Discussion Groups / English Usage / November 2006

hi everyone, I need your help...
I need some informatin about Basque language. ...
- Is there a passive construction in basque ?
If there is how its constructed. If there is not, instead which feature

The "Here's the house a regular hen-coop!" thows me.
I'd have expected:
"Here the house is a regular hen-coop!"
or

Does the following sentence mean the baseball game ended?
"The baseball game went down already."
Thanks!
-- DJ

Just saw an episode of Entourage, where Turtle and Drama are playing a
videogame and the following vonversation occurs:
- So you're a little glitch bitch!
- Blame the game makers, don't blame the player, hater!

I saw a recent Burger King commercial about their Italian chicken sandwich,
with the tagline being "You got a problem with that?"
It caused me to wonder if the battle over using the inflected form as
present tense is pretty well lost in American English?

almost as good a read
as alt.-aol-sucks used to be
i recently posted there but nobody else does

What does "revel" mean in this context:
"This form will in no way revel your e-mail address. This will only work
for domains
registered with Schlund + Partner".

Xah's Diary, 2006-11-07
In the past year, i've been using “et al.” to mean “and others
(things)”, as opposed to “and others (persons)”. Today, it came
upon me whether my usage is proper.

Is "to see back (to)" an idiom?
Couldn't track anything re "to see back."
----
As she spoke their eyes met, and it was as if Mr. Wilcox's defences

She make her wish known to her classmates that she ____ Hongkong
University to continue her study.
A should go to      B would go to    C will go to
The right answer is C, but I choose B and I still can't understand why

It's quite common - in the UK at least - for people to say,
non-standardly, "I was stood" or "I am stood" instead of "I was
standing" or "I am standing" (for example, "I was stood outside the
pub, when...")

I've recently encountered the phrasing: "Analogously to [citation], we do
such and such". It immediately struck me as sounding wrong, but since
English is not my first language, I wanted to make sure before I corrected
it. A google search for the string "analogously to" turns up ...

Inadvertently I  initiated a discussion on a touchy subject in an
inappropriate thread. Since there are people who obviously have things
to say on that touchy subject I try to correct the situation by opening
this new thread for pertinent discussion.

The talk station on the car radio today was all breathless (as is its
inexplicable wont about just about everything) about some evangelical
operative who got busted, it seems, because, the radio said, he "got a
massage from a male prostitute."

I'm wondering if the following three sentences are identical in meaning:
1. He plays the guitar.
2. He plays guitars.
3. He plays guitar.