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French fries (potato slices fried in ostensibly French style) are back on the menu of cafeterias that cater to US lawmakers on Capital Hill...
I am crazy about English, spending 5-6 hours a day on my English study. But my weakness is spoken English.
This column is, unofficially at present, a vocabulary builder for the advanced learner, a social/lingual commentary via examination of words in the news.
In this sentence - "Our society and our literature and our culture are being dumbed down, and the causes are very complex" - what does "dumned down" mean?
In this sentence - "What I tell my clients is you just need to have a leap of faith in trusting the professionals" - what is a leap of faith? And, what does that sentence mean?
"Are both these sentences - 'He has a long way to go" and 'he has a ways to go' - correct English?"
Today, let's further examine the moral of Portia Nelson's autobiography in five short chapters (continued from Monday's column).
This article is inspired from a web chat with Li, from Beijing, who has lately been "thinking deeply about the power of language."
Putting a Chinese idiom into English gives translators a lot of headaches.
Scouts from the NBA describe the 2.36-meter Sun Mingming from China as a "giant prospect". Please tell me more about the word "prospect", is it the same as "hope".
In the intro to this story (Did Humans Cause Extinction of the Alaskan Horse? New Scientist, May 2, 2006) - A statistical evaluation of fossil findings suggests the Alaskan species may have vanished later than thought, meaning humans have no alibi.
Miami Heat Coach Pat Riley, who had just led the team to their first NBA championship in franchise history, was asked Friday (June 23, 2006) whether he would keep his 15-man team intact.
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