Discussion Groups / English Usage / September 2007

"They're looking to sell their house before it becomes completely
worthless."
What do you think of this sort of use of "looking to" to mean "intend"
of "hope to"?

Hi, I am from Russia, and am new lerner an English language,can some
one help me?tnks

Hallo,everyone.
wo can tell me the meaning of homescreen in the mobilephone-words!
thanks

Can we use nouns instead of gerunds after the "from"?
"We must prevent children from traffic accidents." is all right?
Thanks in advance.

Hi there ...
Thank you for reading this message .
Did you here about Islam? I mean the real Islam...
Do you have some questions in your religion and you don't have the

One sentence in the paper I am currently editing begins with
"There is no discussion".
MS Word's grammar checker suggests that I change it to
"There is not no discussion".

I see PHOTOS Pictures pictures
at http://www.tradingphotos.com

I am sure everyone around here is just waiting to cop the latest bape,
bape hoodies, bape shoes, bape clothing or something similar from the
hip hop genre of clothing.
Thankfully, I have come accross the Bape Store it is:

A panelist on a recent foreign trip had occasion to use a word--some
might call it a proper noun--that is found on the Web and in books but
is not in the OED or Webster's Third. It was apparently used in French
earlier but is not in any French dictionary he could find. What is the

Why would a cat and not, say, a dog or cow or duck or donkey, have my
tongue?

Dhone as a Caption serving team India as mother
and Yuvraj as father then what we would say about seniors like
sachin , dravid, gangualy.

I need to get a copy of the tapes for the basic tactics for listening
series. I have all the ones for delevloping and expanding, but for
some reason the basic tactics ones are not good anymore. i now know to
make backup copies.

I had to listen-again to this evening's main BBC R4 News four times
before I finally decided that the report on obesity in Scotland
actually included an interview with Dr Colin Fischbacher.
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?

Earlier this evening I saw and heard part of Robert Mugabe's
anti-British rant in the UN.
I was amused by the fact that the speech was written in BrE
and was delivered in an accent that was an Africanised

European men used to be vain about their legs - to the point where
they knew which leg was the best looking. These men would place their
"best foot forward."  - from www.odd-info.com