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- Sat Jun 19, 2010 6:31 am
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: Word describing common fruit feature
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8262
Re: Word describing common fruit feature
The calyx is the sepals - the outside of the bud. On apples and other pomes, the calyx and the stamen remain on the fruit, but on most fruit this is not the case. Pumpkins are pepos (berries with a hardened skin) and the flower is completely gone so the scar is not the calyx. These are going to be s...
- Sat Jun 19, 2010 6:06 am
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Very well-equiped
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2160
Re: Very well-equiped
I started to say: "She and some friends rent a big house." as that is a much better sentence, but it doesn't answer the question. Your original suggestion starts by answering the question but then tries to turn that into part of the next sentence, i.e. I'm expecting a period after "Some friends of h...
- Fri Jun 18, 2010 12:16 am
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: By your own last
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8333
Re: By your own last
Peach or cherry cobbler?trolley wrote: that cobblers use are called
- Mon May 24, 2010 4:24 am
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Always beautiful
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4482
Re: Always beautiful
"... and especially that God will always blesse s you."
- Mon May 17, 2010 11:58 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: take someone for money
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3182
Re: take someone for money
They can "take you for a ride" or they can "take you to the cleaners", but what you said is a mixed metaphor. ;-)
- Wed Apr 21, 2010 6:17 am
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Geomancy
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2170
Re: Geomancy
Things are not "on" a direction. They can be facing a direction or perhaps aligned with a direction. Geomancy is an uncommon word and the source I found on it doesn't seem to cover this type of prediction. Perhaps it's something more like feng shui? Which direction does your house face? East. Why do...
- Mon Mar 29, 2010 2:57 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Male/Female
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3186
Re: Male/Female
I now have this image in my head of Erik stationed outside the gents asking for credentials:
"Is this a salad fork or a dessert fork? ... That's incorrect! It's out in the alley for you!"
"Is this a salad fork or a dessert fork? ... That's incorrect! It's out in the alley for you!"
- Tue Mar 16, 2010 2:05 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: To conceive
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3338
Re: To conceive
What is the purpose of "also" in the second sentence? Has the husband done something else?
- Wed Mar 03, 2010 6:54 am
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Talk and laugh
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1940
Re: Talk and laugh
You probably really needed that rest after driving for 7 hours on an island that's only 40 miles across. ;-) Let's pick a different destination. There's a little bit of awkwardness between "my vacation" and "our car", but that's more of a problem between you and your girlfriend than one of grammar. ...
- Sun Feb 28, 2010 6:56 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Auto racings
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2019
Re: Auto racings
Are motorcycles a social evil by themselves or do you mean that motorcycle and auto racing (the racing of both cars and motorcycles) is a social evil? Racing shouldn't be plural. I don't think motorcycles and auto racing, or motorcycle and auto racing could be classified as a social evil when phrase...
- Sat Feb 20, 2010 1:09 am
- Forum: Addicts' Corner
- Topic: The Negative power of Communications
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3764
Re: The Negative power of Communications
... and blow things up and get lots of publicity like the Unibomber.hsargent wrote: Life was so much simpler when you could live in a cabin in the woods ...
- Wed Feb 17, 2010 7:10 am
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: I wish I knew what I know now
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3680
Re: I wish I knew what I know now
The complete line is:
I wish that I knew what I know now
When I was younger.
The order is not one that would be used in conversation but this is poetry.
I wish that I knew when I was younger what I know now. Better?
I wish that I knew what I know now
When I was younger.
The order is not one that would be used in conversation but this is poetry.
I wish that I knew when I was younger what I know now. Better?
- Sun Feb 07, 2010 6:59 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Just text me
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2847
Re: Just text me
Both are formal in register and somewhat stilted both in grammar and word choice (arrive, secure) which seems unsuited for the situation. "just" doesn't fit for me. Is the person saying "Don't call me, just text me."? Or did you mean something like "quickly" by it like "As soon as you get home, text...
- Fri Jan 29, 2010 1:39 am
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: what I'm on about with him
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6228
Re: what I'm on about with him
"going on" is a phrasal verb.
- Sun Jan 24, 2010 7:41 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: simple present tense with "this is the first time"
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5465
Re: simple present tense with "this is the first time"
In American English, 3 is also standard. I don't think anyone would say 2.
1 is possible if someone asked "Are you playing this game for the first time?", but that's not the most common way to ask: "Have you played this game before?".
1 is possible if someone asked "Are you playing this game for the first time?", but that's not the most common way to ask: "Have you played this game before?".