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An old discussion here implied that formerly, the wife of the professional title was addressed as frau-professional-title. That's quite true, especially in southern Germany and throughout Austria. That reminds me of a professor of mine many

My eyes have been opened wider. None of the posters seem to have commented on Juuitchan's possibly too-direct approach. One gathers that he is young and will better recover from rebuffs than some of us old fogies. Well, I think the statistical

Hopefully, you are not under the impression that you will ... their country. We can be almost puppy-doggish in this respect. No, the impression I get is that visitors to the US encounter far more courtesy and politeness than people coming to the

david56 wrote on 02 Oct 2004: CyberCypher typed thus: We've discussed this before, but this is the first time I've seen somebody suggest that the term is offensive in itself. Well, I would think that it should be obvious that it might be

Are you thinking of Churchill's marginal comment, "This is the sort of English up with which I will not put"? Or the child wondering "What did you lock that book that we were being read to out of up for?" The two I'd

Well, OED have 'Euboa (now Evvoia)' In that case they're not just wrong, but perhaps even silly. The sample is too small for reasoned judgement, but ... that a friend with no advanced classical background was shocked to be often

Here you have more context: In addition, the split between the ego and the body, and between the ego and the world, could never have become as severe for women due to the fact that women are more closely connected to nature – in