What/where are the black plastic drapes?
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miawj — 13 years ago(September 23, 2012 12:52 AM)
Really? Do you genuinely think any reader of English requires such a 'translation'? Why aren't you clarifying the use of 'teacher', 'student', 'college'
I also question the accuracy of the translation. In Britain you visit a draper's shop to buy curtains you do not go to a curtain maker's. No reader of British English is likely to not know what drapes are.
Then again, perhaps the translation is offered on the grounds of class or age rather than Atlanticism. The lower classes and yoof clearly only encounter curtains pre-cut and shrink-wrapped in their edge-of-town malls and it is horribly elitest of me to expect them to have sauntered by a haberdasher or drapery. -
Bartholmumet — 13 years ago(October 04, 2012 02:07 PM)
I am English and fully understand what the OP meant.
Why did you find the need to translate into English and not Spanish or German or any other language?
While I agree with some points in your post it just makes you come across as either extremely stupid or a bit of a prick.
If anything the Op is correct as this is an American website.
Also spelt and spelled are both English words(though spelled is the least commonly used version in the English language) and mean the same thing, just like burned and burnt!Just because you're
paranoid it doesn't
mean that they're
not watching.