http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=user%3aMike%3fin%3fJapan&o=DateDescendingSearch results for 'user:Mike?in?Japan'en-USXMOD (Build: 3616.28671)http://www.englishforums.com/English/OppositeOfPostpone/7/czjxm/Post.htm#993687Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:37:24 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:993687mike in japanHi, I know prepone has been suggested in some places. However it seems it lacks acceptance. More commonly the phrase "to bring sth forward" is used. HTH Pelle. I agree. Expressions come and go, and it is rarely good practice to adopt and use what is "in fashion". "bring forward" is the most widely acceptable, historically used and universal expression.http://www.englishforums.com/English/Paganini/wwnrj/post.htm#887943Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:33:20 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:887943mike in japanOops http://bikeforums.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=music&action=display&thread=24 Cheerssesssesss Seems to me that Eric Clapton (whos one of Fred's students) got kinda lost on some acid trip between lectures and got kinda caught in time and space.http://www.englishforums.com/English/Paganini/wwnrj/post.htm#887941Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:26:58 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:887941mike in japanAwesome AND here is some Freddie King! Never heard of him? He taught Eric Clapton more than what he knows! http://bikeforums.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=music&action=display&thread=27http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhatIsCricketAllAbout/wdrww/post.htm#878480Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:49:09 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:878480mike in japanConfused? Don't worry. Here is a more simple explanation; The tea towel explanation of cricket! The tea towel explanation of the game of cricket is a comic explanation of the game that has been current in the UK since the 1980s. It was made popular when the text was printed on a best-selling tea towel. The text runs as follows: Cricket: As explained to a foreigner... You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When...http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhatIsCricketAllAbout/wdrww/post.htm#878479Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:36:27 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:878479mike in japanMr P's video is a beauty, but perhaps some of the fundamentals of the game need a bit of explanation. A Brief and Simplified (by which we mean incomplete) Explanation of CRICKET (using baseball comparisons wherever possible) The Ground The cricket ground is an oval grass field (as opposed to a baseball "diamond") with a thin rectangular area in the middle called the "pitch". The entire ground is symmetrical about the pitch. If you were to stand on your head and look at the picture below you'd see what we mean. We urge you to verify this for yourself as soon as possible. The cricket ground with the pitch in the center The Sides and their Innings In a...http://www.englishforums.com/English/MeantimeMeanwhile/2/cbvz/Post.htm#744956Sun, 24 May 2009 04:04:52 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:744956mike in japanYou are welcome. I do have to confess that I got a little confused reading my old answer. Maybe my brain is shrinking.http://www.englishforums.com/English/DifferenceBetweenSentences/wkkkx/post.htm#720390Thu, 07 May 2009 16:36:20 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:720390mike in japanThere's never a prescriptivist around when one would need it. :-) "would" is, perhaps, one of the trickiest words in English. Anyway, with a bit of luck someone else can give you an authoritative answer soon. Cheers :-)http://www.englishforums.com/English/DifferenceBetweenSentences/wkkkx/post.htm#720379Thu, 07 May 2009 16:00:55 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:720379mike in japanLol... in my opinion, the former pertains more toward habitual behavior - which I think is probably what the writer had in mind. Unfortunately my dreaded reference books are in another location right now. Perhaps someone better versed in grammar rules would like to step up to the question. :-)http://www.englishforums.com/English/DoTheseThreeSentencesCarrySame-Meaning/wkkkq/post.htm#720376Thu, 07 May 2009 15:49:24 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:720376mike in japanIt would be possible to go into more detail, but I think you get the drift. :-)http://www.englishforums.com/English/DoTheseThreeSentencesCarrySame-Meaning/wkkkq/post.htm#720375Thu, 07 May 2009 15:48:03 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:720375mike in japanIn (a) greatly applies to time. In the other two it applies to efficiency.http://www.englishforums.com/English/PrepositionTo/wkkgl/post.htm#720345Thu, 07 May 2009 15:13:36 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:720345mike in japanYes. I dare say it is a typographic error. A "typo". Cheers :-)http://www.englishforums.com/English/PrepositionTo/wkkgl/post.htm#720303Thu, 07 May 2009 14:44:44 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:720303mike in japanYes. You can and you should. UNLESS your "to" is a mispelling of "too" - in which case "too" would be, arguably, fine.http://www.englishforums.com/English/ShortTermGoalAlsoReachOtherGoals/wkkzm/post.htm#720286Thu, 07 May 2009 14:23:58 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:720286mike in japanAll looks fine, to me. Of course using "and" instead of "that" or "which" would make "also" redundant.http://www.englishforums.com/English/Paganini/wwnrj/post.htm#711333Sat, 02 May 2009 13:45:51 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:711333mike in japanhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/Paganini/wwnrj/post.htmSat, 02 May 2009 12:26:05 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:711238mike in japanOpen almost any textbook of music and it will tell you that Paganini was thought to have been an agent of the devil. Well, I am starting to think that the true agents of the devil are the writers of such stupid textbooks! To slur someone, no matter how subtly or indirectly, is still slurring - in my view. Paganini changed modern music dramatically! He drew us out of the dim durges and drew us towards cheerfullness, fun, and vigour - at a time when almost everyone else was peddling gloom. I have no doubt that many a REAL student of music will differ from my opinion, but I felt compelled to serve this opinion up before the urge waned. Comments and alerts to other "uplifting" composers are really welcome. Cheers, Mike ...http://www.englishforums.com/English/IsThisCorrect/wzvrg/post.htm#693896Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:35:26 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:693896mike in japanI went on my first solo long distance trip in May 2008. I drove from Denver, CO (all the way) to the border of Kansas and I found out that there was was absolutely nothing there.http://www.englishforums.com/English/BestMusicEver/2/wcjph/Post.htm#686572Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:41:59 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:686572mike in japanHi Sinz I don't think we have met. Lol... I'm Mike. It's nice to meet you. Thanks for your link. It's a powerful piece of music! Thanks to all who are partaking of this thread! Good music beats stupid movies any day!http://www.englishforums.com/English/BestMusicEver/2/wcjph/Post.htm#686558Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:55:07 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:686558mike in japanThanks, Orpheus. Thanks for your comments, your historical info, your advice as to the accurate naming of the piece, and your general wisdom. :-) Thanks also for letting us know a couple of your favourites. I'm off to listen to them now. Pieces such as these paint more vivid and intreaguing pictures than any movie could ever hope to! Best wishes, Mikehttp://www.englishforums.com/English/HelloEveryoneAmericanLooking-InterestingConversation/3/hlgzh/Post.htm#684018Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:33:18 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:684018mike in japanHi Mina. I don't know whether you are Japanese or not, nor do I know how tall you are, but I have added you to the above list anyway. :-) Cheers :-)http://www.englishforums.com/English/HelloEveryoneAmericanLooking-InterestingConversation/3/hlgzh/Post.htm#682576Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:28:17 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:682576mike in japanUmm... Dave; just exactly where in Japan did you live, and in what place did you meet these "ugly" women? I'm guessing you lived in Ugly City, and encountered these women in the waiting room of a plastic surgeon, or in the engine room of a fishing trawler working the Antarctic. I've been living here for nine years, and my observation is that there are lovely and slightly less lovely women in every age bracket. Almost all are slim, they take care of their health, dress very well, are polite and considerate, and I have yet to meet an obnoxious or smelly one. Perhaps it is just by comparison with the young stunners (some of the VERY best the world has to offer) that the older ones seem less attractive. If I had a...http://www.englishforums.com/English/BestMusicEver/wcjph/post.htmFri, 27 Feb 2009 14:15:14 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:680857mike in japanWhat do you think is the best piece of music EVER? I think it has got to be the second movement of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73' (thanks for helping with the correct title, Orpheus) I know my naming of the piece is not entirely accurate. Would someone more knowledgeable than me please advise the exact name of this piece, please? Please enjoy what is believed to be Beethoven's last piano work before he died. It is sublime!http://www.englishforums.com/English/IJustHadToPostThis/hpbkw/post.htm#659585Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:52:55 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:659585mike in japanNa, seriously - the kid is great! I'm also a drummer. Practiced between two and four hours a day from the age of ten til seventeen, but got nowhere near this kid's level!!! Awesome! Right now I'm trying to imress the importance of timing on my six year-old daughter who is very fond of playing the piano. This video has helped motivate imeasurably.http://www.englishforums.com/English/IntensiveCourses/hkjzb/post.htm#638558Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:59:07 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:638558mike in japanThat is very good advice Reefannie! It's a minefield out there, especially for newcomers.http://www.englishforums.com/English/BanHim/hkmzw/post.htm#637523Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:13:29 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:637523mike in japanThe only difference to me is that forbid to --- sounds a little old fashioned. The most common these days would probably be; They have forbidden him from hanging around with bad-mannered boys like Mike and Woody. We don't seem to hear forbade much these days.http://www.englishforums.com/English/BanHim/hkmzw/post.htm#637437Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:07:53 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:637437mike in japanAlmost :-) They forb ade him from hanging around with bad-mannered boys like Mike and Woody. You could also use "bar" (barred)http://www.englishforums.com/English/Affect/hkmhc/post.htm#637425Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:57:23 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:637425mike in japanAlmost. You could say; Those rebellious boys made a lot of noise and trouble that affected/influenced the studying of other students in the class. "Impede(d)" might also be appropriate.http://www.englishforums.com/English/EslTeachersNeededOnlinePart/2/zwmqn/Post.htm#637217Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:08:49 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:637217mike in japanhttp://www.tutorabc.com/index.asp?language=zh-tw You'll need to have East Asian fonts installed on your system to be able to read it.http://www.englishforums.com/English/1Addresses/hkhpm/post.htmFri, 09 Jan 2009 13:58:49 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:636067mike in japanAny message posting linking to a website which does not contain a street address for a business promoted by the posting will be subject to deletion at the discretion of EnglishForums staff members. Further, such postings may incur the indefinite suspension of the poster's account.http://www.englishforums.com/English/Palestine/2/gpgxc/Post.htm#629215Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:51:06 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:629215mike in japanThis was posted in another thread. It contains a LOT of information (and opinion). http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11313http://www.englishforums.com/English/DemocracyLuxuryAgree/hrgrw/post.htm#629194Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:59:03 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:629194mike in japanHey, slow down. The world is not wicked, but many of the rulers are! The vast majority of people are very good indeed! lol... hey what is a "ruler" anyway? My first taste of one was when a "teacher" used it to whack me on the backside! Happy New Year!http://www.englishforums.com/English/ShouldTaiwanBePartOfChina/27/hdxw/Post.htm#621304Thu, 25 Dec 2008 13:53:13 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:621304mike in japanThanks, Aristocles, for the mainland point of view. Can you tell us the Taiwanese point of view? (Perhaps including the Japanese involvement)?http://www.englishforums.com/English/HoldingUmbrellaHoldingUmbrella/hgjhl/post.htm#616931Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:01:38 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:616931mike in japan(as requested) The difference between the two is simply that the latter tells us that the umbrella is in an upright position. "Holding the umbrella up" as opposed to holding the umbrella in some oher position (down, sideways... whatever) "Damn it Wendy! Hold the umbrella up! I'm getting wet!. Stop dragging it on the footpath! Stop holding it down near the gutter. That might keep the ants dry, but I'm getting soaked!"http://www.englishforums.com/English/HaveToVersusHaveObjectToV/5/hrqbj/Post.htm#598740Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:05:30 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:598740mike in japanI must/have to say; I'm impressed. I don't understand half the stuff you guys are debating, but the half I do is very impressive!http://www.englishforums.com/English/ShouldTaiwanBePartOfChina/26/hdxw/Post.htm#590263Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:37:13 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:590263mike in japan... To tell the truth, I kind of like him. Obama? Give it a little time. He isn't even in office yet. So far we have only seen the friendly advertising! (I'm getting ready for the Fourth Reich)http://www.englishforums.com/English/IntoVsInTo/3/bqdbp/Post.htm#590225Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:54:47 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:590225mike in japanAnd how come if we have "into" we don't have "outof"? Have you ever had that feeling that you were a little bit crazy? Or perhaps a LOT CRAZY? Maybe it wasn't just a feeling. Maybe you really are crazy, but maybe you are not. I don't know. But I DO know that English is amazingly CRAZY! It's a basket case! Out to lunch! A sambo short of a picnic! Loopy! Crackers! Whacko! Loonie Tunes! Calpiss! It was hiding behind the door when the brains were being handed out! I know I have not answered your question. NEVER try to understand insanity. It will drive you crazy! Just look at me and my friend English!http://www.englishforums.com/English/DinnerVsSupperVsLunch/3/bmjx/Post.htm#577504Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:13:38 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:577504mike in japanlol... I'm guessing that, like me, you don't get out much. Tonight I will rebell! I will have cornflakes for dinner - late! Tomorrow I will have pizza for breakfast!http://www.englishforums.com/English/LetItRockWhosTheGreatest/2/dwvr/Post.htm#577500Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:05:14 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:577500mike in japanAs a guitarist Angus Young is pretty good too (though possibly misguided in a Satanic kinda way). The "Who's" part of the question kinda makes me think of individuals as opposed to groups. Ry Cooder! Yay! Dave Gilmour! (Very weird, but WAY groovy) Me! (Shitful, but I like it)http://www.englishforums.com/English/GuessTheSong/21/bgnqg/Post.htm#573406Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:57:49 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:573406mike in japanYay! And just for funhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/GuessTheSong/21/bgnqg/Post.htm#573067Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:39:06 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:573067mike in japanPut a name to this one;http://www.englishforums.com/English/SheDont/6/pnrg/Post.htm#572735Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:00:14 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:572735mike in japanI checked the "catenaccio" thingy on Wikipedia, but I am afraid I am none the wiser. Can you explain it? (Pretend I am a six-year-old). Thanks :-)http://www.englishforums.com/English/WarsAroundTheWorldWhy/gncgq/post.htm#569504Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:30:03 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:569504mike in japanWar is the most profitable of all enterprises. Bankers know this well. Bankers run the world. That is why we have wars. Simple.http://www.englishforums.com/English/IFluentEnglishSpeaker/17/vkmc/Post.htm#568587Sun, 21 Sep 2008 07:17:17 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:568587mike in japanGreat advice! Very, VERY good! I would just like to add that we should be careful WHAT we listen to, or watch. We shouldn't eat bad food, and neither should we watch or listen to bad media. There is too much propaganda out there. Be careful, please. :-)http://www.englishforums.com/English/SheDont/6/pnrg/Post.htm#568231Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:30:06 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:568231mike in japanThey all believe American workers exist? They all have faith in the ability of American workers? They believe (to the exclusion of other beliefs) in American workers? At this moment I believe in Early Times whiskey (despite it being eight-thirty in the evening here).http://www.englishforums.com/English/SouthOssetiaWhoseFault-Poll/3/gkpgk/Post.htm#567872Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:05:20 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:567872mike in japanI think it may have a lot to do with 1 Oil pipelines 2 The impending US elections 3 All sorts of other shit you will never see or read about on TV or in your newspaper.http://www.englishforums.com/English/SheDont/6/pnrg/Post.htm#567853Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:33:44 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:567853mike in japanI'm not half as confused by double negatives as the next man is, but probably moreso! "I didn't go nowhere" means (and should be literally read and indeed written as) 'I didn't go anywhere'. What DO our 'trusted' governments spend all our money on? It certainly isn't 'ejacashun'!http://www.englishforums.com/English/IsGeorgiaUsa/gncrb/post.htmSat, 13 Sep 2008 11:39:44 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:565574mike in japanIs Georgia (near Ruskyland) USA? Lots of US dollars have been spent (and people killed), but is it really a part of Uncle Sam Land?http://www.englishforums.com/English/FeltUnwell/gmllw/post.htm#563461Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:29:26 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:563461mike in japanI see no problem other than that "Yesterday night' should be 'last night'... and that John is a bit silly for not visiting a doctor!http://www.englishforums.com/English/OppositeOfPostpone/6/czjxm/Post.htm#563105Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:55:25 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:563105mike in japanPretty close, but expedite pertains more to speed than rescheduling. "Bring forward" is the only (albeit phrasal) antonym or opposite that I am aware of.http://www.englishforums.com/English/ComparedVersusComparedTo/3/xwkj/Post.htm#563102Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:35:18 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:563102mike in japanThanks Anon. The negligence of the conscious mind, especially when compared with its inverse, never fails to amaze me! How can such things be simply automatic to the background mind whilst being a puzzle to the immediate one? Tonight I am exploring whisky (for want of other more illicit stuffs) as a possible explanation.http://www.englishforums.com/English/TomCruiseEatsBabies/gmrvx/post.htm#560630Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:37:23 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:560630mike in japanThanks Doll. :-) Here is the text from your link (sorry about the lousy formatting - my computer is drunk again) Tom Cruise' Placenta Eating Tips Apr 18, 2006, 10:19 Fresh placenta tartare. HOLLYWOOD - In a recent interview with GQ magazine Tom Cruise said he plans to eat his baby's placenta. When he was cautioned that placentas weigh approximately one sixth as much as the babies to whom they are attached, Mr. Cruise became combative. "You don't know placentas," said Mr. Cruise. "I do. I've studied placentas. I know dozens of ways to prepare them. I know what wines go with them. What do you know?" According to Mr. Cruise, the recipes for serving placenta of which he has firsthand...