jueves, 27 de febrero de 2014

Una Foto que se toma uno mismo, autofoto.

Selfie.

Nicolás Maduro took an excellent selfie.

In News:

"Teach me how to take a good selfie,"
Gazette.com 

"Don't use a photo your mother took of you at last year's family beach outing. Don't use a selfie."
Forbes.com

jueves, 20 de febrero de 2014

Es sólo un decir.

It is just a figure of speech.

"You usually use the figure of speech "break a leg" to wish actors good luck."
Cambridge Dictionary Online

In Modern Literature:

“If you ever touch my coffee, I’ll see to it that you’re sent to the mail room to lick stamps.”
 “We have an automated licker. Do they lick stamps on Wall Street?”
 “It was a figure of speech.
The Firm by John Grisham.

In Cartoons:











KING FEATURES

miércoles, 5 de febrero de 2014

Teléfono de disco

Rotary phone, rotary dial phone, rotary dial telephone.


On Websites:


Pink Retro Old Fashioned Rotary Dial Telephone

Amazon.com

In News:

"A nugget of Philly technology is going the way of the Walkman, rotary telephone, Beta tapes, pet rocks, TurboGrafx 16 and phone booths."
NBC

"For those of us who still remember rotary phones this innovation is truly extraordinary. By and large, such technological developments have been a benefit to our society and our economy."
The Hill.


Un telephone a cadran en anglais en espagnol.