Dressed in a traditional hand-woven hemp skirt and indigo blue head scarf, Sua, who spoke no English, informed us of her plan by smilingly typing out a Vietnamese phrase on her cellphone that Mr. Anh translated for us: "I will take you on the small, beautiful trail".
On a whim, they sought out the duty officer and, in their broken English, informed him that "this is our high time!" The officer didn't understand at first, then broke out in laughter when he realized that the young couple wanted to get married -- the German word for "marriage" is "Hochzeit," which they had translated quite literally as "high time".
In halting English, he informed me that he was a pharmacist, and he addressed me as a representative of the invading American power.
Card issuers will also be obliged to explain their terms in plain English and inform customers about the cost of using their cards.
In high-energy delivery that is two parts Spanish and one part English, she informs her radio audience this January day about the Spanish actor Javier Bardem's recently announced Oscar nomination.
My own view of English is informed by years in the trenches, writing dictionaries and taking the worm's-eye view of our language – and from down here, I can safely say that, contrary to the panicked squawking of linguistic doomsayers, English is not in need of any conservation or preservation.
By writing it, a bunch of Protestant English colonists informed Peter Stuyvesant, the director general of New Netherland, that they would not kick a group of Quakers out of town, even though they had been required to do so; in their defense, they pointed out that Dutch principles of "peace and liberty" extended to everyone, including "Jews, Turks, and Egyptians".
Participants were required to be between 18 and 80 years old and be able to speak English, provide inform consent, and have DSM-IV-TR diagnostic confirmation of type I or II bipolar disorder or schizoaffective bipolar disorder (American Psychiatric Association 2000).
Scott also expands on the original Alien universe by creating a distinctly English mythology informed by Milton's Paradise Lost and the symbolic drawings of William Blake".
Two persons who had Dutch as their mother tongue and were fluent in English, one informed about the goal and one uninformed, independently translated the questionnaire into Dutch (stage 1).
