Discussion Groups / English Usage / May 2007

Just received a nice, chatty letter from "Chuck".  (I just don't think
of Charles as "Chuck", but that's what he signs)
He mentions (favorably) Dena Jo, Sara Lorimer, and Bob Lieblich.  He's
adjusting to the food, but not so favorably impressed with that.

As/when Oskar Schindler was asked, why he had risked his life to save
the Jews...
Which conjuction do I need? Thanks!

As/when Oskar Schindler was asked, why he had risked his life to save
the Jews...
Which conjunction do I need? Thanks!

A striking turn of phrase from the NYT, on a new creationist museuim.
"Evolution gets its continual comeuppance, while biblical revelations
are treated as gospel."
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Please watch and listen below for a while,
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The girl in a movie seems like keep saying,
"Am I bothered?"

I just reread The Rebel Angels, by Robertson Davies, and was struck by
the following sentence:
"Where, I wondered, had Arthur picked up such a friend, who was as
near as our modern age allows to what used to be called a matinee

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A few times now, I;ve hear an expression that goes something like or
exactly like "that don't mean squat to a tree." Is this phrase a reply
to something someone says about something that nobody could give two
hoots about?

Three times in the last week on BBC news programmes I've
heard the construction "xx month year old" used to describe
very small children. The first two occasions were during
interviews, but the third, just now, was in a prepared

With the help of the Jews Oscar Schindler later established a cement
factory in Frankfurt. But it soon went bankrupt. He was never
successful in the industry after the war.
Two questions to the sentence above:

Would the phrase "a stereotype on a stick" mean someone who is the
embodiement of some particular stereotype. I once heard the phrase
"Jesus on a stick," so I made up this one and I just checked in Yahoo!
to see if it was already invented, and didn't get any examples of it.

I was wondering if anyone could provide me with the right answer
regarding the following question:
What grammatical category does the the word "worth" in "The car isn't
worth the money." belong to?

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What's the difference between
"it is not surprised that" and "it is not surprising that"?
Thank you in advance.
Mike

I can' t decide whether to use 'thereby" in the following sentence,
though I like the sentence better with it for some reason  I was thus
wondering what people here would advise.
"The detective logically associated the evidence, thereby revealing