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Tag Archives: Eurospeak

Ambition

Ambition isn’t always purely about positive goals. There can be overtones of being hell-bent on achieving them: being greedy, self-serving and unscrupulous.

Posted byMike WilkinsonAugust 10, 2020Posted inAdvanced, Overused words, StyleTags:ambitie, dunglish, engels, Eurospeak1 Comment on Ambition

Trajectories are for ballistics

The curve taken under gravity by a thrown object, or a metaphorical upward progression such as a career. Not a generic synonym for a route or pathway.

Posted byMike WilkinsonJuly 10, 2020July 14, 2020Posted inMistranslations, Overused words, Style, Valse vriendenTags:dunglish, engels, Eurospeak, traject2 Comments on Trajectories are for ballistics

Adequate

Would you want to be operated on by a surgeon whose skills are adequate? Or would you rather have one who’s good?

Posted byMike WilkinsonMay 19, 2020May 21, 2020Posted inAdvanced, Overused words, Wrong registerTags:adequaat, dunglish, engels, Eurospeak1 Comment on Adequate

Colophon

It’s not a word. (Well, just about, deep in the dark depths of the dictionary. But that doesn’t make it correct.)

Posted byMike WilkinsonMay 17, 2020May 21, 2020Posted inAdvanced, Fake English, Wrong registerTags:colofon, dunglish, engels, EurospeakLeave a comment on Colophon

The field of…

Major contributions in the field of microbiology… Great commitment to the field of science… When the word count for your paper’s abstract is limited, it can be annoying to discover it’s gone up by 5% in the English.

Posted byMike WilkinsonMay 10, 2020May 21, 2020Posted inLongwindedness, StyleTags:dunglish, engels, Eurospeak, gebied, op gebied van, op het gebied vanLeave a comment on The field of…

Checking the controls

Controls are mechanisms or procedures for making machines or processes behave as you want, i.e. controlling them, not checking them.

Posted byMike WilkinsonMay 9, 2020May 21, 2020Posted inElementary, Mistranslations, Valse vriendenTags:controle, controleren, dunglish, engels, EurospeakLeave a comment on Checking the controls

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