... Those languages which have genders for nouns, as far ... une francaise, un anglais, une anglaise etc. Are there exceptions? I can offer one: the Gaelic word "cailín" (anglicised as "colleen") meaning "girl"

Hi Siva, If you want to expand your vocabulary, maybe reading extensively is still the best way, traditional yet still effective. Reading dictionaries, and reciting large number of words such as TOFEL or GRE also helps a lot, however, it's

I will take this story to mean that there is in your mind no longer any reason to discuss the ... shake our heads in disbelief but never make a judgment lest we end up like the rabbi in this story. I wouldn't go quite that far. First of all,

Ever seen those ads automatically connected to thread subjects by the ad robot when you're browsing NGs in Google? These machine associations are worth collecting. Today, with AUE, in addition to the usual "Increase your Vocabulary"

Yes, I intended the quotations to be example of pleonastic opaqueness. Pleonastic! Thank you. A fine addition to my vocabulary. Mickwick, the universally concerned intellectual optic of integrity

On 1 Oct 2003 07:03:21 GMT, CyberCypher I'm in the States. I've already graduated from college here. ... for all transcripts from all colleges that a student've attended? If you went to a community college after graduating from a

scrotums That's kinda croûte, Jitze. Are you making fun of my affliction? I have this handicap where some synapse in my brain seems to be permanently wired to come up with embarrasing malapropisms. These then get grooved permanently into

Skitt: You've studied it for five years, and your Spanish is still God-awful, as you say? This was three years ago. I stopped studying it three years ago. I'm sure I was better then than I ... have all the tenses right. I have a so-so

Skitt: You've studied it for five years, and your Spanish is still God-awful, as you say? This was three years ago. I stopped studying it three years ago. I'm sure I was better then than I am now. I've probably lost a bit, since I

Hi, here’s a little piece of a book called Crazy English: the Ultimate Joy Ride Through Our Language (Pocket Books, 1989). If you’re wondering about how English might change in the future, it’s interesting to read something about it’s