else as: “Le falta un fósforo en la cajita”
(fósforo = cerilla, in Spain) Thus: his/her box is short of a match… something like that! :-)

]]> Comment on There’s a giraffe in the road… by Ruth http://www.firstedit.co.uk/blog/?p=277#comment-847 Ruth Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:15:03 +0000 http://www.firstedit.co.uk/blog/?p=277#comment-847 Nice to read your blog Nice to read your blog

]]> Comment on Harry Potter fever! by Issac Mcwilliams http://www.firstedit.co.uk/blog/?p=126#comment-644 Issac Mcwilliams Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:53:44 +0000 http://firstedit.co.uk/blog/?p=126#comment-644 Greetings! This is my first comment here so I just wanted to give a quick shout out and tell you I genuinely enjoy reading through your blog posts. Can you recommend any other blogs/websites/forums that go over the same topics? Thank you so much! Greetings! This is my first comment here so I just wanted to give a quick shout out and tell you I genuinely enjoy reading through your blog posts. Can you recommend any other blogs/websites/forums that go over the same topics? Thank you so much!

]]> Comment on European Day of Languages by Brian Barker http://www.firstedit.co.uk/blog/?p=231#comment-203 Brian Barker Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:55:36 +0000 http://www.firstedit.co.uk/blog/?p=231#comment-203 Yes, today is the European Day of Languages. You may be interested to know that several British schools have introduced Esperanto in order to test its propaedeutic value. You can see details on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INCr1bV8kGk The Council of Europe has also provided some phrases and expressions in Esperanto, which you can see here http://www.goethe.de/ins/se/prj/ets/mlg/gep/enindex.htm The Esperanto online course http://www.lernu.net has 125 000 hits per day and Esperanto Wikipedia enjoys 400 000 hits per day. That can't be bad :) Yes, today is the European Day of Languages. You may be interested to know that several British schools have introduced Esperanto in order to test its propaedeutic value. You can see details on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INCr1bV8kGk

The Council of Europe has also provided some phrases and expressions in Esperanto, which you can see here http://www.goethe.de/ins/se/prj/ets/mlg/gep/enindex.htm

The Esperanto online course http://www.lernu.net has 125 000 hits per day and Esperanto Wikipedia enjoys 400 000 hits per day. That can’t be bad :)

]]> Comment on European Day of Languages by Bill Chapman http://www.firstedit.co.uk/blog/?p=231#comment-202 Bill Chapman Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:53:25 +0000 http://www.firstedit.co.uk/blog/?p=231#comment-202 I hope that some people will take a look at Esperanmto. A good place to start is www.lernu.net I hope that some people will take a look at Esperanmto. A good place to start is http://www.lernu.net

]]> Comment on What makes you happy? by realnet http://www.firstedit.co.uk/blog/?p=155#comment-85 realnet Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:08:29 +0000 http://firstedit.co.uk/blog/?p=155#comment-85 Facebook Like button has now been added please "Like" away Facebook Like button has now been added please “Like” away

]]> Comment on What makes you happy? by Bridget http://www.firstedit.co.uk/blog/?p=155#comment-29 Bridget Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:11:43 +0000 http://firstedit.co.uk/blog/?p=155#comment-29 Thanks Sean - it doesn't get better than that! Thanks Sean – it doesn’t get better than that!

]]> Comment on Machine Translation by Bridget http://www.firstedit.co.uk/blog/?p=16#comment-26 Bridget Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:27:25 +0000 http://firstedit.co.uk/blog_temp/wordpress/?p=16#comment-26 Hi. The blog was set up by our web designers <a href="http://www.realnet.co.uk" rel="nofollow">www.realnet.co.uk</a> but it is set up on Wordpress which is readily accessible and easy to use. Hi. The blog was set up by our web designers http://www.realnet.co.uk but it is set up on WordPress which is readily accessible and easy to use.

]]> Comment on What makes you happy? by Bridget http://www.firstedit.co.uk/blog/?p=155#comment-25 Bridget Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:25:01 +0000 http://firstedit.co.uk/blog/?p=155#comment-25 Good point. I will talk to my web designer. Thank you. Good point. I will talk to my web designer. Thank you.

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