Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2004

Famous photographer Helmut Newton, 83, who died Friday in Los Angeles
after apparently losing control of his brand-new Cadillac and crashing
into a wall, had a name that aroused my interest, as "Helmut" is German
and "Newton" is English.

Any Nipponophiles out there know what an 'archery parlour' is?
"Our other regular haunt was an archery parlour in Nagata Street,
where the proprietress never tired of reminding us how years before,
when she had been working as a geisha in Akihara, Mori-san had used

Sky News Channel's latest puff for itself proclaims breathlessly that later
this month they will offer full coverage of the 'Hajj Pilgrimage'
--
John Dean

A question on in-(or non-)defining (or definable) clauses. I realize
that the following would be an example of one:
       His wife, whom he loved dearly, left him for the milkman.
It exists as a non-definable clause as it adds extra information to

then do you think the first is a little bit better than the second.
(1) The night your wife and you came .....
(2) The night you and your wife came......

By now it is well established how the early years of this century will
be pronounced: by one and all, nearly enough. You heard it here in the
late 20th century from those of us who know sh.t from Shinola, as the
saying goes. I'd like to point out that the dozen, or so, people here

Parrot's oratory stuns scientists
By Alex Kirby
BBC News Online environment correspondent  
BBC

Here is a sentence from a masonic ritual:
"JD lowers alms-dish and, if Candidate does not answer quickly, proceeds
with second question: Were you deprived of everything valuable previously to
entering the Lodge?"

Ok, this is a few years later, but it is still relevant. I have hear of
people getting bills for £0.00p with demands for service termination if it
is not paid. I had a rather amusing incident happen to me, but it was
Readers Digress.

I'm from Poland and currently I'm writing a paper about cognitive
aspect of the concept of SHAME. I gathered a corpus of expressions,
yet it is still too small. I'd be very grateful if you could support
me with some idioms/metaphors of shame. Google gave me few like:

I heard this on "Monk" last Friday, and now I am trying to find a good
comparison of these two terms. What I have found on-line is unspecific
and usually has these as synonyms.
TIA

I would be glad if you could help me with these sentences.
Is the following sentence correct?
They have printed a personal account because the kids who read this magazine
may get the facts of bullying more clearly when they get a concrete example

Headline in press release today: "Boise Cascade Says Bottom Behind It".
But you couldn't say "... Behind Bottom It".
Fascinating.
Cheers, Sage

I finally figured out how to get all the AUE posts from 1991 through 1994 that
I was missing the last time I'd Googled it!  It really does look like 1991 is
the beginning of the AUE.  Here's the only real original left's first AUE post,
13 years ago:

There,s a new film coming out with Mel Gibson
its about the crucifixion of Christ
Iv just heard a Rabi and a Cristian disccusing
it, neither of them seemed impressed with the content