Charles Riggs Now that the recently-senile and always-bungling old pope is at last gone, perhaps the Catholic Church can wake up to some of the crises in the world instead of worrying about who's using contraceptives and whatever other ancient concerns it, ... Apr 04 2005 07:50:35 | |
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Per_R=F8nne?= Recently, we've had a discussion on the "rank" of various countries, in particular how rich they were per capita. GNP per capita, and in the most recent survey I've found it seems as if the US and Denmark has swapped place. 2003, Denmark was ... May 31 2005 14:12:05 | |
retrosorter English spelling is much less phonetic than other European languages such as Italian, German and Spanish. Why is this the case? Dec 13 2004 01:06:43 | |
CyberCypher Same-Sex Marriage Ruling One Year Later By JENNIFER PETER Associated Press Writer 'said Kris Mineau, leader of the conservative Massachusetts Family Institute. "I've always argued that from May 17 onward, my heterosexual marriage was no longer ... Nov 21 2004 11:47:31 | |
The aue webmaster There's a new page on the alt-usage-english site, showing the pronunciation of some regular contributors' names. http://alt-usage-english.org/audio gallery/ The page was created after a suggestion by Nobuko Iwasaki and subsequent discussion in this newsgroup. I've included on the ... Oct 09 2003 16:24:16 | |
R H Draney "Times the number by a thousand." Is this construction: (1) Rural/regional? (2) Childish/illiterate? (3) Jargonistic? (4) Pondially differentiated? It came up in a document here at work yesterday and I want to know if I'm out of line to demand it be ... Aug 11 2004 18:31:31 | |
Mark Barratt From the BBC's web site today 'Liberal black Congressman Charles Rangel said of him: "Colin Powell is a military guy, and he doesn't care who he works for, he just salutes." ' Odd that it omits to tell us Rangel's religion or leg measurement, don't ... Nov 15 2004 20:19:35 | |
chrissy I wonder if other languages than English have the word "teenager" and the associated concepts. In English (I'm presuming now) it's formed from the suffix "teen" on the words for the numbers 13-19 inclusive, but in other languages (eg French, ... Dec 24 2004 22:01:18 | |
CyberCypher Here's a fun test. The BBC has a "Spot the fake smile" test. 20 pictures of people smiling. How many can you spot? My score: 18/20 http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles / Franke: EFL teacher & medical editor. For email, replace numbers with English alphabet. Jun 06 2004 04:07:28 | |
retrosorter I've noticed that there are considerable differences in capitalization of proprietary words in various dictionaries and am wondering if this depends mostly on diifferent trademark situations that might exist in different countries: Take the ... Mar 22 2005 23:22:26 | |
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