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六月老婴孩在电视ads谁讲英语象35年老哈佛工商管理硕士毕业生？
能讲英语的狗和其他动物(或作为不足)作为您典型腐坏的少年隔壁？
(或蜥蜴可能跳舞？)
我宁可会看见人’咆哮比尾随’讲的英语或者’ “mewling和puking”象婴儿而不是婴儿的’增长的成人peorating关于消费品。 至少它更加准确地将描述人文环境。
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0评论 Seriouse评断Lacke
好我习惯于对被拼错的词的用途 评断 在 铁厨师. 然而，也现在使用它 ESPN体育中心。
我是否做小的字典研究看 评断拼错，获取了可接受性。 答复是和没有。 另一方面一本字典列出“e”拼写作为选择，但说明用途 评断 通过援引句子例子使用 评断， 正确拼写。 它也定义了 评断 狭窄地，说它是“法律文件陈述一个司法观点的原因”。
底线评断 是唯一的拼写，获得从法国词 jugement (使用的“e”，好奇地)。
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被审查的第二个校正的字词
没人可能指责作者我们的宪法是语法专家。 采取第二个校正，昨天的最高法院判决主题。 它读：
“一个很好被调控的民兵，是必要的对一个自由州的安全，权利人民保留和带有武器，不会被违犯”。
现在，忽略事实，在18世纪，居于经常的大写的名词为重点，句子仍然有结构问题。 它应该读， “一个很好被调控的民兵的是必要的….” 是 是动名词和必须由占有欲因而在之前。 并且，以后逗号 胳膊 从动词分离主题并且是一个真正的禁忌。
怎么样校正的意思？
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Credit Shakespeare With Oyster Supremacy
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
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AP Takes on the Blogosphere
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.
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Happy Friday the 13th, You Paraskavedekatriaphobiacs
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!
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Nothing to Do With English Grammar, But Useful
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.
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Congrats to Spelling Bee Champ Sameer Mishra
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:
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NOPEC Shows Government Garble at Its Standard Worst
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.
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Nice Use of Juxtaposition in Newspaper Story
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?
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