Discussion Groups / English Usage / March 2006

I am working on 2 things. One is a slogan for a company, the other is a
sentence for an advertisement. The slogan is ABC Company - Redefining
executive recruiting. The sentence reads - ABC Company joins a proud
family tradition by redefining executive recruitment.

While discussing an article about a college student who attempted to
live in a Wal-Mart store for several days, the following quote was
challenged as grammatically incorrect:
"I just intuitively thought, 'This is brilliant!"' said Carol

"... Breaking copyright laws is seen not so much an illegal act as a way to
lower costs for the consumer and create profitable opportunities for the
network of music pirates."
The writer seems to inadvertently drop the "as", which normally follows

Just discovered this little jewel.  Don't remember
it having appeared on this group before, and didn't
see it in the FAQ:
http://www.bbcamerica.com/britain/dictionary.jsp

This is from tennis news:-)
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Golovin needed more than two hours to claim victory on Jie's fourth
double fault. Jie had been the first Chinese woman reach the last

I was under the impression that the correct usage is "Enamored of..."
as in "a young lady he was enamored of." That the commonly used
"Enamored with" is incorrect.
Agree? Disagree?

I had a dream last night in which I was suddenly reminded of some term
that I had supposedly come across way back in my childhood -- the word
"standrix".  I think I might have even remembered seeing the entry in
a dictionary, so that I could then tell what it meant.

In a discussion in another forum:
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http://tinyurl.com/pjcuu
A-It is a knife such as surgeons use.

One of those linguistic curiosities: I watch television, but when I go
to the cinema I don't watch a movie, I see it. No one ever says "he's at
the cinema, watching a movie". Or even "what's he watching?" about
someone at the cinema. It's "what's he seeing?" or "what has he gone ...

Someone recently made here a remark about punctuation of
multiple adjectives that showed a need for clarification of
the relevant principles.
Take, for example, the phrase "wet green paint".  It can be

I am used to the use of Roman numerals to date
films and TV shows.  But, I have noticed that
no one ever used:
MIM for 1999

GHits
untensils 53,500
untensil 24,100
GHit ratio

The woodpidgeon (Palumba columbus) has a distinct phrase:
"Da DAH DAH da-da .... da DAH DAH da-da"
Well, more or less ...
In Danish, this has always been 'translated' into

Hi! Could you please tell me what it means to "give a good discharge", as
in:
"Agent is authorised to give a good discharge for any monies payable under
any of the finance documents."?

Regarding my identical second post question about brackets, that was a
mistake on my part.
When attempting to post the first bracket question, I did not think my
post was accepted, due to problems I was having with the Internet at