Subj : Can you write it?
To   : Nil Alexandrov
From : alexander koryagin
Date : Tue Oct 03 2017 18:26:19

Hi, Nil Alexandrov!
I read your message from  02.10.2017 19:21
about Can you write it?.

 >> Can you write it?

 NA> What you are probably asking for is to transcript the utterance.

Do you think "write" is unclear for the Englishmen? "Transcribe" is somewhat a 
scientific word, IMHO. :)

 ak>> This is  a short mp3 audio file. Logically I understand it, but can
 ak>> you write it exactly, as it is? It was from the latest BBC click
 ak>> program about how to prolong life of the mobile phone battery.
 ak>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4vhI2LJjxi5ZnNEdmF4Q1RFVkk

 NA> The transcript would be like "If you plugin it when you get beds, and it
 NA> charges after a couple of hours, that time at the 100% charge overnight
 NA> will significantly accelerate the degradation of the battery."

I also spent a half an hour listening it. :) I sent my third version in the 
previous message.


 ak>> PS: In Russia we say that some people have ears that were stepped by
 ak>> bears. :)

 NA> Have Van Gogh's ear for music?
 NA> The equivalent to that Russia expression would be "to be tone-deaf".

IMHO, pure Russian phrases are more interesting for the foreigners. After all 
this idiom is very clear, and a person understands easily that a person has a 
poor musical ear if it was stepped by a heavy bear.

Bye, Nil!
Alexander Koryagin
ENGLISH_TUTOR 2017

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