I am not sure exactly who to ask this question of, but here goes. In a high school creative writing class, we are writing poems. A friend wants to use the slang word for Nike shoes, phoenetically spelled, "nykes." However, we are unsure

Richard Sabey wrote on 04 Jun 2004: Richard Sabey wrote on 04 Jun 2004: Because that is the current cliché about the direction of the level of English. Aha. Here, the point of interest is the writer's capacity to express his meaning. Yes, I

Dylan Nicholson wrote on 02 Jun 2004: The following speech is from a book titled "When the ... the number of Japanese decrease in spite of their determination? Not really, just means that the number of Japanese soldiers is in steady decrease,

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If this is not different from teaching ESL/EFL to speakers of standard (or non-standard) dialects of languages other than English, ... is that AAVE speakers should be linguistically segregated in English classes and taught by bidialectals. Am I

I would first repeal the repeal of MC's law, and then I'd ask you why you're asking such a ridiculous question. Just make sure you do it in that order! And now... There must be some deficiencies in English that you ... just curious to

A little while ago I was asked to help out with a creative writing course in Hampshire. "How many in ... that case," I replied, "Include me out; I'd hate trying to make myself heard above all that hammering and banging."

X-No-Archive: yes I have a personal aversion, shared by none I fear, to the use of "industry" applied to the travel industry, insurance industry etc. Industry is big, black buildings full of noisy machines. A little while ago I was asked