Discussion Groups / English Usage / March 2008

In:
"such a happy fall of ground"
could fall by any means signify
"relief/shape/configuration?"

I wonder what is the preference in prescriptive/traditional BrE in:
"You know one should/would not like to have"
Is it the "should" or the "would?"
How about today?

I read the "come round" definition in dictionary and it said: "come
round: to visit sb or a place. Ex: Do you want to come round for lunch?".
But the meaning of "come round" in that example can't be "visit a
place". I think it should be like "go somewhere".

A pair of teenage boys were/was smoking cigarettes.
Are both verbs acceptable in the above sentence?
Thank you for your answer!!

Which if the following sentences is correct?
" I sometimes seem like who I am not."
Or
"I sometimes seem like whom I am not".

My teacher told me that exists a polite way to ask someone to speak a
clear and slow english to facilitate the comprehention.
It is maybe an acronym.
Could you please tell me that term?

YOUR COLONEL doesn't believe it.  And judging from what he's seen thus
far, the answer becomes a definite "NO!"  Judging by what YOUR WAR
HERO has seen thus far, someone doesn't have a whole lot of anything
to do.  I'll put THIS LUZER right up there with Percy Pervert, Chilly

This is a story 'bout a boy named Chuck,
A fat-faced little chipmunk that the boys all like to f.ck;
He gargled lots of samples and never spilt a drop,
He liked it on the bottom but showed talent on the top.

Mark Liberman has an interesting poost today on LanguageLog
    http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005485.html#more
about how Google translation can translate "made in Austria" (from
German, these words being as I've written them) as "made in USA", with

Is it really necessary to knead the dough in order to make bread?
What happens if you just mix the flour,salt,sugar,yeast etc and
bake it?

I am an English teacher in China. When I was preparing for a lecture
on stock investment, there is a passage taken from the Fortune
magazine stoped me there for more than 2 hours. There is no difficulty
for my to understand all the words and sentences literally, but I was

Some flowers, together with a love letter, were sent to her.
The principle, together with the teachers, is going to attend a
meeting.
You, like everybody elae, have 2 teet.

"Ernie Primeau" <ernietoo@webtv.net> wrote in message news:...
I can teach you.Ernie

AS THE SUPREME COMMANDER OF SOC.PENPALS, I URGE ALL MY RECRUITS TO
PROSTRATE YOURSELVES BEORE YOUR COLONEL!
ALL HAIL THE COLONEL!

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