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Old Eladio Posted 20 years ago
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Can it rain frogs?
Dear friends from EnglishForward. I have translated a curious (to me at least) text from Spanish into English and I would need that you help me in correcting it, please. I don’t know if the length is the proper one for this kind of solicitude and I will understand if you feel reluctant to correct the text.
Anyway, thank you in advance,
Eladio
Can it rain frogs?
The strong whirls of wind and some air currents produced by rain clouds can carry themselves endless and the most dissimilar objects. These objects are caught by the cloud until they precipitate to earth at certain distance from where they were lifted, that can cause the astonishment of the witnesses of the show. There is numerous of these cases reported in noted scientific journals as Monthly Weather Review, Nature or Scientific American.
These reports not only tell us about frog rains, but also of toads, honors, spiders, snails, mussels, scarabs, ants without wings and worms. Besides it is said about even stranger precipitations, as that one it is said that happened in Sicily in 746, when it rained crosses.
The 30th of July in 1838 it is said that in the very London heart, the pedestrians were surprised by a celestial avalanche of frogs and tadpoles. In the summer of 1804, in the proximities of Toulouse, it is said that took place a rain of young toads. The 28th of December in 1857, during a heavy storm, the sidewalks of Montreal, in Canada, were literally covered by hundreds of mussels. The most celebrated fish storm, more concretely of certain river fish, happened in England the 11th of February in 1859.
Conrad Lycosthenes in his work "Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicom" says that he saw a toad rain in 1345, and he mentions that a strange precipitation of fish took place in the year 989 in Saxon. Anyway, does not it seem to you that it is very strange that since 1859 people have not reported the occurrence of such events?
Anyway, thank you in advance,
Eladio
Can it rain frogs?
The strong whirls of wind and some air currents produced by rain clouds can carry themselves endless and the most dissimilar objects. These objects are caught by the cloud until they precipitate to earth at certain distance from where they were lifted, that can cause the astonishment of the witnesses of the show. There is numerous of these cases reported in noted scientific journals as Monthly Weather Review, Nature or Scientific American.
These reports not only tell us about frog rains, but also of toads, honors, spiders, snails, mussels, scarabs, ants without wings and worms. Besides it is said about even stranger precipitations, as that one it is said that happened in Sicily in 746, when it rained crosses.
The 30th of July in 1838 it is said that in the very London heart, the pedestrians were surprised by a celestial avalanche of frogs and tadpoles. In the summer of 1804, in the proximities of Toulouse, it is said that took place a rain of young toads. The 28th of December in 1857, during a heavy storm, the sidewalks of Montreal, in Canada, were literally covered by hundreds of mussels. The most celebrated fish storm, more concretely of certain river fish, happened in England the 11th of February in 1859.
Conrad Lycosthenes in his work "Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicom" says that he saw a toad rain in 1345, and he mentions that a strange precipitation of fish took place in the year 989 in Saxon. Anyway, does not it seem to you that it is very strange that since 1859 people have not reported the occurrence of such events?
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You can minimize the presence of dates (which are not really very important here) by writing them as I have. I have also suggested other changes: Can it rain frogs? The strong whirls of wind and air currents produced by rain clouds can carry endless and extremely dissimilar objects.
- You can minimize the presence of dates (which are not really very important here) by writing them as I have.
- I have also suggested other changes: Can it rain frogs?
- The strong whirls of wind and air currents produced by rain clouds can carry endless and extremely dissimilar objects.
- These objects are caught up by the cloud until they precipitate to earth at a distance from where they were lifted, to the astonishment of witnesses to this show.
- Numerous such cases have been reported in noted scientific journals like the Monthly Weather Review , Nature and Scientific American .
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You can minimize the presence of dates (which are not really very important here) by writing them as I have. I have also suggested other changes:
Can it rain frogs?
The strong whirls of wind and air currents produced by rain clouds can carry endless and extremely dissimilar objects. These objects are caught up by the cloud until they precipitate to earth at a distance from w
Can it rain frogs?
The strong whirls of wind and air currents produced by rain clouds can carry endless and extremely dissimilar objects. These objects are caught up by the cloud until they precipitate to earth at a distance from w
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Thanks a lot, Mister Micawber.
fish instead of honors. I don't know how this word went there!
Eladio
fish instead of honors. I don't know how this word went there!
Eladio
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In AmEng we often say that it rains 'cats and dogs'. I was caught in one such storm a month ago and stepped in a poodle. 
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This occurrance is not so rare as you think. It happens occasionally in the US and happened today where I live in Japan.
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While hitch hiking from Dallas, Texas to Lubbock in the summer of 1963. We were in an isolated stretch of road near Crosbyton, Texas when a storm blew up. There were moderate winds but the sky was a iridescent green color and it began to rain toads. Everyone I have ever told about this thinks I'm crazy or just trying to get attention.
The toads hit on our car and on the road. It only hap
The toads hit on our car and on the road. It only hap
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