To summarize the results of the English test

[riontel]

Lena doesn't know how to spell dessert, which is pretty damn amazing for somebody who eats it in such quantities. And I don't know how to hang people in past tense. Which is also mildly surprising when I think about it. Because people get hanged (sic!) quite regularly in the literature I tend to read. Of course they also get eviscerated, decapitated, defenestrated, staked, skinned, and quartered. So a mundane hanging might have gotten lost somewhere in there without leaving much of an impression.

Upd. Just to clarify, Lena is not a glutton, she just really likes sweets. But she exercises, so it's ok ;-)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

all right, all right, stop it.
we are not amused

-L

[riontel.livejournal.com]

Мы, Николай II? ;-)

[leonya.livejournal.com]

i don't get it. i thought it's "get hanged" in case of hanging (capital punishment, that is:)), as opposed to "I hung up the phone". Is this wrong?

[riontel.livejournal.com]

No, it's correct.

[rkatsyv.livejournal.com]

100%, 100%, 93%, 93%

Обидно облажался со "stationary", a "further/farther" is my old-time nemesis. То есть я знаю что одно из них - "дальше", а другое - "далее", но какое что запомнить не могу и уже, видимо не запомню никогда :(

[syarzhuk.livejournal.com]

what is that that you're reading?

[riontel.livejournal.com]

Sci-Fi, fantasy, and vampire novels mostly.

[rkatsyv.livejournal.com]

Могу посоветовать книжку, которая одновременно и Sci-Fi и fantasy и vampire novel. "Carpe Jugulum" by Terry Pratchett

[riontel.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Good idea. I haven't read that one yet.