Discussion Groups / English Usage / March 2007

hi, what's the difference between compassion and sympathy? Thank you.

Both A and B should be responsible for this.
In this sentence, among A and B, which one is more emphasized?

Is the following sentence grammatically correct?
 Let's go home, that I may sleep.
If it's correct, why? Does it mean something slightly different if the
word "so" is added after the comma?

Can I say
I understand everything in English
Otherwise, can I express it like this
I understand everything I am told in English

This is how the sentence would be structured in spanish
(It appears in the dictionary a useful meaning)
I know that it should be written ....
(A useful meaning appears in the dictionary)

Are the words performance and success synonyms? I was reading about
controling a business and I came across something called performance
standards. Any reason why they are not called success standards?
I am not a visual person so it is very difficult to develop new

Aaarrrgggggh.  Andrew Neil (a Scot) has just chosen Nimrod on Desert
Island Discs, claiming it to be "quintessentially British".
Well, not here, it isn't.  The British part of me is unmoved, but the
English part bathes in the luxurious wonderousness of the thing.

Raindrops vary in size and are not the shape of teardrops.
Raindrops begin  as round closed droplets.
Growing as they fall, raindrops experience resistance from the
air,causing them to flatten.

Overhearing (wife's watching) the Oscar speeches tonight, the writer
of the screenplay "Little Miss Sunshine" said the experience was the
"funnest thing he's ever done".
Did DEwhatever write a screenplay?

There is an article about autism, "Rare no more", in today's Washington
Post. It's perfect for Daniel McGrath and anyone else who connects
"rare" and "autism".
http://tinyurl.com/38g8zj