Discussion Groups / English Usage / December 2006

Is "Jianhua Li" a suitable name for a boy?
How do you pronounce the first name and last name respectively?
How to pronounce the Chinese young pianist's name "Yundi Li"?
Thank you.

Which difference do you see between "swinging" and "swaying" in this
context? Or are they identical and it's just an repetition for
intensification?
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What is the meaning of "fell" in:
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at/in one fell swoop
if you do something at one fell swoop, you do everything you have to

My family and I noticed that sometimes when combining the names of two
nationalities (or continents), the first one gets "conjugated" in a
bizarre way.  Here is the list, as much as I can come up with:
Indian -> Indo

          I have encounter a sentence as follows: "Simply not being Mr
Koizumi will be a helpful start."
I am not quite understand about the grammatical structure of "Simply
not being ...". Please help to explain this sentence's grammar.

A good start is the half of a success

This might not be the right group, so please show me another if it
isn't. But this question has begged me for a long time... Why is it
said that Oriental Asia (China, India, Nepal, Bangla Desh, Japan,
Koreas, etc.) is "across the Pacific / Coruscic Ocean" from America,

Which difference do you see between "pulling" and "hauling" in this
context (and in general)? Or are they identical and the repetition so
created is just an intensifier?
Also, what would be the "case" mentioned in the para?

Let me ask a question about the meaning of a phrase from a novel.
He's got more mouth than a sheep and here his daddy's poor as Job's
turkey. That's right, Hattie.
Durn if his daddy don't foller the water even when it's the dog days

I used to think it was transitive (?"I woke her", ?"Wake him!") but now
I'm not so certain anymore, and I'm not sure if those examples I just
listed are correct English.  Of course we have the very weird,
irregular "to wake up", which, when used transitively, actually

Yahoo headline today:
  1 missing climber's body found in China
I could not help wondering how the heck it got to China.

In today's Guardian is a review, originally published in 1920, of
Wilfred Owen's poems. The author is shown only as "CP".
It includes the following:
"Others have shown the disenchantment of war, have unlegended the

Hey, someone in my group project at school was wanting to use the
phrase "first largest" for consistency (e.g., Canada is the first
largest country in North America) because we use the phrases "second
largest," "third largest," etc. throughout our paper but I wanted to

Money talks, bullshit walks.
I'm with stupid.
Been there, done that.