Discussion Groups / English Usage / March 2006

I am new comer in this groups.
I would like to ask you regarding the following sentences and what do
they mean :
1. What does she look like ?

Wikipedia's list of words that change meaning when you cross the pond
has got me thinking again
http://tinyurl.com/dhabl
as somebody added this

In the following question and answer, which of the two will have the
better chance to be the right response?
Q: How do you like your coffee?
A: (1) With cream and sugar. (2) It's great.

Could someone tell me, without saying RTFuckingManual, how to set my
Quotefix so that I don't have to re-engage it everytime I switch my computer
on?
P.

Hi, I seek information about English schools in Cambridge. I plan to go
to study English there.
thanks
Toto

I'd heard an unusual use of "snap" a few times in The Boondocks cartoon
series recently, as in, "oh snap." Similarly featured in the VW
commercial where the German guy unpimps a ride (more like "schnap").
My brother the middle-school teacher informs me that it's popular with

.... as in the name of the Spanish painter, Velazquez.
thanks,
P.

 I have made theses observations:
   - The only source, where clothes are »washed down« is
     »Isis« (a song by Bob Dylan): »went into a laundry
     to wash my clothes down«

You know, by interface is meant a surface forming a  commonboundary between
adjacent regions, bodies, substances or phases or similar to that.
and long  since i 've been puzzled about seeking a right preposition to
collocate this word, which one should i select ? in, on  or at ? ...

can the word brunette ever be used on a black-haired girl?
In English, there's the trilogy of blonde, brunette, and red-head, but
there's no similar term for a black-haired girl. Why's that?
i'm trying to extract any ethonology out of this linguistic situation.

What is correct the use of::
coworker vs. co-worker
regardless vs. irregardless.
I would like to know how to correctly use both words.  Please help

Is there a simple answer? Are "well" and "more" not both adverbs
modifying an adjective? I can see the first one is fine hyphenated, but
cannot see the second hyphenated. Any guidance please?

My name is Xingpu, a PhD student in Journalism from Southern Illinois
University. I am doing an online survey on people's opinions about
Internet advertising and would like to invite a diversity of people to
participate. The more diverse, the better. That is why I am here.

Just for sh.ts and giggles, I searched the Web (not newsgroups) with Google,
using the first line of my signature text as the search criterion.
It is amazing how many discussion forums copy some of the messages posted to
AUE.  Wild.  It's duplication of Usenet stuff.  I wonder, ...

Marmite in squeezy tubes?
This horrifying prospect is described at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/0,,1730330,00.html