Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2007

If a place name if guzhu, how to denote its people and language,
guzhunese, guzhuan or others?

Am I being filtered out as a worthless eater?
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There was a line in an episode of "Two and a Half Men" which I just
don't get language-wise.
Charly says to a rather strange (tall) woman "My weirdness bar for
chicks is pretty high but you are clearing it in street shoes".

If a place name is guzhu, how to denote its people and language,
guzhunese, guzhuan or others?

It would be "awesome" if "TomKat" "went missing"
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Wed Jan 3, 2007 8:09 AM ET

I am having a problem with a word, or actually having difficulties
using it in a sentence. The word is 'Extraneous'. I got the definition
for it, and I got a couple of examples, but they're kind of difficult
for me to understand the way to use it in a sentence. I have a test

Is this "white socks held up by a dab of soap" a figure of speech or a
real practice in those years? (1910 or thereabouts)
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[Jack Burden describes his childhood friend, Anne Stanton]

I have some sentences that are navigation instructions to the reader.
There are composed of multiple clauses with an implied subject of
"you."
Here is an example:

We focus on e business solutions at low prices serving the needs of
small to medium businesses all over the world. We offer a wide range of
custom web site design development and seo services at affordable
prices starting from small presentation sites to complex

Any connotations in "biscuit-eaters?"
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The second day I was in Texas. I was traveling through the part where
the flat-footed bilious, frog-sticker-toting Baptist biscuit-eaters

There was a line in an episode of "Two and a Half Men" which I just
don't get language-wise.
Charly says to a rather strange (tall) woman "My weirdness bar for
chicks is pretty high but you are clearing it in street shoes".

Today's e-mail from Howard Dean starts: