Discussion Groups / English Usage / February 2008

Re
"I mention this in this place, of a fixed purpose, because it is the
clue ..."
at the end.

This may be of some interest to Mr. Lieblich:-)
I wonder what
"he wasn't brought up to evidence"
means.

Writing an email, I was about to write the following:
"I hope you don't mind me calling you ..."
However, upon closer inspection the construction struck me as slightly
odd and difficult to 'vet' grammatically. I also remembered the

I got there at 1:58.  
She arrived--in a tutu--at two to two, too.

Can someone explain a term constructed like Louis the German, i.e.
name + the + name/adj. In what circumstances will this kind of term
used?  I ask because I come up with an idea to invent a brand name in
this way like, Productname, the Inventor...

Riding bareback can mean having sexual intercourse with no
condom.  Can it also mean doing the Internet with no
protection from antibadguy software?

It's about the final sentence in the enclose quotation.
I am confused about a small point in it.
Let me mention that there's an "it" and not a "he" in it, in both my
printed copy and on the Web. Thus, not a typo, it seems.

The U.S. National Science Foundation is supporting college programs in
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).  St. Francis
University in Pennsylvania recently got a grant for a program called
STEMing the Flow: Connecting Undergraduates with Applied Science.  I'm

Re:
"go to the devil and and shake yourselves"
Is this said with the slang meaning of
"go to the devil and HURRY (yourselves) UP (in doing it)?"

What are "deep trimmings?"
------
"Poor soul!" Camilla presently went on (I knew they had all been looking
at me in the mean time), "he is so very strange! Would anyone believe

By serendipity, I received a magazine this am which included a poem making
use of the 'the devil' expression we have discussed recently:
 A mountebank out in the market one day
Cried he to mankind would the devil display.

Is this sentence correct?
"I translate between German, English, French, Russian and Italian."

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& childrens as per your requirement. then please contact
tks.
hassan

I read this sentence somewhere, and I am wondering if the word 'be'
means like 'whether', or 'regardless'.
"Again XYZ delivered a good speech, be it the same one or a new one".
Views?

When Your Colonel returned from his gardening yesterday, there on the
kitchen counter lay a large green Cucumis sativa.  "Who put this
here?" Your Colonel mused.  He described it as green, but in fact it
appeared nearly black, it was so ripe, he thought.  He reached out and