Discussion Groups / English Usage / September 2008

In the sentence "An act or instance of slighting indifference or
treatment" is the word slighting an adjective or an adverb?"

A eager pol recently said the following:
'McCain-Palin spokesman Tucker Bounds said Obama's negative attacks
show he is increasingly desperate. "Senator John McCain and Governor
Sarah Palin have shook up the establishment and delivered real

"Force abilities such as Drain life and Death field siphoned vitality
to offer an equivalent effect of Force Healing, the difference being
that the regenerative processes in the user was fueled draining the
targets."

I know this is an English group, but I hesitate to post in English in a
German group, and I know that at least one extremely qualified German
speaker (Rey Aman) reads this group.
More than thirty years ago I failed German 'O' Level, dismally.  Armed with

Dutch has the expression:
'Zo de waard is vertrouwt hij zijn gasten'?
(lit. as is the inn keeper so he trusts his guests)
The inn keeper suspects everyone

I think I understand the origin for most of these monikers, except for
"Grassy Gert".
Would that be a mistress abandonned/neglected by her underground sex
partners, and thus inclined to talk to the police?

I've just started Morley's work on Cromwell, and he uses the word
"clenchers" that I couldn't find in Webster's online or
thefreedictionary online. Here's the context:
"to insist upon long series of unqualified clenchers in history and

More high intelligence coming out of the Muslim world.
     Muslim Cleric Says Mickey Mouse Is Satanic
     ...declared "one of Satan's soldiers" by an
     Islamic cleric.

So then, if the following sentences were to be parsed, what would the
subjects be?
1. Environment/weather/time:  It is raining.
2. Extraposition:  It is unlikely that Sam passed the test.

On another newsgroup I read, one of the posters recently started a
Google Map to allow us to visualize where we all are.  I thought that
that would be a neat and useful thing for AUE, so I set up one myself.
I tried to make a web page that embedded the map, but it crashed my

I think it's time to call this a competition.  Wrap-up tomorrow.
--
Jerry Friedman, T. O. Panelist

           I have written a brief guide about a software I have created
for the macintosh computer and was wondering if anyone might check out
the following text. I would really appreciate that!
/// OVERVIEW \\\

Why is the name "maggot" given to hardcore slipknot fans? What's the
meaning of the term?

I want to express that the value of pi, as far as the seven first
decimals are concerned, is 3.1415926. But, how do I go about saying
this (as the above is a bit clumsy)? I mean, what is the mathematical
wording to express this?

What is the difference between "Persic" and "Persian"?