Discussion Groups / English Usage / October 2009

I do not understand the "bull-put" of the last sentence. How to
punctuate it, first. It is "bull-put", one word, or an explanation of
bull: "put credit spread below the 7.50 range. ". Or, there are other
ways to understand it. Please explain it for me. Thank you very much.

I know the substitution of I/he for me/him has been discussed here
before, but I want to get a feeling for the timing of the phenomenon. I
was under the (maybe wrong) impression that it is relatively recent,
starting in the 1980s.

I came across the following sentence in Greenspan's book, and could
not figure it out what the sentence "what, you didn't have any
etchings?" means? please help and with thanks.
Here what Greenspan writes.

A friend sent me this:
  http://www.insidehighered.com/layout/set/print/news/2009/10/13/apa
Apparently the American Psychological Association recently published
a new style guide for publications, but the guide itself contains so

I read the article about Oracle, see below. I don't know the last
sentence. Oracla has acquired Sun, I know. Sun's business is of course
part of Oracle. How to understand the last sentence? Thanks in
advance.

From the Washington Post Weekly Edition, September 28-October 4:
 But without technological advances to improve efficiency, it could
 threaten to wipe out the forage fish that lie at the bottom of the
 ocean's food chain and potentially contaminate parts of the sea.

Who is being instructed?

From a book I'm reading:  "You people here wouldn't let me have a
shufti at the bodies, Tommy.  Really should see them y'know."  Curry
talked in the same quirky shorthand all these upper class Harry
Poshers spoke...".

Re: "Between lamp and window"
Does the use of the singular and of the zero article in front of
"lamp" and "window"  in comparison with usual
"between the lamps and the windows"

In an article entitled "Wake up Europe!" in the October 10th issue of
The Economist, the writer coined the word "Europygmies" to describe
the usual faceless people in Belgium Europeans are used to reading
about and even voting for. To break this mold they offer, not

The following 5 items are the problems I have when reading
Steven Pinker's "Moral Instinct." Please help me out. Many
thanks for your reply!
1. "...whether they should be able to buy their way out of jury duty"

I found this article in the Times Online interesting:
"Cleverness is no more. This is a dumb Britain"
by Jeremy Clarkson
I don't know enough about present-day Britain to have an opinion on

Lecturer on bilingualism, getting us to participate in an activity:
Doble su papel.
Hector (from Guatemala, sitting behind me) to his mother: En ingles es
"bend".

The following two sentences are excerpted from one of my discussions
with Dave Korn:
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Re: "some such," about the feeling of it (and this is a general
question, not only in this translation)
Does it in any way, because of the adding of the relatively negligent
"some" to the serious "such," mean that the result, the compound "some