Now you are bringing rules into it! There is no mention of rules. People being admitted to Hong Kong University are not restricted to local students is simply a statement about who is admitted. If the statement All students admitted to Hong

I spelt "licence" wrong - I did that on purpose.

Winsonli wrote: I see your point, Forbes. Forbes wrote: Those permitted to fly our aeroplanes are restricted to those with a pilot's license We know it is no use asking to fly if we do

I think we need to forget about whether or not the sentence is good English. Winsonli was attending a lesson in Logic and Critical Thinking - that includes trying to work out what poorly phrased sentences mean. "Restrict" means to impose

I think the lecturer is right; "are restricted to" means "include only" and so "are not restricted to" must mean "do not include only". People being admitted to Hong Kong University are not restricted to local students . Is therefore the

The sentence is certainly very awkward. It reads like a schoolboy translation from a language like Latin. I suspect that I may have passed over it without paying much attention to it if I had come across it in continuous text. However, when you

Hoa Thai wrote: In my own language, Vietnamese, slang often (if not always) carry bad connotation. It is my experience that in SE Asia a high premium is placed on using correct* language. I suspect that this is because "correct speech" is

My mother, who went to a convent school in the 1920's, told me that during her time at school she learned the four gospels and the Acts of the Apostles, great chunks of Shakespeare and any number of poems.

On Google there is currently a link entitled " Why Oprah Won't Help Obama ". I took this to mean "Why Oprah is declining to help Obama", but when you read the article you realise what was meant was "Why Oprah's help won't do Obama any good".

The site is refusing to remember me - is there a bug?