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| Understatement | 23 May 2009 22:22 GMT | 4 |
This from an article in the Sun on Paul McCartney's wish to have his
house removed from Google Streets
"Sir Paul, 66 — whose band had a hit with You’ve Got To Hide Your Love
Away — has been careful about security since bandmate JOHN LENNON was
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| Seven doors and a barbecue | 23 May 2009 19:45 GMT | 5 |
I can smell the from here.
Comments?
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| Washington- a profit center | 23 May 2009 19:10 GMT | 3 |
I would like help understanding this last paragraph from an article by
David Brooks on characteristics of successful CEO's especially the
sentence in quotes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/opinion/19brooks.html?_r=1&em
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| f.cking spammers | 23 May 2009 19:08 GMT | 5 |
Why on earth would one or two slimy cockroaches think for a moment that
this newsgroup is a fertile place in which to post their bullshit
articles for sale?
It's not as though they are spamming across all newsgroups, just
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| Donne: The Bait | 23 May 2009 15:16 GMT | 20 |
1. "Let others freeze with angling reeds"
I guess it means "not moving, freeze in wait while fishing?"
2. I wonder about the meaning of "betray" and "traitors"
in
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| the verb "accustomed" | 23 May 2009 14:57 GMT | 6 |
It is transitive and always seems to be used in the passive or with
the auxiliary verb "have". Why?
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| Computable knowledge | 23 May 2009 14:47 GMT | 103 |
Here's a site that claims to make the world's knowledge
computable.
http://www89.wolframalpha.com/
It seems to work all right for some operations. It gave me the
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| Donne: The Funeral | 23 May 2009 09:00 GMT | 4 |
I've no idea what Donne means by:
"As 'twas humility
To afford to it all that a Soul can do,"
in the last stanza.
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| "Half an hour later, and the night was quite dark." | 23 May 2009 08:56 GMT | 11 |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
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Half an hour later, and the night was quite dark.
[Alexandre Dumas (2008). The count of Monte Cristo (David Coward
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| BrE: the rain shall/will have stopped | 23 May 2009 05:53 GMT | 9 |
"By the time I'm going home, the rain shall/will have stopped."
Are both shall/will allowed in current-day BrE, in this context?
Thanks.
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| Amercian pronunication of Heintje? | 23 May 2009 04:03 GMT | 7 |
How do you pronounce this name from Holland: Heintje?
Is the American pronunciation.
Heen teh gee.
Heen teh gee.
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| Blake: Holy Thursday | 23 May 2009 03:31 GMT | 7 |
"Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of heaven among:"
seems to me to mean:
"Or like harmonious thunderings among the seats of heaven"
Still, seems a rare permutation.
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| Apostrophes and Possesives | 22 May 2009 22:14 GMT | 32 |
We are setting up a form on our web site. Should it be called "libary users'
forum", "library user's forum", or "library users forum"?
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| Guanfurra Daunur? ZARRABURDORAHAIRYWULLIE? | 22 May 2009 20:54 GMT | 4 |
A Glaswegian expression - what is the meaning of this.
and how about ZARRABURDORAHAIRYWULLIE? Any suggestions?
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| Diabetes and it's complications | 22 May 2009 20:14 GMT | 8 |
Yes, the subject header is an exact quotation from the title of
an article in "Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice", a
journal published by Elsevier (of recent "obviating" fame).
http://tinyurl.com/pmntto
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