Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / October 2003

I have no idea what a beanie weenie is. That happens to be your comfort
food. It stands to reason that in various reigons, and or countries, that it
will very greatly. I can, however, assure you that in my area of the USA it
is primaraly used to refer to food which is high in fat ...

I tried solving some questions.
10) _____ this prints the document I'll make a coffee
      a) After   c) Over
      b) During   d) While

Hello, for some time now I've been trying to determine once and for good
whether noon as opposed to midnight can be referred to as 12 am or 12 pm.
According to me it's 12 pm but am I right?... - many of native English
speakers whom i'd asked had different opinions on that. Please ...

Dear Sir or Madam,
I am copywriting the mission statement of a company, and I'd like to know
the exact meaning of the term "cutting-edge" so that we won't be
misunderstood.

"the Florida Legislature passed a law tailored to her case that authorized Gov. Jeb Bush to issue a one-time stay, which he promptly did"
I have seen precedents placed away from their relative pronouns like above.
My question is how much the identification of precedent is dependent ...

RE: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=chickenology&hl=hu&lr=&ie=UTF-8&inlang=pl&selm
=71hhc4%24dbr%248%40pollux.matav.net&rnum=3
Greetings,
Believe it or not, it's been almost 5 years since we've started out
with http://www.chickenology.net.  Many people have contributed one

Probably a needle in a heystack, but it's worth a try.
I am looking for an old-English poem that describes , in a lucid way,
the problems that late 'middle-ages' Englanders had with understanding
each-other. This was because of the mix of anglo-saxon and french

Walking through the hallways of the (supposedly respected) high school that
my son will be attending in the fall, I was dismayed to see signs that used
the word "consequenced".  For example, one sign read "Students who fail to
display their ID will be consequenced".  I had never ...

Person A asks person B what he or she thinks about his/her
new car (or whatever) and person B responds with:
"It's very flashy" (1)
or

I do not understand when it is right to use the verb 'got' and the verb
'have'. I always make mistakes but do not understand. Is 'got' only for past
tense uses? To say," I got an A ' is proper but to say "I got my son with
me" is not. Why?

Maria is a little girl and she livs in a convent, with other girls. They go
to school there. There she has arguments the *morals instructor*.
-- What exactly is morals instructor (at the convent or convent school)?
Furball is a dog. He is hiding under a bed and he does not want to ...

Could anybody tell me if there is any difference between "need of" and "need
for" ?
In the example below, what would be the correct sentence - a or b ?
a - Market changes increase manufacturers need of external resources.

I'm trying to determine the exact meaning of part of the lyrics
to a song ("Who Painted The Moon Black" by Hayley Westenra).
As printed in the CD booklet:
Who painted the moon black?

Hi , I'm looking for a translation.
The word in german is "Dauerschuldverhältnis"
I found:
    continuing obligation

Hi folks, I'm doing a translation from English into German and
struggling to find the right German term for "a kind of organizational
habit of terror" as in the following sentence:
Terrorism was particularly effective in launching this insurgency, but it