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Re: Nonview

2009-11-08T12:14:55Z

Yes.
The review might be using a term taken from the technical description of
the amplifier. The description might having translated from, for
instance, a Chinese original by a non-native English speaker.

Re: Ishiguro: to heave over

2009-11-08T11:58:52Z

On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 03:09:01 -0800 (PST), Marius Hancu
The desks were "toppled". They were not lifted completely off the
ground. However, to topple an object it is necessary for one side to be
lifted clear of the ground and raised so that the object pivots round
the part still touching the ground. So "heaving over" an object of the

Re: Ishiguro: to sort things

2009-11-08T11:58:19Z

OK.

Re: correcting my son's grammar?

2009-11-08T11:43:11Z

On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:56:19 +0100, James Hogg <Jas.H...@gOUTmail.com>
wrote:
The etymology in the OED :
< Chinese Pidgin English "pidgin" business < English BUSINESS n.
Numerous 19th-cent. sources give this etymology; compare
1845 J. R. PETERS Misc. Remarks upon Chinese vii. 73 Pidgeon, is

Re: Ishiguro: to sort things

2009-11-08T11:39:00Z

Marius Hancu wrote, in
<721e2cfa-35c4-4a26-9f41-74a73 fd8c...@15g2000yqy.googlegroup s.com>
on Sun, 8 Nov 2009 03:32:10 -0800 (PST):
It seems to have become so.

Ishiguro: to sort things

2009-11-08T11:32:10Z

Hello:
Not using "out" with "to sort things (out)" here is a bit surprising
to me, and the author does it repeatedly. Accepted BrE idiom?
----
[Young girls, friends and rivals at the same time]
Little things like these might well have pleased Ruth, but they were
still far removed from what had actually happened between us under the

Re: the verb to describe the sound of frog

2009-11-08T11:30:48Z

Clearly we still have a lot to learn about the migratory habits of frogs.

Re: Ishiguro: to heave over

2009-11-08T11:09:01Z

No _lifting_ (from the ground) involved, just knocking them to a side?

Re: Ishiguro: the place to hide out with our best friends

2009-11-08T11:02:51Z

If you'd asked, I've said "hide out" felt slightly AmE. But I think it
conflates "hang out" and "hide" - so you're spending time with them, and
being hidden at the same time.

Ishiguro: the place to hide out with our best friends

2009-11-08T10:59:46Z

Hello:
BrE:
Do you feel
"the place to hide out with our best friends"
any different from
"the place to hide with our best friends?"
At Google Books,
"a place to hide with"
dominates
"a place to hide out with"
by far.
---
[...] the pavilion had become the place to hide out with our best
friends when you wanted to get away from the rest at Hailsham.

Re: Ishiguro: how desperately he didn't want reminded

2009-11-08T10:48:00Z

Marius Hancu wrote, in
<632aed6d-20c6-42ef-8655-0f1ef 2c11...@o10g2000yqa.googlegrou ps.com>
on Sun, 8 Nov 2009 02:45:45 -0800 (PST):
Not at all, I think it's awful! If it were 'reminding' it would be
passable.

Re: the verb to describe the sound of frog

2009-11-08T10:52:49Z

I think South African frogs speak with a Russian accent rather than a Greek or
American one.

Ishiguro: how desperately he didn't want reminded

2009-11-08T10:45:45Z

Hello:
This
"how desperately he didn't want reminded"
seems to be an ellipsis from
"how desperately he didn't want _to be_ reminded?"
Do you feel, in BrE, comfortable about it?
---
[Hailsham is seen by some patients here as an idyllic place.]
... I asked where _he'd_ grown up, he mentioned some place in Dorset

Re: Nouns and adjectives in chess

2009-11-08T10:01:53Z

It's a pity those scarlet-tusked elephants died out.

Re: I wonder: Question or a statement?

2009-11-08T10:00:20Z

That's probably quite true?