Correct spelling?

[chrissie1]

I was asked to check the spelling on a document that was written in English and alltough I can search for most words in the dictionary. Some words are not in there and the grammar is sometimes problem too. So I kindly ask for your help.

telogen phase hair or telogen-phase hair

in the sentence

It's common knowledge that the limiting factors in obtaining a STR profile are the quality

is a or an STR

I tend to say nucliei (more then one nucleus) but they wrote it nuclei am I pronouncing it wrong?


Christiaan Baes
Belgium

"My new site" - Me

 

[RCorrigan]

Ah ... the old Flems v Walloons debate !!!!!!!

(see here)

<Do I need A Signature or will an X do?>

 

[Lunatic]

Wow... I learned about a new type of Salad Dressing. I'd never seen 'Russian' salad dressing before. Not that I think I'll be trying it anytime soon (not a big fan of mayo).


Chrissie -
How exactly is it that the Belgians caused the countries to regret invading it?

Every country you can think of has invaded belgium and lived to regret it.

Seems to me that non-Belgians were responsible for the downfall of the forces that invaded Belgium. I don't think they regret invading Belgium, I think they regret losing to the other forces after they had conquered Belgium.

 

[chrissie1]

Nobody stayed so they regreted the time they wasted comming here. This isn't the most beautiful piece of land in the world, it just happens to be in the middle of europe. Yes I know what you are going to say "But it has the most beautiful, intelligent, wonderfull, enlightend, fantastic, ... people in the world" and you are right but thatis no reason, it's not because you invade a country that you will become one of it's citizens.

Christiaan Baes
Belgium

"My new site" - Me

 

[drlex]

I'd agree with the beer sentiment - there are a couple of restaurants in London called Belgo that specialize in moules, biere and frites. Mayonnaise is optional.

I'm embarrassed to say that there was (and probably still is) a party game along the lines of 'name 10 famous Belgians'. I recall usual offerings included Georges Remi (a.k.a. Herge), Rene Magritte, Eddy Mercx, Hercules Poiret, Dirk Bikkembergs (Christian - apologies for spelling and lack of accenture).

I am puzzled as to why Douglas Adams thought to make 'Belgium' the Galaxy's most obscene word in his Hitch-hikers' series of books. Does anyone recall him mentioning this in an interview?

soi la, soi carré

 

[earthandfire]

Maybe he had met chrissie!

 

[Lunatic]

Nobody stayed so they regreted the time they wasted comming here.

So someone would regret visiting a friend because they didn't stay forever? And time spent with that friend would be wasted?

 

[chrissie1]

I'm not obscene most of the time. And I'm less pobscene less of the time then more of the time. So on average I'm less obscene and statistically I'm not obscene since it can't be prooven.

Christiaan Baes
Belgium

"My new site" - Me

 

[SilentAiche]

I tried French dressing once, but it retreated from the lettuce. Very odd. The cries of "mais oui" only added to the confusion...

Of course, the tomatoes were "reds."

Neopolitan

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"Although many figures are strange, prime numbers are truly odd."[/blue]

 

[drlex]

Christian,
I see that the premier of Flanders, Yves Leterme, agrees with you with regard to beer - the kingdom amounts to nothing more than "the king, the national football team and certain brands of beer" (if I have a correct translation of the interview in Libération).

soi la, soi carré

 

[chrissie1]

I agree but th national football team is not that good and the King is only human, so we are left with the beer.

Christiaan Baes
Belgium

"My new site" - Me

 

[drlex]

Gooser,
Your ignorance is excused - apparently the mighty Google also believe that there is a language that unifies Belgium, according to their recent job advertisement:

http://www.google.ie/support/jobs/bin/answer.py?answer=39256

soi la, soi carré

 

[earthandfire]

So google thinks that they speak Belgian and English in Portugal?

 

[KenCunningham]

No. Irish Google does ;-)

All I ask of you
Is make my wildest dreams come true

 

[chrissie1]

Very unprofessional, they ask

The objective of this role is to sell Google products (primarily AdWords) to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Portugal.

And then they ask for him to speak belgian. Everybody can apply you are bound to be smarter then their HR persons.

Christiaan Baes
Belgium

"My new site" - Me