If you've seen my other message in this forum, you'll know that I'm not here to argue against you! (Where our all the controversial people these days?) But I'm interested in that point about a mistranslation involving "someone else's bed" --

Hmm... he couldn't imagine where they were taking him to -- he was being kidnapped and was already in the trunk of a car being taken someplace, but where? He couldn't imagine where they would take him to -- he had been kidnapped but was being

To see is so simple that any explanation is more complicated than the word itself, e.g., to have information communicated to your brain via your eyes. To watch means to deliberately focus your visual attention on something. If you see the

I love your emoticon! What is it? (not exactly an English question, but maybe we can let the little yellow guys/girls in as a kind of punctuation.)

I reckon that it's a somewhat heavy-handed attempt to deal with a particular vicious circle, whch is that many people set their sights, in terms of career and educational aspirations, according to what they can identify with. If a group has been

It's pure poetry, and moreover pure pop poetry, mostly because it has 101 possible meanings. The danger could be to him or her, to start off with. The love could be an emotion or an action. That she often makes out with him while they're

Maj, I think you are using or hearing "issues" in a jargon sense that came out of the post-1970's self-help movement. When it's used in this way, it means "issues to discuss," or more exactly "things we need to talk about because your approach

Interesting (and witty), but I can't quite work out what the passive voice solution to this particular toy problem would be. You may be right about the legalese roots of "more compared to," but it now seems to have become part of international

Just in case Allah sounds a bit exotic to English speaking people, it's worth pointing out that in Persian, Allah is translated as Khoda. That's the same word as the English "God." Persian is an Indo-European language just as English is. In fact,

I've heard that the pictographic script tends to help people manipulate symbols in mental space and thus makes them smarter in math (because in many math operations symbols are similarly manipulated). I don't know if it's true, though. The one