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I think that there is a major flaw in the manner of government you've described, at least in terms of presenting it as an alternative to Western-style democracy and the problem of ill-informed citizens. The flaw lies in this statement: I think election should go like this; a group of wise,...

Hi, here is the letter with corrections. I usually show changes in bold, but the editor does not seem to be working with this post. I hope this is OK for you. If there is anything you are not sure about, let me know. - Nick Hi Robert, It’s been a while since we wrote, so I thought I'd update...

Could you check this, please? Hi Robert, it’s been a while since we wrote, so I thought to write to you to up to date about my news. I’m out of work at moment, I left my job some months ago to follow two programming courses of Computer Science. A couple of weeks ago I did two exams with...

1) How long is a piece of string? Exactly 27.82cm. Anything other this is either shorter or longer than it should be. 2) Who Said an Orange should be called an Orange , and not a Window? First, windows weren't invented back then. Second, it was almost called a Green because long ago, at the...

FROM: "Re: The reason is because ~" Posted 06-10-2005 06:23 AM =============== Authority: The New Fowler's Modern English Usage edited by R.W. Burchfield. Clarendon Press: Oxford, England. 1996. Used with the permission of Oxford University Press. (under "because")...

Hello Guest The duke is the narrator. An 'unreliable narrator' is a narrator whose words we can't trust, for one reason or another — e.g. we may think he isn't telling us the truth about a situation. Or we may think he's unconsciously distorting the facts. Every time you hear a speech by the...

Friday. That's quite soon, Parsa. We'll see what we can do. Quick intro. This = a dramatic monologue. You are being spoken to by the Duke. Techie stuff: it's written in heroic couplets with almost continuous enjambement. (What does this mean, in terms of the style of the poem? What effect...

Oh no, I meant no irony, really! Actually, I trust Webster's dictionaries and I have an old edition of their "Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary" which I use very often. What I meant was that not every colloquial, or very infirmal, expression will always be found in a dictionary. Probably not...

Hi darlin’, Here are some popular categories of slang words in the US and probably every country Sex Insults intoxication Ironic issues Slang changes quickly so it’s hard to name the top 10 slang words in America. But words like these have been around for a while and are perennial...