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| Friends to the ground | 07 Jan 2010 20:06 GMT | 6 |
Bernardo: Well, good night. If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, The
rivals of my watch,
bid them make haste.
Francisco: I think I hear them.—Stand, ho! Who is there?
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| Problem with "issue" | 07 Jan 2010 19:46 GMT | 34 |
It seems that several years ago the word "problem" became politically
incorrect. Now everything is an "issue". For example, at one time an
alcoholic might have been described as having an "alcohol problem".
Now that person only has "alcohol issues".
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| Waugh: home | 07 Jan 2010 18:30 GMT | 8 |
Does this mean the scouts/servants at Oxford did _not_ live on the
premises? I remember from other novels that at least some of them
did.
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| Waugh: that does for me | 07 Jan 2010 17:45 GMT | 3 |
Does "does" in
"that does for me"
mean
"works?"
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| In which By Which | 07 Jan 2010 15:57 GMT | 1 |
I want to know more about the grammar of "In which" and "by
which", could you please
give me some link on it? By the way, what is the grammar jargon for
"in which" and "by which"?
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| Waugh: sip like a dowager | 07 Jan 2010 15:55 GMT | 3 |
"sip like a dowager"
is this, by any chance, an idiom?
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[Anthony Blanche, in Morocco, talks about Sebastian being drunk all
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| English words ending in ...hion | 07 Jan 2010 11:42 GMT | 22 |
I read in another group that there are only three English words which
end in ...hion. They are fashion, cushion and stanchion. Does anyone
in this group know of any others?
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| Waugh: Evidence | 07 Jan 2010 11:29 GMT | 23 |
In 1938 in the UK, did they still need proof of adultery with
witnesses/detectives or something simulated like that, "in flagrante?"
I remember that from other novels.
Or would their statements (Julia and Ryder's) have been enough?
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| Waugh: there's reason in | 07 Jan 2010 10:58 GMT | 3 |
Is this
"there's reason in"
without "it"
non-standard?
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| what do you make of this 'when'? | 07 Jan 2010 08:29 GMT | 28 |
1. One evening in Paris, during the autumn of eighteen forty-five, I went to visit a friend, Auguste Dupin.
We were smoking our pipes and talking when the door of his apartment opened.
Mister Germont, the head of the Paris police force, came into the room.--The Purloined Letter
by ...
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| THIS IS THE ROSETTA STONE OF ALL HUMAN UNDERSTANDING. | 07 Jan 2010 05:50 GMT | 1 |
I think it's worth knowing, don't you?
http://surftofind.com
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| One of the largest... | 07 Jan 2010 02:05 GMT | 7 |
I think it's okay to say, "One of the largest cakes..."
But a friend said that it was wrong to say that because there can be
only one "largest cake" and that it doesn't make sense to assume that
there could be a group of (more than one) largest cakes.
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| When Someone's Dog Has Died | 07 Jan 2010 00:58 GMT | 22 |
(carried over from another thread)
"Percival P. Cassidy" <Nobody@NotMyISP.net> wrote:
>he said (or at least I thought he said), "I just lost my daughter." I
>think I said, "Oh, I am very sorry to hear that." It was not until a few |
| bizarre vs erotica | 06 Jan 2010 22:57 GMT | 19 |
I wonder if "bizarre" could be referred to "erotic dance"? actually I
am not sure, I just heard (maybe misheard) conversations in a movie
that one asks "what do you do?", the other said "I am a dancer". Then,
"Ballet?", "No, bizarre".
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| Ring Out, O Nine! | 06 Jan 2010 20:46 GMT | 29 |
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow;
Ring out the noughties, let them go,
Most decadent of decades -- shoo!
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