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Wrote Macrae: "Anybody who comes to TIME from an English paper spends the voyage over mentally trying to turn 500-word newspaper stories into 500-word TIME stories-and goes crazy as a result. He invariably finds himself putting too many adjectives into bed with each noun. But the real test comes when you try to translate a 1,500-word newspaper story into a 200-word TIME story...
...offering the course for these students," William G. Perry, Director of the Bureau said, "because many were never taught the fundamentals of formal grammar at school. This makes it very difficult for them in language courses. For instance, they may not even know the difference between a noun and an adjective...
...Turning. It is in this new, committed kind of scholarship that The Interpreter's Bible has been written. As Dr. Buttrick sums it up: "There is only one Book. That Book is the noun; other books are but poor adjectives...
...There is no noun of assembly for cats," said the fourth leader. "Scorning to go about in packs or herds or even in a pride, they walk by themselves." Judge Basil Blagden of Cliffords Inn promptly begged to differ. "Sirs," he wrote, "You have, I believe, for once fallen into error ... Cats . . . assemble, on the rare occasions when they do so, in a 'clowder' and kittens in a 'kindle...
TIME, Sept. 4, in its article on "Little Siberia," makes a pardonable mistranslation of Bergfrauen as "mountain women," since the German language can at times be untranslatable. The word Berg, although it means mountain when it stands alone, means mine when it precedes another noun; e.g., Bergwerk-mine, Bergakademie-mining institute, Bergmann-miner. Bergmann, it is true, can mean mountaineer, but only when we are speaking of mountains. In this instance, the term Bergfrauen refers to women who mine...