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acapnotic пишет: 30 янв 2021, 12:59 There you seem to agree with the dictionary.
Not really. Not exactly, rather. Disgust would be something like «фу, гадость». While to me ugh is more like «да блин». I can see why Beginner would feel that way after getting bogged down with all the new vocabulary items.
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Easy-Breezy English, OK, let's take another dictionary.
ugh (ʊx; ʊh; ʌh)
interj
an exclamation of disgust, annoyance, or dislike
Btw, how do you say it? There are several ways.
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acapnotic пишет: 30 янв 2021, 13:32 Btw, how do you say it?
Uhkh, like a grunt. Usually accompanied with an eye roll.
There are several ways.
That's what I mean - it's versatile.
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Easy-Breezy English пишет: 30 янв 2021, 13:47 That's what I mean - it's versatile.
You meant meaning, not pronunciation. A word can be differently pronounced but have the same meaning.
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acapnotic, ugh... 🙄😆
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acapnotic пишет: 29 янв 2021, 11:14 Aren't you going to eventually clutter your apartment with them?
I have a house in the village and there is a village stove. I will use the pages of the books to light the fire . Then I'll put firewood in the stove. (I hope Nick Hornby won't see it :) ) .
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VictorB пишет: 29 янв 2021, 14:45 Indeed, different strokes for different folks :)
What does this sentence mean?. Do these words mean that people have their strangenesses?
I perceive, memorize information from paper books better than from a display. When the text goes up and then disappears (although, we can changhe the presentation style of the text), finally, I feel like the text disappears from my head as well. But when I read paper book and when I close it, I see the material item, something exsisting in reality, something pressed (compressed); I feel like the information saves in my head also like something compressed. I can also write by hand on pages, not typing.
It's just my subjective feelings.
But I think it is all just a matter of habit.
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VictorB пишет: 29 янв 2021, 17:41 Ugh!
Should you want to find out what feeling this particular exclamation/interjection expresses, here's a link to a reliable source:
I thought if we can use "уф" and "фу" in Russian for expression satisfaction after hard work, then I can use "ugh" (фу) in my expression. It (ugh) would be correct if it related to "Now I should to search for the meaning of many new words", but "ugh" was related to "I've finished my second original English book" - that meant I am satisfied and glad despite the fact it wasn't very easy. Well, you guys - acapnotic and Victor - are right. What about Easy-Breezy opinion I don't know... . Hey, Easy-Breezy, you see - three men against one nice girl! Didn't your soul hurt? Isn't your soul wounded? ;)
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Beginner пишет: 31 янв 2021, 18:21 I thought if we can use "уф" and "фу" in Russian for expression satisfaction after hard work, then I can use "ugh" (фу) in my expression.
To not shoot at interjections blindfolded, here's the link:
https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/interjections/
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Beginner пишет: 31 янв 2021, 18:21 Hey, Easy-Breezy, you see - three men against one nice girl! Didn't your soul hurt? Isn't your soul wounded?
Umm... Yah, ouchie... Boo-hoo and waah. :-)
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Easy-Breezy English, according to Victor's list, what you actually meant was this:
argh augh "Damn!" "Argh, the car won't work!" Annoyance, anger, frustration
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acapnotic, not really. Argh is stronger and angrier.
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Easy-Breezy English пишет: 31 янв 2021, 19:34 Argh is stronger and angrier.
LOL! What might it sound like I wonder?
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VictorB пишет: 31 янв 2021, 20:14 LOL! What might it sound like I wonder?
Well, I'm not a particularly angry person, just an annoyed and exasperated one, so don't ask me. :-))))

Look, here's ugh:
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/095f6bea-e ... 40e1fc3cb0
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/ff4bf10a-4 ... 6bbaa64102

And here's argh:
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/caf3f2c8-1 ... f69a2be6d4
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/2be5674b-f ... 0217c8a8d3

See the difference?
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Easy-Breezy English пишет: 31 янв 2021, 23:26 See the difference?
Oh, yes, I see the difference and that'll be enough for me to quit digging any deeper :)
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The final dialouge from the movie "The Matrix: Revolution". Agent Smith taks with NEO (Mr.Anderson).
In my version, agent Smith taks with me (Mr.Beginner).

Agent Smith:
"Why Mr.Beginner, why are you still struggling? Why are you still learning English? There are thousands of collocations and tens of thousands of words in English - you will never study them all. And you will never speak like a native speaker. We machines are the truth (genuine) future of this Earth. Soon, very soon, machines replace all (the)interpreters, absolutely all! It's pointless - to learn English. So why, why are you still struggling Mr.Begginer?"
I am answering: "Because... m.m... , it's my choice... ."
:)

I have some doubts about how better to express the russian words "почему вы упорствуете?". Maybe "Why are you persisting in it? why do you persist (in it)? why do you still stubborn?".
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Persist, probably. But I'm not sure.
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acapnotic пишет: 05 фев 2021, 21:32 Persist, probably.
Or persevere
Beginner пишет: 05 фев 2021, 20:31 why do you still stubborn
Why are you..., you mean, stubborn being an adjective?
The verb "persist" collocates with the adverb stubbornly (or doggedly)--so you can say "Why do you persist in... so stubbornly?"
To persevere means to persist steadfastly (yet another adverb collocating with "persist"), whereas to persist just means to go on stubbornly or resolutely.
So, it's up to you which one to use depending on the degree of unwillingness to stop doing something:)
To me, persevere seems somewhat stronger than persist, though, MHO)
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Beginner,
To further your English and with regard to your latest post, you might find helpful looking up the adjective "obstinate" and the adverb "obstinately".
Also, in dictionaries of collocations, you might find out which nouns the former and which verbs the latter collocate with.
https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/agreement
https://www.freecollocation.com/search?word=agreement
https://www.macmillandictionary.com//br ... merican/a/
http://ozdic.com/collocation-dictionary/agreement
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