Why is that? It's an arbitrary rule of English sentence structure. "Arbitrary" is a strong word to use. Is there really any "arbitrary" rule of language? It's possible to say that this form became the norm because it

Walls That Block Communication How Culture Influences Who We Are Culture has been broadly defined as “a set of shared ideas, . . . the customs, beliefs, and knowledge that characterize a way of life.” We learn many cultural values through

The idiom is, 'nowhere ... did I say' Why is that? It's an arbitrary rule of English sentence structure. The rule is: If you put a negative adverb at the beginning of a sentence (that is, an adverb whose meaning looks sufficiently

When referring to in-house terminology in a neutral context, I think "jargon" is generally avoided by insiders. For instance, I ... "Yeah, I know it's an archaic pain in the *** but that's the way it is" message along

That's curious, my version is 3.0, Mmmh, I've been looking for that forever tho' in all the *wrong* places (e.g. on the IRC and using certain peer to peer software). which gave 390 as the count this morning - now I look again and it

Incidentally, of you look up 'Now', you will find the other definition of 'Noo' even more clearly, "Form 9 Sc. noo". So, from that you could possibly deduce that Scots confuse time and negative replies. In striking

On 20 Oct 2003, Harvey Van Sickle wrote I found his apparent misapprehension that "jargon" has a technical ... for a lack of precision in the use of words). Sorry: misedited that, and it garbled. I found his apparent misapprehension that

"> On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:59:29 +0100, Harvey Van Sickle I found his apparent misapprehension that "jargon" is always a negative term interesting. It is, though. Those outside don't understand the jargon; those inside are

On 20 Oct 2003, Harvey Van Sickle wrote -snip- Sorry: misedited that, and it garbled. Oh, good. See below. I found his apparent misapprehension that "jargon" is always a negative term interesting. It is, though. Those outside don't

On 20 Oct 2003, Ross Howard wrote -snip- I did, ... him that discipline-specific terms are a bad thing why? No, I don't agree with that. I thought you were saying that "jargon" as a word carries no negative payload. Ah: no, I