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TL;DR Primero asegurate que necesitás un examen internacional. Después, fijate qué te piden donde los vayas a presentar, y si tenés opciones (a veces no hay) elegí el que más se adecúe a tu perfil, o el que «más fácil te parezca», en función de tu perfil. Para eso vas a necesitar hacer un poco … Read more
TLDR: Depende de tus objetivos y necesidades. Si te lo piden en un trabajo o universidad, sí; si no, probablemente no. Tené en cuenta que lleva tiempo prepararse, es caro el material y el examen, y en muchos casos tienen fecha de vencimiento. El examen es una instancia de evaluación, no de aprendizaje: para practicar o aprender inglés, te recomiendo un curso, clases particulares, o alguna otra alternativa: el examen solamente si necesitás la certificación. [Seguir leyendo]
Sinuosos, sinusitis, sinusoide, etc, vienen del latin sinus, doblar. Seno, coseno, también vienen de ahí (igual que, obviamente, seno = pecho) Pero el caso más interesante es insinuar: decir las cosas “doblando”, dando un rodeo, no directamente. Decime si no es una genialidad que tiene que hacernos a todos rendirnos a los pies del lenguaje, decime, ehehe?!
“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings … Read more
Lion: Hey Max, you heard the story of the scarecrow?Max Millan: No.Lion: You think crows are scared of a scarecrow?Max Millan: Yeah, I think they’re scared. Yeah why?Lion: No, crows are not scared, believe me.Max Millan: The god damn crows are scared.Lion: No, crows are laughin’.Max Millan: Nah, that’s bullshit…Lion: That’s right, the crows are … Read more
—Oswald: What dost thou know me for?—Kent: A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liver’d, action-taking knave; a whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition … Read more
In her radio show, Dr Laura Schlesinger said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22, and cannot be condoned under any circumstance. The following response is an open letter to Dr. Laura, written by a US man, and posted on the Internet. It’s funny, as well as informative: … Read more
“Yet Brutus is Everyman in the sense that every man is Brutus at some hour of his life. Whoever is aware of the parity between what he would be and what the world seems bent on making him is a Brutus in a general sense. More specifically, Brutus is the man of sensitive nature who, … Read more
“It is as if Shakespeare were confirming Dostoievsky, and Dostoievsky Shakespeare. Only very ingenious persons will think that these two supreme students of the human mind, because they do not express themselves in scientific nomenclature or in the language of the twentieth century, must have been ignorant of truths that psychology is only now beginning … Read more