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| Irarq, Irarn, Commarnd, Starnce ... WHY !!??? | 30 Nov 2009 23:31 GMT | 1 |
total & utter bollox.
It is NOT regional speak.
It's pure toffee-nosed , arsehole-speak.
Putting unneccessary "R"s ( aahs ) after the letter *A* is annoying
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| because and ,because | 30 Nov 2009 23:12 GMT | 1 |
Let me ask you about two sentences below.
1) The barometer has fallen, because it is raining.
2) The barometer has fallen because it is raining.
With the presence or absence of a pause, is there any substantial
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| Gated community | 30 Nov 2009 13:32 GMT | 10 |
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| James: at least | 30 Nov 2009 12:25 GMT | 2 |
Does "at least" mean "in the least?"
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[Miss Gostrey talks to Strether about meeting, years ago, Mme Vionnet,
her former school-mate]
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| James: so you'll be so good ... to consider it! | 30 Nov 2009 12:02 GMT | 2 |
"so you'll be so good ... to consider it!"
I expected here an inversion:
"so will you be so good ... to consider it?"
but with the interrogative.
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| James: wealth/poverty | 30 Nov 2009 11:27 GMT | 1 |
Could he refer to anything but _financial_ "wealth/poverty?" I don't
think it's about a "wealth of evidence."
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[Strether meets Mme Vionnet, Chad's friend, at a party. It seems he's
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| When reading a quote, I doubt that changed sentences have different meanings or ungrammartical structures. | 30 Nov 2009 08:02 GMT | 10 |
A. "I became filled with a great desire to show people this wonderful
loveliness, ambition to preserve it."
B. "I became possessed with a great desire to show people something of
this wonderful loveliness, an ambition to become, in some measure, its
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| Live Black or Die | 30 Nov 2009 03:16 GMT | 1 |
Jesse Dorland wrote:
> On Nov 29, 3:47 pm, Bill McCray <billmcc...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>> Jesse Dorland wrote:
>>> My friend said this to me two or three days ago. She is Canadian |
| People I have virtually met. | 30 Nov 2009 01:22 GMT | 24 |
I wander'd lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils,
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| What shape is your building? | 30 Nov 2009 00:58 GMT | 45 |
Ploughing through the morning e-post, I came across an invitation (not
likely to be accepted, mind) to a 'debate over what shapes demand for
green buildings' and was thoroughly puzzled. It took me a noticeable
amount of time (i.e., reading the rest of the thing) to work out that
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| origin of stay black and die | 30 Nov 2009 00:51 GMT | 7 |
Does anyone who does this quote came from " The only thing I have to
do is stay
black and die!?
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| James: he was at last .... | 29 Nov 2009 22:53 GMT | 10 |
I have a difficulty connecting "he was at last ..." to the rest of the
sentence. Where/which are the grammatical connectors?
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[Miss Gostrey hadn't been able to satisfy Strether's curiosity about
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| James: experience/adventure | 29 Nov 2009 15:17 GMT | 5 |
I wonder what would be your first reading of "experience" in contrast
with "adventures" in
"an amount of experience out of any proportion to his adventures"
It looks like "wisdom" to me.
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| Mark Twain on Henry James | 29 Nov 2009 15:15 GMT | 40 |
Of a much praised book by Henry James:
-- Once you put it down, you simply can't pick it up.
[quoted without source in _Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain_, Alex
Ayres-editor]
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| "Gotten" in NZEng? | 29 Nov 2009 14:29 GMT | 29 |
Just returned from visiting family in NZ, and saw a few AUE-worthy
things over there. One of them was the use of "gotten" in a weekend
profile piece, purportedly written by a New Zealand TV sports
announcer in her early 40 -- a (roller) speed-skater who, from the
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