Subj : Can you write it?
To   : Nil Alexandrov
From : alexander koryagin
Date : Wed Oct 04 2017 17:19:10

Hi, Nil Alexandrov!
I read your message from  03.10.2017 20:55
about Can you write it?.

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

 NA> "Can you write it down, please?" -- Would sound more naturally and
 NA> less scientific, although people nowadays are pretty well familiar
 NA> with the tech like CC (closed caption) and subtitles everywhere on
 NA> TV.

As a Russian student could answer, "I am not a Down". ;-) But if seriously, it 
is an interesting question to the native speakers -- when it is necessary to 
add "up" and "down" to the verbs. Should it be done to add clearness to the 
verbs? Is "Can you write it?" not clear enough?

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

 NA> "If you plug your phone.." -- cannot hear "phone" here.

Paul heard it too, BTW.

 NA> ".. I mean charge after -- cannot hear "mean".

Well... As I said I don't pretend...

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

 NA> In this context (of Russia and bears), you just support the
 NA> cliche - bears, vodka, balalaika :-)

In Australia they have kangaroos, in Russia we have bears. Why should we be shy 
of it? The idiom about the ears trodden by a bear, sounds funny and IMHO is 
more clear than "Van Gogh's ear", for instance.

Bye, Nil!
Alexander Koryagin
ENGLISH_TUTOR 2017

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