Author: Rauf Aliev

Learn phrasal verbs and idioms. Half of the conversational speech is built on them. Expressions such as head out (to leave home/work), the quite popular verb pull (out/into/down/…), and a plethora of combinations with get/come/go that can describe just about anything. #американский #английский #american #english

It’s not easy to get used to how are you [doing] and its derivatives. It’s a literal replacement for “Hello”. Good morning is still used, but Hi and even more so Hello are almost universally replaced by Hey. I haven’t heard Good evening even once #American #English #american #english

In the majority of cases where one could say “I know,” here they say “I’m aware of.” There is a difference between these words, but “know” is used less frequently than “aware of.” #American #English #american #english

We almost universally use the word deck to mean “presentation”.

In the old days, presentations prepared in PowerPoint were printed on sheets of transparent celluloid and then shown on slide projectors. A stack of such sheets was called a deck. And then the same term began to be applied to presentations in general, even if they were never printed at all. I hardly ever hear the words presentation or slides where you could say “deck” #American #English #american #english

Here, almost everyone always says “naini” and “tvenni” instead of ninety and twenty. More precisely, the “t” sound is so microscopic that it’s almost swallowed. Meanwhile, it’s not “offen,” but “often” (well, this is more about Anglo-American differences). #American #English #american #english

How different our perception is from Americans regarding 1) plumbers 2) veterans 3) service

In the flower department

Switched the theme on the blog to a new one

I can’t figure out why the indexing in Google is so weak. The blog has been live for 20 days now, Google has indexed something, but webmaster.google.com still says no. Many search terms don’t work. The previous version of the blog had auto-load on scroll – maybe that’s why? There were too many h1,h2,… Anyone who knows SEO, could you please help with advice in DM?

At the “graduation” in sneakers and shorts! About Lisa and her first American party

I’ve created a prototype where 500,000 customer groups have unique product prices. In total there are 90 million prices. These unique prices are displayed not only on the product card but also in the product list and search results – which always poses a certain challenge in basic hybris (since the price is usually fetched not from the database but from an index which “out of the box” updates rather slowly and dislikes being too large).

To update all 90 million prices on the website to new ones takes about 5-6 minutes.

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