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Well well, not only did I totally black out on Wednesday and forget to do anything, but I wake up and find it's July already! Strangely, about thirty people I know all have birthdays in July, with most of them falling in the first two weeks. I always think of them as the Martial Law baby-boomers since they were all born early to mid eighties. So happy birthday all you July birthday people! Speaking of the book of Face, we had quite an interesting and fun week over on The Bad Article's page there. On Monday, I stumbled bleary-eyed across a link to one of those fashionable 'Facebook Fail' type sites, with an amusingly pedantic slant which we can all enjoy. Haf a luk hear and C wot U fink. Early Tuesday I tripped over an old friend, enables to . Check this out: The availability of consumables in the form of solid wires and modern welding equipment enables to undertake tests of welding materials for operation at higher temperatures. enables to is a broken phrase that ...

‘Better late than never’ is a common English idiom, often used by people embarrassedly giving you a birthday present or anniversary congratulations days or weeks after the event. And so it is with some small degree of embarrassment that I present our next translating item for your consideration, somewhat later than I would have liked had real life not once again grabbed me by the collar and stuck a big gun loaded with commitments between my shoulder blades!   Never mind though, because this is a BIG one, and if you’re going to claim any right to those degrees hanging on your wall (or rolled up and shoved in a drawer – apparently not everyone feels the need to frame their diplomas), then like James Bond in Q’s office before another exciting mission, you must “pay attention”!   Seriously, this is a big one, one of the universal errors which everyone everywhere makes when coming into English from another language. The culprit today is also , and the charge is Appearing in all the...