Gem
Tue, 4 Dec 2007 04:35:36 -0800 (PST)
I hope this is the right place to be asking this question:
Many newsagents in Ireland (and Wales, so far as I can see) are called
"the Gem". I am wondering why that is, what it the origin of the
word, and its meaning?
I hope someone here can enlighten me.
TIA
Cat(h) ...
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Translation device design project
Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:31:29 -0000
Hello,
I am student at Western Washington University working on an industrial
design project. The goal is to design a translation device.
I am looking for people to participate in the design process. I have
created a web site where users can help design this translation
device. Participants can leave stories ...
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Vision express and the word 'exam'
Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:05:19 -0000
Vision express now uses the term "eye exam" instead of "eye
examination"...which is correct? I still use eye test.
Steve
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Personality Test
Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:01:01 -0500
This is a very short and interesting test. You got to have a pen and
paper ready.
http://memoriter.net/flash/test.html
Enjoy!
NJ ...
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Tutoring immigrants? Teaching ESL?
Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:40:35 -0000
Are you looking for a quality conversation book?
Ask more. Know more. Share more.
Create Compelling Conversations.
That's the motto of my new ESL book called Compelling Conversations:
Questions and Quotations on Timeless Topics - An Engaging Textbook for
Advanced ESL Learners. You can download free chapters a ...
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Bonjour ~ Hello !! <^ojo^>
Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:00:58 -0000
Beta Language/Friendship Forum, free to participate
Bridging the culture gap...linking continents, bonding...
... With 1,000+ members
... Your INVITATION
Go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FrenchEnglishTutor
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- Help teach the Fren ...
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new interactive online dialect survey
Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:38:57 -0000
Dear linguists and other lovers of the English language:
My new online survey of world English varieties is now available
online at
http://www.ling.cam.ac.uk/survey/.
This survey differs from my previous Harvard and UWM surveys in a few
important ways:
1. It maps the responses using the google maps engine, ...
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Re: optimal vs. optimized [was: Re: string concatentation...]
Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:41:56 -0700
> Even though you are using the news client of the clueless,
> groups.google.com, you can avoid being tarred with that brush if you
> learn how to use it. One of the most important is to snip away all but
> those sections of the original post except those necessary and germane
> to you response. Quoting the wh ...
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Re: optimal vs. optimized [was: Re: string concatentation...]
Sat, 13 Oct 2007 03:31:54 -0700
On Oct 5, 2:10 pm, vocabulary <vocabular...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 2, 1:42 am, Michele Dondi <bik.m...@tiscalinet.it> wrote:
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> > Note: crossposted to some supposedly relevant groups. If anyone has
> > better ones to suggest, then they're welcome.
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> > For people reading this outside of clpmisc ...
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Description of facial expression
Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:34:31 -0000
I am looking for an apt description of the expression on this child's
face:
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s173/Maestro_50/baby.jpg
I don't think it is a pout, nor a scowl. "Unhappy" is too generic.
What is it? Disgust?
--
Maestro
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