That's pretty colourful jargon. "Hot-button" has been around for awhile. This term describes an issue that is known to make many people immediately give a strong negative reaction. If the GOP campaigns along the lines of "under the Democrats, what

Seems I read your second "somebody" posting first. Sorry about that. See there for more comments. In this case, only the second sentence with "anyone" in it would normally be used. It is considered the correct response. If you used the

Their meaning is different. The first one is a slightly unusual sentence, but it coherently suggests that you are not going out with a particular person you want to go out with. You would have to say it in a very confidential way to make it seem

Alwalidi, re" there are very big hands behind 9/11 ..bigger than Alqaida -- Hands which show your whole government helped them to do it ... " I find this the saddest part of the conspiracy-theory or holocaust-denial (explained in a previous

Bush's war on Iraq was colossally stupid from day one and led exactly where anyone would predict it would lead -- what a disaster. And then that his people got into torture, against all US Army training under previous governments -- I hope he is

English used to have many regional dialects, and the use of "he does" instead of "he do" was not universal. Also, to pronounce "is" as "ais" and so to get "he ain't" as a contraction of "he aisn't" was a matter of dialect. You also sometimes see

1. Expert at. You can be "expert in" a field or area of specialization, but when it comes to individual actions, the gestalt of containment "in" something is gone. Being an "expert on" something usually connects with topic names, "expert on plant

Actually, there is a pretty concise online English grammar help site at http://www.cs.wcu.edu/res/nasa_sp7084/sp7084cont.html It's still many pages, but I don't think you could get it much shorter than that.

No, it's fine. "Wearing a red tie/black hat" is not English, but "everyone I met was wearing a red tie and a black hat" would be quite OK, as would "everyone I met was wearing a red tie or a black hat." "Everyone I met" is a subject phrase, and

At first I thought this was going to be one of these impossible questions that was asking Forum participants to write a whole textbook just to answer one question. But then I read the question carefully, and it actually can be answered in less