Discussion Groups / English Usage / May 2009

Does anyone know the word for someone who dislikes/hates/loathes them
self?
I know that narcissistic is someone who loves them self but I am
looking for the opposite.

Does:
"what though it be?"
mean
"what could it be (but (a new) day)?"

have a furrowed brow during his harrowing experience?

I am looking for an English idiom which I cannot remember the correct
form of. It is something like "missing out" or "missing out on" -
e.g. Don't you think you're /missing out on/ something when you are not
having any time to play with your classmates?

Sometimes,I get way too irritated with things I read or hear.
Here's one example:
Excerpt from CNBC's Web site yesterday (May 11, 2009):
< http://www.cnbc.com/id/30682967 >

Is
'We ought to be getting back, too'
thus the progressive form, more polite, in this case, than
'We ought to get back, too'?

"Why?" you might ask.
So that we can perform studies on the various properties of language
as they relate to its day-to-day use. For instance, it may turn out
that words with primarily unvoiced consonants are more or less likely

I was wondering the difference between the phrases "took it too far"
and "has taken it too far." If you could help me out with this, I
would appreciate it.

     Thank you for having explained to me what "point-and shoot
snappers" are in the last one.  Can anybody help me explain the
following sentence?
     There are plenty of models from which to choose: from simple$200

I hadn't heard of it officially until to day but it
seems the proper medical antonym of placebo
is "nocebo".
I haven't looked in a dictionary or grimoire of

There is disagreement between my colleagues and me about the answer to
this blank. Since you have been so helpful and knowledgeble, would you
please help me with this one?  The text is printed below for your
reference.

Using financial vernacular, banks, etc., sometimes write, "We
acknowledge your transfer in the amount of £5000". Others write: "to
the amount of £5000" and some of us lesser mortals sometimes write
"for the amount of £5000".

Hey does anybody know what this is called, or whether there are any
sites where people practice this type of creative sentence making?
Its where you have two sentence merged into one, for example:
sHE SMILED and sat BACK AND just STARED as she thought on mATters of

"compared to"
"compared with"
Synonymous?
Always?

Some of you, especially in the UK, might remember the actor Charles
"Bud" Tingwell, who died in Melbourne today at the age of 86.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/15/2572245.htm