צו די חשוב'ע רעדאקציעס פון אידישע אויסגאבעס: אדם אוסר את שלו, עס איז נישט ערלויבט זיך צו באנוצן מיט מיינע ארטיקלען אן קיין בפירושער ערלויבעניש. איר קענט אייך מיט מיר פארבינדן אין אישי. א דאנק פון פאראויס.
נישט ריכטיג. די מקור פון aks שיינט צו זיין פון ebonic English, אדער אויף אידיש גערעדט, שווארצע ענגליש. ס'בערך אזוי נישט ריכטיג ווי וואס יוצאי ארץ הגר 'עלען רופן א פולקע א "צאמבי". ס'איז פשוט אן אנדערע דיאלעקט פון ענגליש.
אגב, איך האב מיך דערמאנט פון אן אנדערע common טעות. די ווארט a lot (א סאך) איז צוויי ווערטער, נישט alot.
ארבעט אויך talk אין א לשון עבר (past tense)? עפעס פיל 'ך זיך מאדנע צו זאגן we talked yesterday, בשעת א past perfect, אזויווי we have talked ארבעט עטוואס בעסער.
דבילה האט געשריבן:ארבעט אויך talk אין א לשון עבר (past tense)? עפעס פיל 'ך זיך מאדנע צו זאגן we talked yesterday, בשעת א past perfect, אזויווי we have talked ארבעט עטוואס בעסער.
יא און ניין. עס איז נישט טיפיש צו זאגן I talked to you last week, ווייל - ווי געזאגט - talk איז א פארמאלע לשון און מען זאגט ענדערשט I spoke to you last week. אבער עס איז געהעריג דערהערבאר צו זאגן the professor talked yesterday. שטימט?
[tag]דבילה[/tag], We talked yesterday איז אקעי. אמת, אויב די ביסט אן אימיגראנט וועט זיך עס הערן אביסל מאדנע, אבער אויב זאגסטו עס מיט א ריין ענגליש אקצענט, ספעציעל אויב די ביסט יונג און זאגסט עס מיט א פראגע צייכן צום סוף, האט עס דירעקט א מאדערן קלאנג. ס'איז א hip version פון We spoke yesterday.
[tag]Boxcover[/tag], צו מיינע אויערן הערט זיך נישט אזוי גוט, The professor talked yesterday אויזער אויב די לייגסט צו די ווערטער about it. The professor talked about it yesterday. נאכאמאל, אויב די אויבנדערמאנטע תנאים זענען דא (young, hip אא"וו) קען מען עס דורכלאזן.
Can I start a sentence in a college level essay with a conjunction? For example can I begin a sentence with the word 'however' or 'nevertheless'? Please don't google it and post the results, because I did that already, and there is no clear answer online. I'm asking if someone has any first hand experience on how colleges and professors view this kind of writing.
אברמי פון בארא פארק האט געשריבן:Can I start a sentence in a college level essay with a conjunction? For example can I begin a sentence with the word 'however' or 'nevertheless'? Please don't google it and post the results, because I did that already, and there is no clear answer online. I'm asking if someone has any first hand experience on how colleges and professors view this kind of writing.
Of course you can start a sentence in a college essay with *however* or *nevertheless*. When you wrote *conjunction*, I thought you meant a coordinating conjunction, such as *and,* or *but*, but what you're talking about are words in the "conjunctive adverbs" family, and it's always acceptable to start sentences with these, as long as used in a grammatically correct way. And for the record, it's correct to start sentences with *and* and *but*, too.
[tag]פידלער[/tag] Thanks for the reply. I really meant to ask about all conjunctions, but I just brought those two examples that happen to make more sense. But what about starting a sentence with the word 'so' or 'and' or 'but'? That seems a little weird. I get it that grammatically speaking it's correct, but won't some college professors look at it as not professionally written?
As long as *and* or *but* are used correctly, no professor worth her/his salt should have a problem with it as the opening word of a sentence. *However* is the formal alternative to *but*, so you can certainly use that if you're hesitant to use *but*. *So* is generally not a proper word to start a sentence with. If you'd like to bring an example of a sentence like that here, I'd be happy to comment on it
Josh האט געשריבן:צו אלע ידענים דא. איז דא עני חילוק צווישן DUE TO און BECAUSE OF? אויב יא ביטע ערקלערט.
In everyday conversational English, they are perhaps interchangeable. But you'll need to be careful when you're using them in formal English
Due to", modifies a noun, or pronoun; while "because of" modifies a verb" (And both of them are prepositions of course).
A helpful tip. You can put "caused by" in place of "due to". Then, see what happens. Caused by and due to are sometimes interchangeable, but they sound different. So it will be easier for you to determine, whether you are using the proper words. In places where you feel "caused by" will be fine, then "due to" would probably be good as well. If not, you'll know that it's wrong, and you may have to write "because of", or "on account of" instead.
יא, איך שטים צו צו וואס [tag]יואב[/tag] זאגט, אבער איך וואלט אפשר געטוישט "caused by" צו "attributable to."
tag]Josh[/tag], do you want to know the difference for your personal knowledge or because you plan to use it in a college essay? I'm asking because the phrase *due to* has traditionally been a source of argument among grammarians, with some pedantic ones insisting that the idiom isn't correct English at all. Therefore, if your prof. happens to be one of these fussy ones, you may want to avoid using the phrase altogether.
Here's the entry from the OED:
d. due to, as prepositional phr. = owing to at owing adj. 3. Described as ‘erroneous’ by W. A. Craigie in the Dict. of Amer. Eng., and said by H. W. Fowler in Mod. Eng. Usage (1926) to be ‘often used by the illiterate as though it had passed, like owing to, into a mere compound preposition’, this use is now widely current though still firmly rejected by many grammarians.
1897 S. T. Clover Paul Travers' Adv. 190 [The Koturah] was taxed to her capacity, due to the fact that..she was advertised to go first to Adelaide. 1926 in Fowler Mod. Eng. Usage 123/2 The old trade union movement is a dead horse, largely due to the incompetency of the leaders. 1953 Sat. Evening Post 5 Dec. 173 So far, due to engineering controls, more precise than any known to industry, this has never happened. 1955 Times 25 July, Largely due to the defence efforts of the Western Powers, Europe was in a state of stalemate. 1957 Queen Elizabeth II in Times 15 Oct. 10/6 Due to inability to market their grain, prairie farmers have for some time been faced with a serious shortage of funds to meet their immediate needs.
