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Description: English grammar, word usages, and related topics.
 

Miss me, yet? 
  No shoes being hurled?
By Irwell  - 03:24 - 1 new of 1 message    

Classic oxymoron 
  " Anti-whaling activists said Tuesday they had exchanged *water cannon fire* with Japanese fishermen after ambushing them in Antarctic waters" from a news report on Yahoo news
By Ray O'Hara  - 9 Feb - 13 new of 13 messages    

Botulism 
  Headline of the year so far? 'Scant cant can't hide Bernard-Henri Levy's Kant embarrassment ' <[link] bernard-henri-levys-kant-embar rassment/story-e6frg6so-122582 8475924>
By Vinny Burgoo  - 9 Feb - 19 new of 19 messages    

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By Joseph Leong  - 9 Feb - 1 new of 1 message    

Intro G: Where is the FAQ? 
  Last Revised 2008-08-10 (10 Aug 2008) A copy of this is posted at: The alt.usage.english Website [link]... more »
By Donna Richoux  - 9 Feb - 1 new of 1 message    

someone's word against another person's 
  someone's word against another person's It's your word against a murdered policewoman's that it was she who harrassed you and not the other way around. (The Last Precinct ) context: No particular need to put, it's as you read. question: From context, it's clear that your word reprsents the content in the "that clause".... more »
By Masa  - 9 Feb - 19 new of 19 messages    

The word for one-handed as opposed to ambidextrous 
  Dear Everyone: We have the words "left-handed", "right-handed" and "ambidextrous". Is there a word for "one-handed" that has the same word-formation as "ambidextrous"? Is "monodextrous" the word? Thank you for reading and replying! --Roland
By qquito  - 8 Feb - 18 new of 18 messages    

Maps in the London Underground network style 
  In past threads we have discussed the topological, non-geographical, maps of the routes of the London Underground rail lines.[1] Last night there was a brief glimpse of a map in that style during a TV documentary on Imperial Airways. Here are two screen grabs of part of the map: [link]... more »
By Peter Duncanson (BrE)  - 8 Feb - 30 new of 30 messages    

The most preposterous proposal ... 
  [link] Perhaps you have heard of it. A Spanish guy (who apparently gets some sort of government funding) advocates what he calls Modern Indo- European as an international language. Form seeing his conversations it doesn't seem he is tolerant for criticism of his proposal. It is a quite laughable idea, and hard to know where to start in... more »
By Andrew Usher  - 8 Feb - 101 new of 101 messages    

cartoon's English (2) 
  Recently I stick to cartoons' English. Yea, I'm aware that it's the last thing learners challenge. [link] It's quite hard to grasp the whole thing. It's all I could guess that it's talking about hat or cap. And another point seems winter. Characters seem ready for coming hard winter.... more »
By Masa  - 8 Feb - 28 new of 28 messages    

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