surrounded by land, in the midst of an expanse of land" (but in reference to the body of water between Europe and African the sense probably was "the sea in the middle of the earth"); frommedius"middle" (from PIE root*medhyo-"middle") +terra"land, earth" (from PIE root*ters-"to...
If you are the parent of teens – or work with young people – you may feel alienated from their world due to the words and phrases they use. Every generation has its unique expressions but today’s youth seem to have more teen slang than ever before, mainly due to the minefield of te...
1. (press) frm his parents, the by is determined t stp playing cmputer games.2. While (press) the red buttn, I ntice smething strange. 3. It is bvius that the man is under great (press). 4. Extra lessns n Sundays put mre (press) n students, wh already have lts f hmewrk...
but I have to admit that my main association with Longfellow, until then, was a bearded gentleman in the “Authors” card game that I played when I was a kid. (And oh yes, didn’t he write
that the apparent discontinuity between the (alleged) two types of syntax is only a consequence of the architecture of the connection in human language between 1 Henceforth I will deal with the sense-sound relation in particular, in that the articulatory- auditory modality is the most common in...
I could feel my face turning red at that moment. Then one of the kids broke the ice. “Man!You have one BIG nose!” I felt hurt and didn't know what to say. I wanted to cry, but I managed a little smile—as it didn't hurt me at all. But it did. From then on,I would ...
As I am writing this piece of non-sense, two motivations suddenly prompted me for this because I didn’t intentionally write this down. First, my head has been full of words, thoughts, disappointments, hopes, etc, for the past six months. So much the noise that I need more hours of ...
Especially if they are no longer logical .Unfortunately , there is very little that anyonecan do for it , because there's no group of people who can change or have the right to change the English language for everyone . However, the only thing we can do is make changesin the way we ...
Bill Stetz made it four, as we got up to leave –“I like your hat.” The hat’s the same. Have I changed? Has my head flattened? It was the kind of day when everything I could think of went the way it should go, along with a whole rittle and rattle of happenings that I h...
He plops the TV Guide near ‘my nest’ and I immediately go through and remove all advertisements that have been inserted throughout. I give them a quick once over in case another offer (too good to be true) for extending my TV guide reading enjoyment past 2030-hahaha. The mighty Hawk...