Discussion Groups / English Usage / February 2004

Here is an email I received from my capmus Public Safety department, at "1:26
PM" on Monday December 8, 2003, today.  Now, it's pretty much a given that the
people who work Public Safety here can't write for sh.t.  But can anyone make
heads or tails of this message?  My room mate, I ...

When Young Joey burst into the room, one of his early contributions
was the validity of the word "funnest".  I seem to remember some
responders evidencing a certain amount of resistance.
Today, Dan Patrick was interviewing Jay Williams on the ESPN sports

From "Bad Boys", the guy said 'whup his a.s'.  Now I don't find 'whup'
in dictionary, but I guess it's close to 'whip', right?  Why the word
'whup' anyway?  Black English?

Two new pictures have been added to the AUE Photo Gallery:
Joe Fineman <http://alt-usage-english.org/AUE_gallery/joe_fineman.html>
DE781 (Joe) <http://alt-usage-english.org/AUE_gallery/de781.html>

I am about to have all of the following done - but first... Does anyone know
how the following names came about? Is there an English equivalent for the
Sanskrit-like words?
Ampallang

I can't find the thread, but someone asked about
using the Ms Word "Save as filtered HTML" command to
convert a Word doc to a Web page. The poster expressed
bemusement over the fact that the browser's "text size"

Is there a word in English for "embossed seal"? Something like "apostile"?

This is from "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee, a fiction mainly talks
about his interracial relation with his White wife.  I don't
understand well a few things on the next two paragraphs.
    I read through the list twice sitting in our car in the terminal

I'm using OE6 (with QuoteFix) , and I wonder if any
other OE users get the same weirdness.
If I click 'Reply to Group' when I have a post from
Spero Pefhany open, the reply message composition

Dear group
I've read quite a lot of Agatha Christie over the past years (being a
longtime fan). AC's England, especially in the pre-WWII books, contain a
social system that I only know from her books and the movies.

I saw a sign today that read, "No unauthorised parking".  Obviously.
David

What's wrong with "disembarking"?
And if you "deplane" at the end of a journey, surely you must "plane" at the
beginning..........?

Last week I was listening to a radio program that featured Brigitte
Boisselier of Clonaid, a Raelian organisation that claims to have
recently cloned a human embryo, and produced a live birth.
In the course of the interview, Ms Boisselier referred to the day when

I started a new thread to not distract from the old thread.
In one of the school districts I lived in, there was no PTA (parent
teacher association).  Instead there was a Triangle Club, parents,
teachers, and kids.  And although I agree that one shouldn't ignore

I have problems with "if" and "when". Somehow I get the feeling that "if"
implies a stronger possibility when both expressions are applicable.
Of course, I am aware that "when" implies time, but what about these
sentences: