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35歳のハーバードMBA卒業生のような英語を話すかだれがTVの広告の6ヶ月の赤ん坊か。
あなたの普通腐ったティーネージャーの隣りとして英語を(または)また話すことができる他の動物および不完全にとして犬か。
(またはトカゲか。踊ることができる)
私はむしろ人間を」より後をつける」話す英語、か消費者製品についてpeorating幼児よりもむしろのように」幼児」 mewling、puking育てられた大人の」 「吠えることを見る。 少なくともそれはより正確に人間の条件を描写する。
0コメントする わかりました、私は誤まって綴られた単語の使用に慣れた 判断 鉄のシェフ. 但し、今それはまた使用されている ESPNのスポーツ・センター。
私は小さい辞書の見るために研究をかどうかした 判断、誤ったつづりは、容認性を得た。 答えはNOはいあり。 1冊の辞書は代わりとして「e」のスペリングをリストするが、一方では使用を説明することを続く 判断 文の例のを使用して引用によって 判断、 正しいスペリング。 それはまた定義した 判断 厳密に、言それはだった「司法意見の理由を示す法律書類」。
要点判断 フランスの単語から得る唯一のスペリングはある jugement (「eを使用する」、不思議そうに)。
誰も文法専門家であることの私達の憲法の著者を訴えることができない。 第2修正、きのうの最高裁判所の判決の主題を取りなさい。 それは読む:
腕を保ち、耐える「well-regulated在郷軍、自由国、人々の権利の保証に必要で侵されない」。は
今度は、18世紀に、人々が頻繁に重点のための名詞を大文字で書いた事実を無視して、文にまだ構造問題がある。 それは読むべきである「必要であるwell-regulated在郷軍….」 ある 動名詞はあり、所有にこうして先行されなければならない。 また、後コンマ 腕 主題を動詞から分け、実質のno-noがある。
修正の意味についての何か。
In irony of ironies, considering how poor I am, I woke up this morning and opened the shutters in my living room to see the sun rising from the east and said outloud (yes, I do talk to myself), "The world is my oyster." Of course, it’s not, and actually I said, "The woild is my oyster," mimicking a Mafioso or someone from stereotypical New Jersey/New York.
That got me to look up the origins of the saying, and it is indeed something from The Bard in The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Said Pistol to Falstaff therein:
Why, then the world’s mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open.
Maybe I’ll just fall on my sword. LOL
A site called the Drudge Retort, a liberal answer to the Drudge Report, was ordered by the Associated Press (AP) to cease and desist using snippets of AP articles in its own articles this past week.
Drudge II complied, but objected that copyright law permits the "fair use" of copyrighted material, in limited portions, for scholarly and academic purposes.
I doubt I’d consider either Drudge I or Drudge II scholarly or academic, but I defend their right to quote from published sources and comment on them. This is the meaning, to me, of a free press. I do it all the time here and on my other blogs.
Anyway, a spat ensued, and eventually AP backed away from its legal threat and said the organization "needed to rethink" matters.
What really galled AP, from what I can determine from reading between the lines, is that Drudge and other sites were using the quotations as tie-ins to advertising.
If that’s the case, then AP has a good argument.
Paraskavedekatriaphobia is a word formed from three Greek words: paraskevi (Friday,) dekatreis (thirteen) and phobia (fear or phobia), meaning "fear of Friday the 13th." Triskaidekaphobia means just "fear of the number 13."
There you go. Learn something everyday. Happy Friday the 13th!
I came across this site that lists the highest–and lowest–gasoline pump prices in each state and counties, parishes, areas, etc., within that state.
I checked it against my local knowledge, and while it was good, it didn’t list the stations that I know to consistently have the lowest prices. Still, it beats not knowing where to save money.
It’s called Gas Buddy.
PS Unless I’m mistaken, look for gas prices to reach $5 a gallon by the Fourth of July, or shortly thereafter. They’ll come down in September or October for the presidential election and then continue their upward march after the new president is elected.
Much was made on the video waves about his earlier confusion of the word numnah with numbnut, but 13-year-old Sameer Mishra finally won the 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee with the word guerdon. Watch below:
The politics is bad too, but I’ll leave that aside.
Congress recently passed a piece of legislation known affectionately as NOPEC, which may as well stand for No One Possibly Expects Clarity, but instead is an acronym for The No Oil-Producing and -Exporting Cartels Act." Okay, I added the hypens because no one in Washington, D.C., could possibly understand compound adjectives, let alone writing basic, clear English.
What this act does is allow Congress and its designated henchmen to sue OPEC countries if they feel the latter has been withholding production of oil and thus artificially raising prices through manipulation of supply and demand. Good luck with these lawsuits, but let’s take a look at the enabling language of NOPEC:
"It shall be illegal and a violation of this Act," declared the House of Representatives, "to limit the production or distribution of oil, natural gas, or any other petroleum product … or to otherwise take any action in restraint of trade for oil, natural gas or any petroleum product when such action, combination, or collective action has a direct, substantial, and reasonably foreseeable effect on the market, supply, price or distribution of oil, natural gas or other petroleum product in the United States."
As I said, good luck with NOPEC. And good luck with writing clear English. You’ll need it in both cases.
The sports journalists of the world made hay this past week with allegations that USC college basketball phenom O.J. Mayo had been on the take the whole time since high school.
A few days after the story broke, Mayo met with Los Angeles Times reporter Ben Bolch to deny the allegations, saying:
"So for them to say I received $30,000 or whatever the case is, I definitely don’t think that’s enough to sell out myself and my family."
That was in the next-to-last paragraph. Here’s what the last paragraph observed:
"Following the interview, Mayo slipped off into a new red Porsche Cayenne GTS with two friends and drove off."
Nice juxtaposition. Or was it irony?
